There was also a handicraft industry in the city and county: tanneries, oil churns, mills and other small enterprises for processing agricultural raw materials.
The labor force, represented by landless peasant migrants from Central Russia, was unusually cheap.
After the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Novonikolaevsk (now Novosibirsk), the importance of water transport decreased and the economic role of the village in the region began to gradually fade away.
However, railway transport did not develop so quickly and the village remained a major grain transshipment point.
[16] At the suggestion of the anarchists elected to the Council, the issue of creating the Kamensk district federal republic was discussed.
The Barnaul detachment of Red Guard railwaymen, numbering up to 150 bayonets, was led by I. M. Tsaritsyn and M. A. Fomin.
By May 1918, Kamen's Red Guard detachment numbered about 300 fighters, but its main forces were sent to Transbaikalia to fight against the gangs of Ataman Semyonov.
A peasant uprising began in the village of Ust-Mosikha, organized by a local teacher, Bolshevik A. N. Danilov.
This action pursued not so much military as political goals: to show the increased power of pro-Bolshevik partisans.
In the afternoon, the Whites returned to the city, supported by one and a half thousand Poles, with two steamships, two cannons and machine guns.
The Red partisans and peasants retreated, capturing 400 rifles and looting warehouses with ammunition, uniforms, textiles and leather goods.
Soviet power in the city was restored on November 28, 1919 by partisan detachments and units of the regular Red Army that occupied Kamen.
In 1930, according to the project and under the leadership of Yuri Kondratyuk, a unique structure named "Mastodon" was built – the largest wooden granary in the world with a capacity of 13,000 tons.
From 1973 to 1983, the Kulunda Main Canal was built, designed to irrigate agricultural lands in the arid steppe of Altai Krai.
From the Kamen bus station, buses depart to Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Rubtsovsk, Slavgorod, Bayevo, Tyumentsevo, Zavyalovo and other settlements of the region.
The continental climate of Kamen-na-Obi is determined by its unique geographical location in southwestern Siberia.
Openness to the influence simultaneously from the Altai Mountains, the Arctic Ocean and the semi-desert regions of Central Asia creates the possibility of the arrival of air masses of different properties, which contributes to a significant contrast in weather conditions.
Kamen-na-Obi is characterized by frosty, moderately severe and little snow winters and warm, dry summers.
The construction and arrangement of a stone church on the site of a dilapidated wooden one was carried out with donations from merchants Vinokurov, Zorin, Pudovkin, Simonin and Chaigin.
In connection with the start of construction in 2006 of the second railway bridge across the Ob, the school moved to a new building on Pushkin Street.
Since May 2008, the Vinokurov and Sons trading house has been protected by the state as an architectural monument of federal significance.
66) and Komsomolskaya there is a beautiful two-story brick house of the merchant Pudovkin with a rounded corner shape.
At the address st. Lenina, 78 is the main building of the estate of the merchant Zorin (now the Office of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for Kamen-na-Obi and Kamensky District), also built in the eclectic style of the early 20th century.
On the second floor of the central facade there is a beautiful wrought-iron balcony; the windows are decorated with white brick ornaments.
Among the modern attractions, one can note the embankment, stretching along the river bank from Krasnoarmeyskaya Street to the city park.
Ivan Pyryev, (November 4 (17), 1901 – February 7, 1968) – Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor, teacher, public figure, People's Artist of the USSR (1948), laureate of six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1948 , 1951).