Zlatoust is the most beautiful city in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia. The total area of more than 136.4 square kilometers, and a population of 172,892 people (from the population's population reassessment in 2012). Zlatoust can proudly wear the honorary title: One of the most picturesque, beautiful in terms of nature, and climatically favorable city in the Urals. With a beautiful, and even tragic history: The first Russian temporary settlement in the territory of modern Chrysostom arose at the end of the XVII century in connection with attempts to search for gold. In 1664, the old man Lot from the Dalmatovsky Uspensky Monastery under torture admitted that he made a trip to the South Urals, during which he was informed that on the Irtyash Lake there is a smelting of gold and silver mined on the "Siberian mountain" in the upper reaches of Ufa, Yaika and Gadaya. In 1668-1674 a large military-geological expedition was equipped, consisting of more than 1 thousand people with guns and equipment, which in 1672 built the Novo-Uralsky island in the area of the present Taganay park. This island became the first Russian settlement on the territory of the modern Chelyabinsk region. However, the geological investigations ended in complete failure, as the chronicle says in the following words: "Nothing has been found, and the state treasury has a great vanity and perdition has perished. After the failure of the little islands was abandoned for a long time. In 1708 the story of the "Siberian" mountain was accidentally found in documents of the Siberian province chancellery and reported to the secretary of Peter I by AD Makarov. VN Tatishchev was instructed to verify information on silver ore. In the 1720s a new expedition, working at the ruins of the small island, did not find metal in the local ore. In 1741 a new expedition arrived to the ruined island, which discovered iron ore there and chose a site for the construction of the Zlatoust plant.
Zlatoust was founded in 1754 at the same time as the ironworks and was named after St. John Chrysostom.
The decree of the Berg College on August 31, 1754 says [the source did not specify 1,240 days, that under the contract of 1751 the plant was "ordered to rename and write Zlatoustovsky." Thus, the name of the plant was received long before construction began. It is named for the Byzantine church figure, the preacher of the Christianity of John Chrysostom (circa 350-407), but the motives for choosing a name are not entirely clear. According to local historians [the source does not indicate 1,240 days, the image of John Chrysostom was a family icon of the family of the founder of the factory of the businessman Mosolov. The references in the literature to the appearance of the name of the plant and the city after the erection of the church in the name of John Chrysostom are based on conjectures and do not have a documentary base. In 1903 in Zlatoust, a meeting of workers was shot.
