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Russian-German businessman Andrew Knauf is a remarkable person and an innovator in the Urals mining and metallurgical industry of the early nineteenth century, who made a positive impact on its development. The author examines the Knauf activities as the holder of the mining enterprises, modernized due to the transfer of Western technologies. His experience is interesting in the context of serfdom and the lack of qualified personnel in the existing system possessional factories. Traces the entrepreneur with the state interaction, and attempts to identify a real contribution to the production and the region development and the reasons for the Knauf failure. The author makes a fundamental difference between financial failure Knauf and its role in enterprises technical and social modernization, which became for some time the Ural growth and innovation leaders, directly influenced the steam engines in the state factories introduction.Knauf can be attributed to a new type of entrepreneur, socially responsible business.

Keller A.V. «Raison d'etat» and «private interest» in Russia in the late 18th century - early 19th century: the example of A. Knauf at metall industry in the Urals, 1797-1830 // Bylye Gody, 2015, Vol. 37, Is. 3. P. 508-518.