ABSTRACT
The article highlights the activities of the Austrian mining engineer and statistics Johann von Herrmann (1755–1815), associated with the study of salt production in the Urals in the late 18th century. After the invitation to the Russia, a young engineer at the age of 27 years was sent to the Pyshminsky steel factory for inspection of state-owned industrial factories. Herrmann went to Ural several times, and the materials he collected during his first stay there in 1784–1795 were transferred to the academic archive. Thanks to this, we have invaluable information about the state of the Ural factories. One of the objects of study was salt production, concentrated in the Solikamsk district (Perm governorship). Archival papers of Herrmann contain information about the organization of salterns, the staff of employees and workers, the costs of organizing and maintaining salterns, the volume of products, methods of delivery to other governorates, etc.
