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Trading house of Agafurovi in Ekaterinburg

Founded in 1883 in Ekaterinburg, in 1903 trade house has branches in Perm, Tyumen, Irbit fair, and from 1912 - in Warsaw and Moscow. Agafurovs were wholesale-retail grocers, haberdashery, supplies, hardware goods, hunting goods, gold and silver goods, watches and other goods. Interesting fact that The most people are well known the expression "agafurovskiy villas". This name and is now called the psychiatric hospital in the Siberian tract. The merchants Agafurovi's mental health was all in order. The same expression is due to the fact that before the arrival of Soviet power in the pine forest on the Siberian route was a country cottage of merchants Agafurovi. When in 1914 on the 8-th kilometer of highway opened psychiatric hospital, they were given a binding "next to the cottage of Agafurovi". Soon the word "near" is erased, and the hospital in the people were called "Agafurovi villas".

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