Kaga Settlement
It is supposed that the name of Kaga Settlement originated
from the name Kaga-Bai, who was the owner of the territory transferred
to the plants as a quit-rent.
 In
1758 the Berg-Collegium issued a permission to construct metallurgical
plants on the Kaga River and on the Uzyan River. In 1758 the
given area up to 90 desyatins (1 desyatina= 2.7 acre) was rented
from Bashkir tribes for a period of 30 years with annual rent
of 20 rubles. The terms of the above renting also stipulated
that later on this territory should not be given to anyone but
to Duke Shuvalov and his descendants or to the plant with the
same rent for the same period of time. Then the plants were
given up to the collegiate assessor Matveev and after that in
1760 to Demidov, who built two more Avzyan plants there.
The plant on the Kaga River was targeted at forging cast iron
made at plants in Avzyan and Perovskoe settlements. In 1830
the ownership for the plants was transferred to Major-general
Pashkov.
In 1837 a litigation between Bashkir tribes occupying Tamynskaya
Volost and Tamgaurovskaya Volost and owners of Kaginsky and
Uzyansky plants. Further on the case was passed to the Martial
Board in St. Petersburg and in 1847 the Martial Board and the
Ministry of Finance ordered the Bashkir tribes to sell the necessary
area to the plants, as well as to give necessary amount of timber
from territories occupied by Bashkir. Construction of the plants
caused wood around the plants being cut down quite actively.
 In
1845 a school was opened in Kaga Settlement. Two wooden churches,
a plant, a dam and brickworks had already been built there by
that time. A church built of bricks manufactured on the works
is still in Kaga Settlement.
By the end of the XIX th century, when Ivan Asafovich Tatarionov
was the manager, a hospital, sanctified in 1904, and a club
had been constructed in the settlement.
 The
way of life in the settlement changed abruptly when on the 18th
of July 1911 a great fire started because of an inflammation
in the building owned by the landlord Sysoev. It took only several
hours for the fire to destroy the whole settlement. Almost 500
landlords with their families turned out to be homeless. The
plant, the dam, the club, the church, shops at the plant, barns,
building where the works management had been located and all
documents burnt down to the ground. People had to move to other
villages and this brought active life in Kaga Settlement to
an end.
Nowadays people living in Kaga Settlement work in the Kaga
Forestry of the Avzyan Timber Industry Enterprise, in the Industrial
and Peasant Union Pobeda, at the Kaga section of the Beloretsk
Electric Networks Bashkirenergo, at the hydro installation in
Kaga Settlement, on the local section of the Beloretsk Administration
for Road Renovation and Construction, at the tourist base Agidel,
in the club, in the school, in the post office, in the ambulatory,
in the shop and in the local administration.
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