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Pavlodar City Info
Pavlodar was founded by Siberian cossacks in 1720 as fort Koryakovskiy, named after the nearby lake where salt was mined. It remained a small cossacks' settlement well into the 19th century, focused on salt-mining, and slowly developing mining of lead, copper and silver. The growing trade finally resulted in 1861 in an upgrade to zashtatnyj (self-governing) town Pavlodar, meaning the Gift of Paul, in honor of the newly born Prince Pavel Aleksandrovich.