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Famous writer Alexey Ivanov will present his new book "The Nizhny Tagil Tower" at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg. The presentation will take place on February 27. The novel by the laureate of the literary awards "Big Book" and "Yasnaya Polyana" describes the operation of the Demidov factories, the structure of mining life in the Urals, and the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society, reports Radio Orpheus.

The action of the novel takes place in 1735 at the Nizhny Tagil factory. Against the backdrop of the protagonist's life events, a fire demon appears in the city, perceived as a threat to the factory workers.

The Nizhny Tagil Tower is a historical leaning tower from the early 18th century, built on the order of the industrialist Akinfiy Demidov. It is located in the city of Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk region and is considered a symbol of the Ural mining civilization.

Alexey Viktorovich Ivanov (born November 23, 1969, Gorky) is a Russian writer and screenwriter. He is a laureate of the Government of Russia's award in the field of culture (2017) and several other literary awards. He is known for his books about the Urals ("The Heart of Parma," "The Gold of the Rebellion," and others), as well as for the novel "The Geographer Drank His Globe Away," which was adapted into a film of the same name. The documentary film by Alexey Ivanov and Leonid Parfyonov "The Ridge of Russia" was shown on Channel One in 2010. In a 2015 interview, Alexey Ivanov stated that he is married and has a daughter.

Thanks to Ivanov, the theory of "mining civilization" entered Perm's cultural studies in the 2010s. Perm cultural studies candidate G. P. Ivinskikh noted that "the concept of mining civilization was first proposed" by P. S. Bogoslovsky, and then "the ideas of mining civilization were fruitfully developed" by L. V. Bankovsky, and in the 2000s, these ideas were "actualized, embodied in artistic form, and even 'visualized'" by writer Alexey Ivanov. Another Perm cultural scholar, N. I. Tyuleneva, in her dissertation on cultural studies, reports that "in the early 21st century, the ideas of P. S. Bogoslovsky resonated anew in the works of contemporary writer Alexey Ivanov."