When Emelyan Pugachev and his army came to the Urals, the bulk of the mining workers stood up to protect the Ural fortified factories from robbers, many of the workers later received awards for their loyalty. At that time, the mining people did not live as badly as it was described in Soviet times, there were even measures of social support for workers by the owners of factories. Pugachev failed to capture the Ural factories. There is a legend that during the retreat from the Urals, Emelka hid the stolen treasures in a secret cave of Mount Azov near the city of Polevskoy, the storyteller Pavel Bazhov wrote about this.→