METALLURGY AND METAL WORKING IN DAGHESTAN OF THE XIX CENTURY: FROM TRADITIONAL TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSORTMENT OF FORGING AND LOCKSMITH WORKS

The article is devoted to description of changes in traditional metallurgy of Daghestan in connection with the development of Russian industry in the first half of the ХIХ century, the development of new technologies of metal processing in the province (locksmith business, etc.). There is an expansion of directions in the assortment of metal products, which appeared in Daghestan in the second half of the XIX – the beginning of the XX centuries. Many processes are illustrated by examples from the craft history of the famous Harbuk blacksmith center.