For a long time Russia did not have its domestic gold, and took it as a reward for military campaigns. But soon it was discovered that Russia, too, has its gold reserves. The first mine was discovered in Karelia, namely Nadvoitsy.

Voitsky mine is located on the right bank of the Lower Vig, but rather at its source on the peninsula, almost completely surrounded by water. The peninsula rises Voitskaya mountain height of 14 meters; it consists of shale and cracked crevice on the east side length of 80 meters. That crevice was held quartz vein. It can be found: talc, pyrite, copper green and blue, ocher, native copper, gold and mirrored spar.

Taras Antonov, who nadvoychaninom, got a couple of pieces of ore, and presented them to the office of mountain plants in Petrozavodsk in 1737, to find a place of extraction of ore. Five years later, namely in 1742, work began on the production of copper ore veins found, and, it is not expected that here there is also gold. Extracted ore is delivered to the smelters Olonetsk.

After a couple of years, knowledgeable and experienced people paid attention to the expensive metal in the vein, and already November 21, 1744 Empress Elizabeth was taken a sample of ore, which had a total gold mine Voitskogo. December 15 the same year the Empress approved new search for gold. This was first discovered gold mining in Russia. Only in the next year in the Urals were found Berezovsky state-owned gold mining based in 1752.

On Voitskom mine it was built tolcheyno-swilling factory, located just below the flow of the river, near the waterfall on the left bank. Factory possessed jostling for grinding ore and washing it to the cradle. On the location of the mine was sent Andreyan Shamshev who conducted an intensive investigation of the ore. April 1, 1745 Elizabeth had sent 12 samples containing in its composition of gold, whereupon the Empress decree of April 19 decided to appoint Mr Shamsheva chief commander of the mine. However, she pointed out that a necessary measure in the works is the care workers during the search, leaving the mine. In addition, the mine was kept under close supervision of the head of the seal and seal.

Soon, in 1756 Voitsky mine was put on top of Nerchinsk expedition, which was then engaged in the mining of precious metals and settled in St. Petersburg. Gold mining is conducted is particularly difficult, because most of the washed out by the river Vig, required a lot of effort in order to implement that pumping, which employed 42 people.

A few years later the expedition concluded Nerchinsk loss of jobs at the mine, but the Senate did not agree with this, and the work continued. Later, in 1770, Catherine II issued a decree on cessation of work on Voitskom mine. But the decree does not prohibit taking mine in its content to private entrepreneurs. The mine was completely closed for lack of proposals, and the workers were transferred to different plants in Petrozavodsk. Nadvoitsky peasants were tasked to closely monitor the appearance of the buildings at the mine.

In 1772, control of the mine was transferred to Alexander Glatkovu, is a graduate of Moscow University. He hired miners, Glatkov organized work on pumping water using manual work, and three months later the desired result was achieved. Then the workers began to punch the way in mines. Over 1773 it was produced 4 kg of gold. Success accompanied Glatkovu by creating a drainage horse car, built in 1774. It was in this period were produced the largest nuggets weighing from 400 grams to 1355 grams and who were sent to St. Petersburg.

Since 1772 tolcheyno-swilling factory was restored, but soon again stopped. Over time, I came to the conclusion that the core has developed. More than once attempted to mining gold, but the expected results is not vaccinated. In 1794, the Empress decided to completely terminate the mine.

For all the time in the Karelian mine was found 74 kg of gold, which was created by a large number of fine jewelry.