 So Colonel Feodor Wenzel, the manager of the Goroblagodat and Kama plants, and Aleksey Alymov, the manager of Izhevsky Zavod ironworks, were forced to escape to Kazan.On January 1, 1774, a detachment of Yemelyan Pugachev's rebel army reached the town.The rebels destroyed the ironworks, burned its office buildings, and wrecked the houses of the managers.