Ekaterina Ivanovna Kozitskaya, née Myasnikova (1746 – 1833) was a Russian industrialist. She was the daughter and heir of the copper miner Ivan Semyonovich Myasnikov and married Grigory Kozitsky, one of the secretaries of Catherine the Great. She inherited the copper mines in Ust-Katav and elsewhere in the Urals. She managed the mines herself with great success and has been called the richest woman in 18th-century Russia.
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1746
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1833 (aged 86)
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