The study of Latin, including translation and speech, was taught in the former, while the latter taught German and its translation, as well as "subjects close to technology, such as physics and mechanics." (98) Both Hennin and Tatishchev viewed the state factories' schools as important sites in the formation of skilled masters in manufacturing and as sources of new factory managers knowledgeable in clerical work and the mining sciences (gornoe delo).
Poberezhnikov, ed., Territorial'no-ekonomicheskoe upravlenie v Rossii XVIII--nachala XX veka: Ural'skoe gornoe upravlenie (Moscow: Nauka, 2008), 132.