Study of factory settlements of the Perm region near the Kama river

Abstract

The formation in the Urals of domestic factory production, which began with the salt industry, as a fundamental fishery in the territory, was considered, and was fully realized in mining industrial metallurgy, which received a whole direction called «Mining civilization». This period gave rise to the spread of new types of settlements City-plants, which were formed around the enterprise, and the territory developed as originally industrial. However, the problem of preservation of some factory settlements and as such enterprises arose for the authorities of the former Molotov region (1940-1957) «Gordian knot», due to the construction of the Kama hydroelectric power plant and the creation of a reservoir, As a result, not only agricultural land and pastures, but also historical settlements, factory areas and many unexplored archaeological sites were flooded. Therefore, in this article the historical, cartographic analysis of former factory settlements was also conducted and the damage of flooding and flooding of territories was revealed, as well as the preserved heritage of «factory civilization».