The village of Teplaya Gora, Perm region: between Europe and Asia

On the border of the Sverdlovsk region and the Perm region, near the Koiva river, a small settlement with a population was lost, in 2016, about three thousand people - the Warm Mountain. The Perm region, where the settlement is located is rich in various minerals. The village is unremarkable in appearance, but has a rich history and cultural heritage.

History of settlement

The village of Teplaya Gora (Perm region) is located in the Middle Urals on its western slope near the Koiva River (the tributary of the Chusovaya River).

On January 8, 1880, papers were drawn up and signed, on the basis of which Count Pyotr Pavlovich Shuvalov began to build a cast-iron works at his own property, owned by the Biser dacha.

Planned production of pig iron in the amount of 300 thousand poods (4,914,000 kg) per year. In February, permission was received to build the plant, and in June Count Shuvalov personally visited the plant and laid a new blast furnace. The plant was built 3.5 km from the Teplogorskaya railway station, on the Warm Mountain, near the Koiva River. In May 1881, during a drought, a fire broke out and the plant burned down, and in 1884 it was rebuilt, and cast iron melting began to be produced in an eight-furnace blast furnace.

Until they built the Gornozavodskaya railway, the plant's products were floated along the Koiva River, through Chusovaya to the Kama. And ore (brown iron ore) to the enterprise was delivered from two mines - Teplogorsky and Gorevoznesenskogo.

For the operation of the blast furnace, charcoal was required. To produce it, not far from the factory, dozens of special furnaces were built, in which charcoal was produced. In winter, in a sleigh fashion, he was brought to the factory in the amount necessary before the next winter. Coal was stored in special barns.

The factory changed the owners. In 1918 the enterprise was nationalized. During the Patriotic War, he served in the defense industry of the Soviet Union. But in the postwar years the blast furnace was too worn out, and the factory was re-qualified for the production of consumer goods. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, foundries could not withstand competition with foreign producers, and the plant was declared bankrupt.

Name of the settlement

There is such a story that the village got its name due to the weight of dragging various cargoes up the mountain, to the railway station, since it is located on the mountainside, and the railway station is higher. The peasants, with the load on their horses, had to go up to the station. After a heavy ascent even in winter, it was hot, and, with a heavy sigh, the cabmen said: "Oh, and a warm mountain!" Hence the name - the village of Warm Mountain.

The Perm Territory, and in particular Gornozavodsky district, where the settlement is located, is rich in natural beauty and forests.

Industry

Now the main occupation for the local population is the forest industry and the production of building materials. OAO "Teplogorsky Lespromkhoz" and JSC "Teplogorsky rubble combine" are working. The crushing plant feeds the Teplogorsky quarry located a few kilometers away.

The warm mountain (Perm region) is the source of labor for the crushed stone plant and quarry. The time of full development of the latter is about 40 years. His gabro-diabase breed has unique qualities and is the only one in Russia.

Attractiveness for tourists

Near the Warm Mountain was found the first diamond in Russia. In 1829, a 14-year-old boy found him. Now here stands a memorable stone, and the place is called the Diamond Key.

In the center of the town there is a memorial to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War who left for the front from the Teplohorsky railway station. They were workers of the plant, and many of the Urals. Soldiers subsequently formed Guards Red Banner Order Suvorov Zvenigorod-Berlin Division, took part in battles on the Kursk Dug and in the Battle of Stalingrad.

A memorial to the victims of the civil war and casting workers from a factory damaged in the blast furnace explosion in 1941 can be mentioned among the memorials.

In Warm Mountain there is the Children's Sports School of Oriental Orienteering Reserve, the House of Culture (in which there is a library, a museum, a gym). Also in the village there is a closed special school for children with deviant behavior.

Near the Warm Mountain and 9 km from the village of Promyslly, on the way to Kachkanar, there is a stele "Europe-Asia", built in 2003, 16 meters high. On top of the structure there is a two-headed eagle, and below, at the sides, a griffin and Lion, symbolizing Europe and Asia.

In the town, tourists often stop before traveling along the rivers Koiva and Vilve or to the Kolpaki mountain. The village is the last settlement before such hikes.