TOP-27 - what to visit in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk region

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Verkhnyaya Pyshma is a satellite city of Yekaterinburg, which in recent years has earned the right to be called a completely independent municipal entity. The head office of the country's largest copper processing holding is based here. The key activity of the municipality is industry; 21 enterprises are located here. In addition, the city is famous for one of the best museums of military and automotive equipment in Russia.

Copper ore and lizard are traditional symbols of the Urals

Photo: Vladislav Lonshakov, Kommersant

Story

The first settlement on the site where the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma is now located appeared around the 30s of the 18th century. Among the first inhabitants of Pyshma there were many Old Believers. They were engaged in coachmanship and mining on the “great Verkhoturye road.” In 1854, the Pyshminsko-Klyuchevskaya copper mine was opened here, and two years later a small copper smelter grew up next to it, which became a city-forming enterprise. However, by the beginning of the 20th century, ore reserves were depleted. The city’s “second wind” began in 1929 with the start of construction of the Pyshminsky copper-electrolyte plant. In 1958, the Pyshminsky pilot plant was launched. In 1946, the workers' village of Pyshma was transformed into the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma. In 1997, based on the results of a referendum, the municipal formation “Verkhnyaya Pyshma” was created.

Development of the territory

The founding date of the settlement is considered to be 1701. According to archival documents, the first inhabitants of the village of Pyshma were coachmen and ore miners. Among them were many Old Believers who fled persecution from the central provinces. In this village, travelers departing along the Great Verkhoturskaya Road from Yekaterinburg to Verkhoturye, through Nevyansk and Nizhny Tagil, made their first stop. Here they fed or changed horses before a long journey. For travelers coming from the north, this was the last stop before the civilized world.

The impetus for the development of the region was a Senate decree of 1812, allowing all Russian subjects to search for and develop silver and gold mines with the payment of taxes to the treasury. Already in 1814, the first gold deposits were discovered in the upper reaches of the Pyshma River.

Geography

Verkhnyaya Pyshma is a satellite city of Yekaterinburg. It is located 1 km north of the metropolis. In the north it borders with the Rezhevsky district, in the east - with Berezovsky, in the south - with Yekaterinburg, in the west - with the Nevyansky district. The urban district includes 24 settlements, including 20 towns, two villages and two hamlets. The total area of ​​the urban district is 105.2 thousand hectares. The natural resources of the urban district include a large number of lakes and rivers, deposits of granite, peat, brick clay and sapropel.

Bottom line

Verkhnyaya Pyshma can already be called a city with developed infrastructure. The city has everything you need for life - new houses, places for leisure, a park, educational and sports institutions for children. They are trying to solve the environmental problem - there are not many industrial cities without environmental problems.

The city has a strategy that apparently works - because all this is reflected in population growth, despite the fact that it is only 14 kilometers from here to the center of Yekaterinburg, and people could simply leave en masse, as happens in other satellite cities.

Power

The city has a two-headed government system. The city and the Duma are headed by Alexander Romanov. The administration of Verkhnyaya Pyshma has been headed by Ivan Solomin since August 2022. According to the structure of the administration, five people work in the positions of deputy heads of administration. The first deputy oversees investment policy and development of the territory. The remaining deputies deal with social issues, housing and communal services, transport and communications, economics and general issues. The city district Duma consists of 20 deputies who are elected for five years. The last time Duma elections were held was in 2013.

Honorary citizens[ | ]

Among the honorary citizens of Verkhnyaya Pyshma[42][43]:

Budget

Revenues of Verkhnyaya Pyshma for 2022 amounted to 3.5 billion rubles, expenses - 3 billion rubles. According to the latest data for 2022, revenues will amount to 3.2 billion rubles, expenses - 3.3 billion rubles. In September 2017, the government of the Sverdlovsk region approved the program for the comprehensive development of Verkhnyaya Pyshma for 2017–2022. It is planned to allocate 48 billion rubles for its implementation, of which 26 billion will come from extra-budgetary sources (mainly due to investments from the city-forming enterprise).

Industry The leading link in the city's economy is industry, represented by 21 large and medium-sized enterprises. The main activity - copper production - is concentrated in the work of UGMK-Holding LLC. It is the largest producer of copper, zinc, coal and precious metals in the country. It unites more than 40 industrial enterprises. The city-forming enterprise, Uralelectromed JSC, carries out a full production cycle. Ural Locomotives LLC (affiliated with the Sinara group) specializes in the production of railway locomotives. OJSC Uralredmet specializes in the production of rare and rare-earth metals. JSC Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant, part of the group, specializes in the production of technical products from precious metals. In addition, in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, UMMC launched the production of cow and goat milk, cheeses and the cultivation of open ground vegetables. UGMK-Agro LLC specializes in this.

Memorials, monuments and obelisks[ | ]

Memorials and monuments
Memorial "Square of Military Glory" (intersection of Krivousov and Mendeleev streets)

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• Victory Memorial,
• Eternal flame,
• Martyrology with the names of the Verkhnepyshmin residents who died in the Great Patriotic War and died in the post-war period (2 slabs),
• T-34-85 tank and two anti-tank guns,
• Airplane I-16,
• Memorial to participants in local conflicts,
• Sculpture "Grieving Mother";

Memorial to the workers of PEMZ, Rudnik and the processing plant who died during the Great Patriotic War (Lenin St., 1)

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• Two steles with cranes,
• Eternal flame,
• Five memorial tables with the names of the deceased factory workers,
• An arched inclined volumetric base on which the steles are mounted,
• Two Soviet M-30 howitzers from WWII;

Memorial to the victims of political repression (intersection of Krivousov and Alexander Kozitsyn streets)

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• Two stone steles,
• 10 stone slabs with the names of those repressed,
• Cast iron lantern,
• 11 geometric figures connected to each other by metal ceilings;

• Stele to UZHR workers who died during the Great Patriotic War (Lenin St., 131);
• Stele to the workers of the Refractory Plant who died during the Great Patriotic War (Ogneuporshchikov St., 1);
• Stele to POZ workers who died during the Great Patriotic War (Petrova St., 53);
• Memorial stone with a commemorative inscription about the founding of the Ivanovskaya mine (the intersection of Sovetskaya St. and Lenin St.);
• Monument to the heroes of the civil war near the Church of the Assumption (under restoration until the summer of 2014);

Monument to the outstanding scientist Vladimir Efimovich Grum-Grzhimailo (installed in July 2013[41]);

• Monument to Vladimir Lenin;
• Monument to composer Tchaikovsky;
• The sculpture “Loving Hearts” in front of the registry office;
• Sculptures of a bear and a moose near the Sports Palace.

Memorial plaques

• Hero of the Great Patriotic War Yu. E. Spitsyn (Spitsyn St., 9);
• Hero of the Great Patriotic War M. I. Talykov (Talykov St., 7);
• Hero of the Great Patriotic War M.I. Talykov (48 Krivousov St.);
• Hero of the Great Patriotic War A. A. Chistov (Chistov St., 1);
• To the Hero of the Great Patriotic War V. A. Danilchenko (corner of Danilchenko St. and Petrova St., 38);
• To the Hero of the Great Patriotic War Danilchenko V. A. (?);
• Hero of the Great Patriotic War V. G. Feofanov (Feofanova St., 4);
• Evacuation hospital No. 9744 (Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 6);
• Teachers and students of school No. 1 who gave their lives for their Motherland (Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 6);
• Students of school No. 1 who gave their lives for their Motherland (Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 6);
• Students of secondary school No. 1 who gave their lives for their homeland (Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 6);
• Writer Voloskov V.V. (Oktyabrskaya st., 7);
• Hero of Socialist Labor P.V. Glushkov (Krasnoarmeyskaya st., 3);
• To the manager of the Pyshminsko-Klyuchevsky mine, F. F. Syromolotov (Syromolotov St., 106);
• Pyshminsko-Klyuchevsky copper smelter (Sovetskaya st., 2);
• To the first chairman of the volost executive committee, M. S. Petrov (Petrova St., 57);
• People's Commissar of Heavy Industry Ordzhonikidze S. (Lenin St., 1);
• To the chief physician of the infectious diseases hospital, B.V. Freidlin (Baltymskaya st., 19);
• Olympic champion, World and Soviet Union champion in skiing, Honored Master of Sports of the Soviet Union K. S. Boyarskikh (Komsomolskaya st., 39);
• To the first head of the copper smelting shop of Uralelectromed JSC, M.E. Medvedevsky (Lenin St., 1, copper smelting shop of Uralelectromed JSC);
• Director of JSC "Uralelectromed" 1934-1937 Ilyina I. A. (Lenin St., 1, copper smelting shop of JSC "Uralelectromed");
• Hero of Socialist Labor B. A. Krivousov, director of the Uralelectromed plant in 1970-1982 (Lenin St., 1, copper smelting shop of Uralelectromed JSC).

Population

As of January 2022, the population in the urban district was 84.1 thousand people. More than 70 thousand people live in the city. Interestingly, industrial development has significantly increased the population. According to the 1939 census, almost 13 thousand people lived in the city, and in 1946 - 47.8 thousand people. The unemployment rate at the end of 2022 was 1%. About 500 people were declared unemployed. The average salary, as of March 2022, is over 31 thousand rubles.

Population[ | ]

As of January 1, 2022, in terms of population, the city was in 224th place out of 1,116[24]cities of the Russian Federation[25].

Tourism

The main point of attraction for tourists in Verkhnyaya Pyshma is the UMMC Museum of Military Equipment, which opened in 2005. In 2010, the Museum was visited by 53 thousand people, in 2022 - 214 thousand people. This is one of the world's largest museums of the history of military and automotive technology. The complex includes two exhibition centers and an open exhibition area. The collection includes more than 5.7 thousand exhibits, including 400 samples of military equipment and more than 250 cars, motorcycles, bicycles and other vehicles. In 2011, the Museum of Military Equipment received the status of a public branch of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The Museum of Automotive Technology is currently closed due to moving to a new building. One of the favorite recreational areas of the townspeople is the UMMC park. Its area is more than 46 thousand square meters. m. The territory is divided into several recreation areas.

Urban environment

Verkhnyaya Pyshma has become one of 47 municipalities of the Sverdlovsk region, on the territory of which a priority project to create a comfortable urban environment will be implemented. The largest project - improvement of the boulevard on Uspensky Prospekt - could cost the municipality 200 million rubles. A preliminary design for the next stage of improvement of the city park is currently being prepared. Options for an integrated approach to improvement in the village of Kedrovoye and other settlements are also being considered.