Sysert (city)

The city is located on the Sysert River, in the southern part of the Sverdlovsk Region , 43 km south of Yekaterinburg . Within the city, the Sysert River forms a vast Sysert Pond, which continues west and south outside the city. In the city there is a mountain peak Bessonova. Near Sysert there is a branch section of the federal highway M5 "Ural" from Chelyabinsk to Yekaterinburg . Turbine railway station (exclusively freight traffic) is connected by a production railway line to the Sysert station of the direction Yekaterinburg - Verkhny Ufaley - Chelyabinsk .

Sysert is a hydronym whose origin is not completely clear. According to one version, it comes from the Komi-Zyryan “si” - “hair”, “siort” - “river valley with a dense fir forest”, that is, “a river with a narrow forested valley”. Clarification: hydronym, but the origin is quite transparent, if we recall the Komi-Permyak language. “Sear” most likely comes from two words - “syv” (melt) and “sjöort” (valley, floodplain), which when added means “melt valley”, “melt floodplain”. It is not surprising that the Talitsa River is not so far from Sysert.

Sysert workers' settlement appeared in 1732 as a settlement at the ironworks on the Sysert River opened by order of V. de Gennin . In 1758, the plant was sold to A.F. Turchaninov . During the Pugachev uprising, the plant was able to fight off the attack of the detachment of Ivan Beloborodov .

On January 15 (27), 1879, the Russian writer P.P. Bazhov was born in Sysert.

The plant was owned by the dynasty of plant owners Turchaninov - Solomirsky until 1912. In 1912, one of the most significant strikes in the Urals took place at the plant, about which V. I. Lenin wrote in the article "Metalworkers' Strikes" in 1912.

In November 1925, the Sysert Plant (along with subsidiary facilities) was transferred to the concession of the English company Lena Goldfields Limited for a period of 50 years. However, in the summer of 1930, they left the plant, having failed to fulfill their obligations to the Soviet state .

Until 1932, the village of Sysert (a working village since 1928) was called the Sysert Plant .

10/31/1946 - By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, the working village of Sysert was transformed into a city of regional subordination.

04/05/1950 - By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR , the settlement of Verkhnyaya Sysert was allocated from the city line of Sysert and was assigned to the category of working settlements.

February 1, 1963 the city of Sysert was included in the Sysert industrial region ^[2] .

The modern line of the city was established on December 27, 2004 ^[3] .

As of January 1, 2019, in terms of population, the city was in 640th place out of 1,115 ^[18] cities of the Russian Federation ^[19] .

The turnover of enterprises and organizations in manufacturing in 2007 amounted to 7 billion rubles.

The main enterprises of the city of Sysert:

• Sysert Porcelain Factory LLC ^[20] .
• OJSC Uralhydromash ^[21] .
• LLC "Lime Sysert" [1] .
• LLC "Technosila" [2]

Despite the weak development of industry, the relative economic prosperity and population growth of the city are supported by 2 factors: good land around the city provides agriculture. The picturesque area with coniferous forests around the Sysert River and the Sysert Reservoir contribute to the active growth of cottage villages and recreation centers around the city and the purchase of land and the construction of expensive cottages provided by residents of Yekaterinburg.

Sysert Porcelain Factory

Since 1977, the city of Sysert is known as one of the centers of porcelain production in Russia and the largest porcelain production in the Urals , and Sysert porcelain - as one of the brands of the Urals and all of Russia . The craft originated in the middle of the 20th century on the basis of Sysert pottery and local traditions of artistic painting. Porcelain products are produced at the Sysert Porcelain Factory . The shape, style and painting of the products are completely based on national traditional ceramics, primarily on the centuries-old experience of local masters: their idea of ​​beauty is expressed in round, clear outlines of objects, in brushstroke painting, which is clearly preferred.

Sysert Porcelain Factory was founded in 1960 on the basis of a ceramic artel. In the 1970s, the plant acquired its unique style of painting utensils in the Ural House painting - a compositional motif “Sysert Rose”. The factory produces vases, dishes, figurines and souvenirs. Now the priority area for the plant is the manufacture of church iconostases from faience. Sysert iconostases adorn the temples of Verkhoturye , Nevyansk , Yekaterinburg and other cities of the Urals .

• Mount Bessonova (Besenovka, Besonova, Bessonova, Sleepless, Bes as the locals call it) with a 12-meter cast-iron Orthodox cross on top - one of the symbols of the city;
• Sysert Museum of History and Local Lore in the building of the Main Directorate of the Sysert Mountain District (1779);
• Memorial House-Museum of P. P. Bazhov, where P. P. Bazhov was born;
• Monument to the heroes of the Civil War ;
• In the historical center of the city, the complex of shops of the Sysert plant (1847-1900) was preserved;
• Cathedral of Simeon and Anna (1788), the former building of the "digital" school (1735);
• 6 km west of Sysert there is Talkov Kamen - a small lake (32 m deep) with the surrounding rocks at the site of a former talc mining quarry. The sides of the quarry are stacked with a greenish-white laminated talc stone.

• Bazhov, Pavel Petrovich (1879-1950) - Russian folk writer.
• Pantazi, Nikolay Yurievich (born 1946) - Soviet and Ukrainian coach; Honored Coach of Ukraine .
• Plekhanov, Alexander Nikolaevich (1932–2015) - Soviet state and party leader, first secretary of the Kurgan Regional Committee of the CPSU (1985-1990).
• Starkov, Dmitry Petrovich (1915-1986) - journalist, participant in the Great Patriotic War , major general .

• Rychkov A.V. 12 Travels in the Middle Urals . - Kid and Carlson, 2008 .-- 50 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9900756-1-0 . Archived February 23, 2014.
• Alexander Chumanov, Alexey Kozhevnikov, German Ivanov, Igor and Oleg Kaporeyko. Malachite province: Aramil, Polevskoy, Sysert, Degtyarsk: cultural and historical essays / ed. E. S. Zashikhin. - Yekaterinburg: Socrates, 2001 .-- 367 p. - (Ural: History in the faces of cities).

• Youth portal of the Sysert district "Fortochka"
• Spherical panoramas of Sysert aerial view
• Panorama of Sysert from Mount Bessonova
• Information portal of Sysert
• Sysert Online - city portal
• Internet version of the district newspaper Mayak, Sysert
• Sysert in the encyclopedia "My city"