Vilva (Dobryansky district)

The population of the village is about a thousand people, the majority of the population are Russians , Tatars , Uzbeks , Belarusians , Ukrainians , Georgians and many other nationalities are also represented. The settlement merged territorially with the station settlement Bokovaya (about 250 inhabitants). The population in summer and winter varies greatly: in summer, many summer residents and just vacationers come to the village, in winter, in addition to them, a part of the indigenous population also travels to work.

• 1963 (2 578 people)

The village appeared in September 1953 as a village of loggers. The office of the timber industry enterprise was transferred to Vilva from the neighboring village of Tabory , and the village became the center of a large logging enterprise, uniting many logging centers of neighboring settlements under its leadership. By the mid 70's. The Tabor forestry enterprise (as it was called by its original location) has reached its highest development. Harvested wood and products of its processing ( lumber , charcoal , fir oil , etc.) were supplied throughout the region, as well as far beyond its borders. The period of the 80-90s. It was difficult for this (as well as for all the others) enterprises of the forest industry, but it survived it. Only at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries it went bankrupt and several enterprises were created on its basis, of which only one, LLC Knight, currently operates.

Currently, the village is the administrative center of the Vilvena rural settlement . There is a school, a kindergarten, an outpatient clinic, and several shops in Vilva. The largest enterprise in the village is Knight LLC, which is engaged in logging and processing of harvested wood. The village also has post offices, Sberbank, has its own automatic telephone exchange . The village is connected by a dirt road to the Perm - Berezniki highway, and a branch of the Sverdlovsk railway passes not far from Vilva.