Chusovoy (village)

The village of Chusovoy of the municipality of the “ Shali Urban District ” is located 32 kilometers east-northeast of the village of Shalya (42 km along the highway), mainly on the left bank of the Chusovaya River, at the mouth of the left tributary of the Shaitanka River. In the vicinity of the village on the Chusovaya River there are rock outcrops, geomorphological and botanical natural monuments - Shilo, Mosin, Gardym, Shaitan and Mogilny stones ^[2] .

Shaitan Ironworks

The settlement arose at a sawmill, built in 1721. In 1727, Akinfiy Demidov founded the Shaitan Ironworks , which began forging iron by remaking Upper Tagil cast iron. The original name of the settlement was Staro-Shaytansky Zavod. In 1905, the plant was closed. A highway was laid along the dam, the drain was filled up, the canal was drained. In place of the gateway, arranged in the canal, there were remains of logs. A new gutter from the pond is set aside through the spillway shaft at the foot of the dam ^[2] .

Staroshaytanskaya marina

In the village there was Staroshaytanskaya marina, from which cricket iron was transported from the Shaitan ironworks to the Sylvensky plant , forged and returned back to the marina, from which iron was melted, including from Nevyansk , Verkh-Neivinsky , Rezhevsky and Verkh-Isetsky plants. To date, a canal with a width of 15 meters and a length of 200 meters has been preserved, along which loaded barges were lowered from the Shaitan pond to the Chusovaya river. Due to the laying of the West Ural Railway in 1915, the alloy of iron caravans was stopped ^[2] .

Post-war years

In Soviet times, a dairy farm and a tractor workshop worked in the village. In 1958, in the building of the caravan chief and factory manager, on the initiative of V. A. Semenov and M. V. Mezenina, a rural art gallery was opened ^[2] .

In 1840, a wooden, single-throne church was built, which was consecrated in 1840 in honor of the Nativity of Christ. The church was closed in 1937. In 1998, the Orthodox parish was restored ^[2] .

Chusovaya Festival of Russia is a festival promoting a project of the same name, the goal of which is to turn the Chusovaya River into a single tourist cluster, in which modern tourist complexes with a historical foundation will appear on the site of the former mining piers.

Catching fish by fishermen in fishing competitions, and the release of new carp fish into the pond, the struggle of sports swimmers with the water element, the spiritual foundations of the Russian Ivan tea ceremony, the education of children with labor skills and enthusiasm for what they have done with their own hands, songs of folk groups and bards in two festival venues, festival money, handicraft folk fair.

The project grew out of the annual festival "Chusovaya - the river of native", which has been held in the village of Chusovoy, Shali city district, Sverdlovsk region since 2001. In 2010, the festival acquired the status of interregional - the second festival site was the village of Kyn, Lysvensky municipal district of the Perm Territory. This year the festival celebrated its first anniversary - 10 years. During this time, a festival of local importance of the Shali city district grew into an inter-regional tourist festival with a rich cultural, sports and business program. Today, Chusovaya - the Rodnaya River is one of the most popular outdoor events held in the Sverdlovsk Region.

The Chusovaya Russia alloy festival is held annually on the first weekend of July in the village of Chusovoye (Shaitanka), Shali District, Sverdlovsk Region ^[4] .

• The historical mysteries of the village of Chusovoy // Chusovaya of Russia
• Chusovoye village and its 7 wonders worth visiting // Chusovaya Russia
• Photos of the Chusovaya river S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky, 1912 (from Staroutkinsk to Kyna) // Chusovaya, Russia