Lysva and Kyn

Last week, as part of the exit meeting of the Government of the Perm Territory, I visited the city of Lysva (administrative center of the Lysvensky district) and in the village of Kyn , in the same area, on the border with the Sverdlovsk region.

What is interesting there? In fact, both settlements are unique in their own way, and this must be told separately.

We started visiting the Lysvensky district with the village of Kyn. It is remarkable in that it is located in the center of the mining civilization-a special socio-economic (as well as cultural-political) community, which began to form in the Urals in the Urals in the XVIII century around metallurgical plants and industrial empires of the Stroganov, Demidovs and other mining centers at the junction of the current Perm and Sverdlovsk lands.

Kyn is unique in that he retained mining authenticity. There are still a lot of unique ones (they have already begun to restore) buildings, which used to place workshops and other factory spaces. I focus the reader’s attention that these are not factories in the usual understanding - with huge hangars, conveyor and factory building. This is completely different, so to speak, the early industrial world, which appeared on the map of Russia more than two hundred and fifty years ago, when there was no other industrialization (in the usual understanding).

The basis of buildings are log structures with the mandatory building of the hospital and the church. Another obligatory attribute of the mining village was a dam and a pond, which are now in Kyn, of course, have not been preserved, but their restoration is possible.

Why am I saying all this? And to the fact that a cultural and tourist cluster of enormous meaning can easily appear around Kyn. Kyn stands on the Chusovaya River - on the main camping artery of the Urals. Several tens of thousands of tourists a year are already rafting in Chusova, and the most beautiful places on Chusova are located around Kyn. The task is that tourists in Kyn go ashore, so that they are interested in spending at least one day here. In my opinion, this task is completely solved.

In the ideological design of history around Kyn, I sincerely hope to participate in the famous Russian writer Alexei Ivanov , the largest specialist in the Urals and mining civilization.

There are plenty of prerequisites for a breakthrough in the creation of the center of mining civilization. It is no accident that the village of Kyn last year became one of the “Culture Centers of the Perm Territory” (we have such a grant program in the Ministry of Culture).

And in 2009, the “center” was the city of Lysva - the place is also very remarkable. The city also appeared as a mining village, but already in the "industrial empire" of the Shuvalovs. The unicorn from the coat of arms of Count Shuvalov migrated to the coat of arms of the Lysvensky district.
In Lysva, there is also something to see from the mining artifacts, but there are more modern cultural and tourist chips.

The Lysvensky Drama Theater is the pride of the Perm Territory. It is no accident that it was in him that Evgeny Mironov conducted and holds the All -Russian festival of theaters of small cities.

Even at the Lysvensky metallurgical plant, 10 million army helmets were produced during the Great Patriotic War - throughout the Red Army. Now the Museum of Hocks is opened in Lysva, where, in addition to the Soviet ones, you can see the helmets of all the main armies of the world.

Lysva also produced enameled dishes, which was seen by everyone who lived in the USSR . I knew this fact before, but it really struck me when last Friday I ended up in the house of creativity in Lysva. In the large hall of this institution, the ceiling is made of hundreds of enameled cans! Such a symbiosis of constructivism and postmodern. This ceiling simply struck me with his non -triviality.

In general, Lysva and Kyn are quite real candidates for turning into cultural and tourist flags of the whole region. Let us not forget that the Museum of the History of Political Repression of Perm -36 with its powerful system of meanings and international fame is still nearby.

In short, the cultural and tourist cluster can be very serious. Who cares - connect.

Z.Y. On Tuesday, this week I again went to Lysva.