Kholunitsky

Belaya Kholunitsa grew around the Novotroitsky Kholunitsa ironworks, founded in 1764 on the river of the same name. Its future owner Savva Yakovlev bought several hundred serf peasants in Novgorod and Vologda provinces to supply labor for construction. In September 1764 the river was dammed with a wooden structure, creating a pond for the works. The Belaya Kholunitsa flows to the Vyatka, placing the factory settlement within the waterways of the northern Vyatka country.