Kirs

Kirs arose beside an iron foundry built in 1729 by the merchant Grigory Vyazemsky. The works took its name from the river, whose name has been related to Komi-Permyak words for a steep high bank or a river channel. The settlement formed part of the ironworking country of the upper Kama, where rivers and forest supplied water and fuel for works established in the eighteenth century. Its factory village developed around the foundry and the river from which it was named.