Nagorsk

Nagorsk was founded in 1595 in the wooded lands north of the Vyatka. Its countryside lies near the river network that joins the Belaya Kholunitsa to the Vyatka. Farther south, the Kholunitsa ironworks was established in 1764, drawing labor from peasants brought from other provinces. Nagorsk belonged to an older settlement landscape of the northern Vyatka country, amid the rivers and forests in which the later iron industry developed.