Nytva

Nytva takes its name from a river whose Komi name means “green water.” A village at the river's mouth was recorded in 1623, while a settlement on the site of the later town appears in a census of 1647 with five households. In 1756 Maria Stroganova founded a copper works on the Nytva, where a pond was formed for the plant. By the late 1780s the works had turned to ironmaking and rolling. A landing and shipyard at the river mouth served the enterprise, which made anchors and hammers.