Omutninsk

Omutninsk began as a settlement at an ironworks on the Omutnaya River. Construction started in 1773, and the first smelting was achieved in 1775. The works stood in the forested upper Kama country, where the river supplied power and the surrounding woodland provided resources for metal production. The factory village became one of several industrial settlements that developed in this part of the northern Vyatka region during the eighteenth century.