Rezh

Rezh belongs to the eastern Ural river and forest country. Indigenous communities used the wider region long before the growth of Russian industrial settlements, while forests and water later became important resources for metallurgy.

In the 1770s entrepreneur Savva Yakovlev established an ironworks at Rezh. After his death, the works passed to his son Ivan in the division of the family property in 1787. The industrial settlement depended on the river, fuel and workers as part of the expanding Ural metal-producing economy.