Ust-Kishert

Ust-Kishert takes its name from its position at the mouth of the Kishert. It appears in written records in 1647 as a village at that river mouth, and by 1691 was known as the Pokrovsky stockade. A church gave the fortified settlement its religious name. Local historians date the construction of a stone church to 1805. The village developed in the river country east of Kungur, where the Kishert joins the Sylva on its course toward the Kama.