History
At the Yegoshikha river there was an oldest mentioned settlement at the territory of Perm city, described in the Prokopiy Elizarov census book in 1647. This settlement was later mentioned as Yegoshikha Village. In 1723, after the copper deposit was discovered there, the Yegoshikha Copper Factory was founded at the bank of Yegoshikha by Vasily Tatishchev, a chief manager of Ural factories. The workers' settlement had later become the Perm city.
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