Kungursky Uyezd was an administrative unit of Perm Governorate

Perm Governorate

Perm Governorate - an administrative unit of the Russian Empire and the USSR in 1781-1923 years. Located on both slopes of the Ural Mountains...

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

. It existed since 1781 to 1921, its capital was city of Kungur

Kungur

Kungur is a town in the southeast of Perm Krai, Russia, located in the Ural Mountains at the inflowing of the Iren and Shakhva Rivers into the Sylva River . Kungur was founded in 1663 and granted town status in 1781. It serves as the administrative center of Kungursky District, although it is not...

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Geography

It was situated in south of central part of governorate, to the west of Ural Mountainous.
All uyezd’s area was located in the drainage basin of Chusovaya River, that flowed through region from south to north. Other main river was Sylva River

Sylva River

Sylva River is a river in Sverdlovsk Oblast and Perm Krai in Russia. It is in length. The area of the basin is . The Sylva River flows into the Chusovoy Cove of the Kama Reservoir. It freezes up in November and stays under the ice until April. Principal tributaries: Iren, Barda, Shakva...

, the tributary of Chusovaya, that flowed through west of uyezd. More than one half of region was forested, mostly eastern part. Area of uyezd was 11,372.6 km².

Population

According 1895 data population of uyezd was 126,258, that mostly concentrated in west part of region.

Economy

In 1890 the uyezd had 379 plants and factories, the most important of them was to mining and metallurgical industry plants: Serebryansky and Kynovsky.