Lysva is a town in Perm Krai

Perm Krai

Perm Krai is a federal subject of Russia that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. The city of Perm became the administrative center of the new federal subject...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located in the eastern part of the krai

Krai

Krai or kray was a type of an administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, and is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia ....

 on the Lysva River

Lysva River

Lysva is a river in Perm Krai, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Chusovaya, and is long, with a drainage basin of . By the river lies the town of Lysva....

, 86 kilometres (53.4 mi) from Perm

Perm

Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

. Population:

It was founded in 1785 as a place of residence for industrial workers. In 1926, it was granted town status.

The town's major industry are machine building and metalworking. It is exporting sheet iron, equipment for oil extraction, electric motors and others.
There are non-electrified railway line runs through town, that connect Lysva with Kalino station on the Gornozavodsk railway line.