User:Stepan Sychev (Baldi)/Nozhovka, Chastinsky District, Perm Krai

Nozhovka (Ножовка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Chastinsky Municipal District of Perm Krai, Russia.

Geographical position
The village is located on the right bank of the Votkinsk reservoir at a distance of about 25 kilometers in a straight line to the south-west from the village of Chastye.

History
Founded in 1740 at the Christmas ironworks, launched in 1744. Subsequently, the number of Rozhdestvensky factories increased to four (not counting a separate nickel production, which operated in 1874-1876). In administrative-territorial terms, the village belonged to the Okhansky Uyezd of the Perm Governorate.

Due to low competitiveness, the Christmas factories stopped working by 1890. After the closure of the factory, handicrafts, the production of matting sacks and leather shoes, were developed in the village.

In the Soviet period of history there were collective farms named after. Molotov, "40 years of October", "The Testaments of Ilyich" and, finally, the state farm "Nozhovsky", which existed from 1965 to 1991. In the vicinity of the village, oil is produced at the Nozhovskoye field, discovered in 1966.

Until 2020, it was the center of the Nozhovsky rural settlement of the Chastinsky district.

Climate
The climate is temperate continental, with cold and long winters and warm short summers. The average annual air temperature is 1.9 °C. The warmest month is July (18.7 °C), the coldest is January (-14.6 °C), the absolute maximum reaches 38 °C, the absolute minimum is -48 °C. The last spring frosts occur on average on May 23, the first autumn frosts on September 18. The duration of the frost-free period is 117 days. Snow cover is established on average by November 6-9, the first appearance of snow was recorded on October 14-20. The average long-term snow cover height reaches 55 cm. The snow cover lasts for 161 days. Snow melting is observed in late April - early May.

Infrastructure
Agricultural enterprise LLC "Nozhovsky", Krasnokamsky oil production site of CJSC "LUKOIL-Perm", housing and communal services enterprises, "Perm-gosles" branch, small businesses, weather station. There is a secondary school and a special (correctional) boarding school of the VIII type (for teaching mentally retarded children), a house of culture, a library.

Population
Resident population was 1991 (97% Russians) in 2002, 1765 people in 2010.