Nyrob
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Nyrob is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

) in Cherdynsky District
Cherdynsky District
Cherdynsky District is an administrative district of Perm Krai, Russia; one of the thirty-three in the krai. Municipally, it is incorporated as Cherdynsky Municipal District...

 of 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
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Nyrob is connected with the town of Cherdyn by a 41 kilometres (25.5 mi) long paved road.

Etymilogy

The name of settlement is addition of Komi-Permyak
Komi-Permyak language
Komi-Permyak language is one of two regional varieties of the pluricentrical Komi language, the other variety being Komi-Zyrian.Komi is a Uralic language closely related to Udmurt....

 words “ныр” (nose) and “ыб” (field), then, it can be translated as "Nose’s field" (Nose – is last name of one of the first inhabitants of locality).

History

First mentioned in written sources in 1579.

It served as the administrative center of Nyrobsky District between February 27, 1924 and June 10, 1931 and then again between October 20, 1931 and November 4, 1959. Urban-type settlement status was granted to it in 1963.

There are some architectural sights. One of them is Nikolskaya Church (completed in 1704); to the west of it there is also Bogoyavlenskaya Church (1736).
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