Verkhnyaya Pyshma is located 15 km north of Yekaterinburg. Today it is a large industrial center and one of the most dynamically developing cities in the Sverdlovsk region, called the Copper Capital of the Urals.

Like most cities in the Urals, the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma was born in the origins of mining. The first residents of Pyshma were engaged in coachmanship on the "large Verkhoturskaya road" and ore prospecting. After the discovery of the Pyshminsko-Klyuchevsky copper mine in 1854, a small copper smelter appeared next to it, which became the city-forming enterprise. In 1929, construction began on the Pyshminsky copper electrolytic plant, which produced its first copper in 1934. Since then, the city has borne the unofficial title of "Copper Capital of the Urals".