The village was founded by Russian mining peasants who migrated from the villages of Patrakovo and Lapino, located in the lower reaches of the Siva River, between 1782 and 1795. Initially, the settlement of Svetly was part of the Golyan Cross Exaltation Church, and from 1850, after the parish was established in the village of July, it became part of the July Protection Church.

From the first years, there was a chapel in Svetly, which the parishioners rebuilt into a church in 1884. In 1886, by decree of the Holy Synod, an independent parish was opened in the village of Svetly. It included nearby villages that previously belonged to the Votkinsk Annunciation Cathedral and the July Protection Church: the village of Svetlyanskoye, the villages of Kudrino, Chernoklyuchye, Chernaya, Taly Klyuch, and the settlements of Romanovsky, Filippov, Kurochkin, and Pancheshur.

In 1887, on land donated by peasant Konstantin Vasilyevich Lapin, two wooden houses were built for the priest and the psalmist. In February 1891, the church was consecrated in the name of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. However, on the night of August 14, 1891, it burned down. In its place, a temporary wooden church was erected that same year, consecrated on March 1, 1892, in the name of the same apostles.

In 1894, thanks to the efforts of the parishioners, a new wooden church was built, consecrated on May 28, 1895, with the blessing of His Grace Sergius, Bishop of Vyatka and Slobodsk, by Archpriest Mikhail Utrobin from the Votkinsk Annunciation Cathedral. The temporary church remained in place until 1899.

The parish had a church-parish school in the Old Believer village of Chernaya and two zemstvo schools, one in Svetly and the other in Kudrino. The church-parish school in Chernaya began operating in 1896. The zemstvo school in Svetly opened in 1892, and in Kudrino, in 1902.

With the arrival of the Bolshevik authorities, Svetly experienced all the hardships of the Bolshevik regime. After the suppression of the peasant uprising against Soviet power in August 1918, the church became a place of detention for arrested family members of the uprising participants, most of whom were shot at its walls. Priest Ioann Luppov, like many men from the village, retreated with Kolchak's army. The new priest became Ioann Perevoznikov, who had previously served as a psalmist and, since 1916, as a deacon. He was later convicted and died in exile after the camps.

In 1920 and 1921, the church burned down. The new priest Alexey Ponomarev was convicted for his words. In 1923, the residents of Svetly and the surrounding villages built a new wooden church in the name of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. That same year, they registered the Orthodox religious society of "Old Believers," electing the former deacon of the July church Vasily Kryazhevsky as priest and peasant Vasily Ivanovich Lapin as starosta. The fate of Vasily Kryazhevsky is unknown, but from July 1924, Alexey Ponomarev again became the priest. In 1932, he was arrested again, and the church was left without a priest. At the request of the Votkinsk Executive Committee, on November 3, 1934, the Presidium of the Sverdlovsk Regional Executive Committee decided to close the "inactive church in the village of Svetly, Votkinsk District." The church was looted and repurposed as a school for peasant youth.

At the initiative of Orthodox Christians from the village of Svetly, on August 10, 1992, the Peter and Paul religious association was registered. Valentina Alexandrovna Shchenina became the chairperson of the parish council, and later she also became the starosta and treasurer. The believers were provided with one half of the former parish house, while the other half was occupied by athletes. In 1993, a fire that started from their side destroyed the building and all property. Shchenina managed to save the icon of the Lord Almighty.

The building of the current church was constructed in 1962 as a village store. Over time, the foundation deteriorated due to groundwater, and the floor, walls, and stove suffered from moisture and mold. For almost 10 years, repair work was carried out: the walls were cleaned and treated, the floor was replaced, and new solea, pulpit, iconostasis, and stove were built.

In 2008, specialists assessed the building as dilapidated and not subject to restoration. In January 2009, the Parish Council decided to repair the building as much as possible and proposed to the residents of Svetly to build a new church. In the summer, the old foundation, the lower crowns of the building, window glass were replaced, the roof and floor in the utility block were partially repaired, and sockets and switches were replaced. The church continues to thrive, and a new phase of parish life has begun, including the preparation of documentation and the construction of a new church in honor of the Holy Archapostles Peter and Paul.