The settlement is located 74 versts from Yekaterinburg, on the western side of the Ural Mountains. The factory, known as "Novo-Utkinsky," is situated on the banks of the Upper Utka River, which divides it into two equal parts. The Utkinsky iron and steel plant was built in 1749 with state funds and was transferred to private ownership by Count Yaguzhinsky in 1758. In 1779, Yaguzhinsky sold the plant to Savva Yakovlev, whose descendants continue to own it. Workers were relocated from other state Ural factories and peasants were attracted from the Kungur and Turinsk districts.

The parish was established in 1829 and included the factory settlement as well as the villages of Krylосova and Nikitina. In 1901, the number of parishioners was 2738 people of both sexes, of whom 2007 lived directly at the factory. The main source of income for the factory population was work at the plant, while villagers engaged in firewood harvesting, coal production, ore extraction, and transportation to the factory.

The first petition for the construction of a church at the Utkinsky plant was submitted in 1802 by the Main Verkh-Isetsky Plant Administration to the Perm Bishop Justin. The plant administration and residents offered to support the clergy, but for various reasons, the request went unanswered. The issue of building a church was raised again in early 1830 at the initiative of the chief manager of the Yakovlev factories, Kitaev, and this time it was resolved positively. The church foundation decree was signed by the Perm Bishop Arkady on November 15, 1832. The laying of the church was entrusted to the Yekaterinburg archpriest Benediktov, but he did not fulfill the task. Bishop Arkady, visiting the Utkinsky plant on July 9, 1833, laid the church himself. In August 1838, the construction of the church was completed, and on September 4 of the same year, Bishop Evlampiy of Yekaterinburg consecrated it in the presence of a large crowd from the surrounding villages.

The church is made of stone, has one altar, is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and was built with the funds of the factory owner. It is located in the center of the factory, on the elevated right bank of the Utka River. The iconostasis is wooden, two-tiered, painted pink, with gilded carvings. In 1900, an iron fence on a stone foundation was installed around the church, replacing the wooden one. In the village of Krylосova, there is a wooden chapel in the name of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, built with the funds of the parishioners. In the same village, a mixed literacy school has been operating since 1892.