The history of the city of Serov began in 1894. It was a small working settlement with a factory. The settlement was named Nadezhdinsky, in honor of The owner of the district, the wife of State Secretary E. I. V. Nadezhda Mikhailovna Polovtsova.
In July-August 1907, detachments of the famous Ural expropriator Alexander Lbov operated in the area of Nadezhdinsk.they committed 16 expropriations, sabotage and acts of terror in Verkhotursky uyezd.
In 1917, the plant in Nadezhdinsk employed about 12,000 people.
On September 15, 1919, by a resolution of the Yekaterinburg provincial military revolutionary Committee, Nadezhdinsky work settlement was given the status of a city.
By resolution No. 6809, the city of Nadezhdinsk was renamed the city of Kabakovsk in honor of the first Secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional Committee of the CPSU(b), I. D. Kabakov. In 1937, Kabakov was repressed and the city briefly returned to its former name. On June 7, 1939, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Nadezhdinsk was renamed the city of Serov, in honor of the deceased pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union Anatoly Serov.
In June 1993, the Kiselevsky reservoir dam burst on the Kakva river and caused severe flooding in the city of Serov and its surroundings. Today, the dam has been restored.
At the moment, the main attraction of the city is the Transfiguration square with the temple in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
The city has everything you need for life: two operating cinemas, two railway stations, a bus station, an airport, two churches, a mosque, a swimming pool, a Museum, entertainment and leisure centers, and much more.
More than a dozen Newspapers and magazines are published in Serov, and three TV companies operate. Currently, the population of Serov is about 95 thousand people.
Now the city of Serov is a major industrial and cultural center of the Sverdlovsk region and an important transport hub where road, rail, pipeline and air transport intersect.