The whole world knows A. S. Popov as an outstanding scientist, a talented inventor - everything is known about this period of biography. But the way the inventor's childhood and youth passed in the Urals and in the Perm province, in what environment his character crystallized and his worldview is not described enough. The authors recreated a holistic picture of the time in which the childhood of the Russian scientist passed "from a pure source to a beautiful far away."