The town is located in the Cis-Ural region on left bank of the Kama River, near its confluence with the Saygatka[8] in the southwestern part of Perm Krai.

The confluence of the Kama and the Saygatka and the nearby Votkinsk Reservoir form a peninsula on which the town is located.

[4] It was founded in 1955 as a settlement serving the construction of Votkinsk's hydroelectric power station.

[9] In Chaykovsky and the district, the election of the heads of local self-government has never been won by United Russia.

There is river station, it not used for passengers, because of high prices, and earlier ships on underwater wings were going.

Possibility to get higher education there is in Institute of physical culture and branches of two technical universities.

Chaykovsky has available museum of local lore and an art gallery, where there are a lot of works of famous Russian painters.