The town is best known for its Dumnaya mountain, where a monument to those who died fighting Kolchak's army is located.

The town was founded in the first quarter of the 18th century as a settlement around copper mines.

The modern town comprises the territories of former settlements of Gumeshki, Polevskoy, and Seversky.

The flag of Polevskoy consists of the Venus symbol (♀), which represents the chemical element copper, the character Lizard Queen of Russian folklore, the symbolic representation of the Stone Flower from the story of the same name, and the eight-pointed star, the brand of the Seversky Pipe Plant.

[4][1] The bandy team Seversky Trubnik[11] plays in a recreational league.