However, even earlier, in a manuscript from Fischhausen of 1305, there is a mention of the peninsula of Payziev ("Poyzart" - the area in the forest Poyz), from which the Teutonic Knights invaded the Old Prussians' territory in the first half of the 13th century.

Their home were extremely cramped and dirty, smoke coming out of the centers through kamyshoyve roof sagged and a thick layer of soot on the walls through the kitchen.

Long winter evenings in the huts burning torch, making the faces of the inhabitants were constantly black.

The rest of the strongly expressed religious feelings of people meet as a church sermons, which were held in the school building.

During World War II, no military operations took place directly on the territory of the present-day town of Svetly.

The war ended for the village in April 1945, leaving no significant destruction, and it passed to the Soviet Union.

On June 17, 1947 by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR a rural council based in Svetly was founded as part of the Primorsky district.

On October 6, 1955 by decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet the workers settlement was transformed into a town of regional subordination, which became a centre of the Svetlovsky Urban Okrug in 2008.

[1] As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Svetly is incorporated as Svetlovsky Urban Okrug.

In general, unstable weather patterns and is associated mainly with a predominance of marine air masses with high repeatability accompanying Cyclones (storms).

Moist air masses coming from the Atlantic Ocean, cause high relative humidity, which is winter and fall 85-87 %, decreasing by early summer to 72-73 %.

High humidity and a large cloudy significantly affect the features (reduction) of the Svetly regime.