The settlement lies on the bank of the Ob’, where the Malaja and the Bol’šaja (Gornaja) Ob’ are branching. Its Khanty name is kew-awət ńŏt kurt ’rocky mountain top village’. The Russian place name may be related to the verb перегребать ’row across’, because the tradesmen headed to Berёzovo would cross over to the left bank of the Ob’ here.

The indigenous population of the village is Mansi, Khanty and Zyrian. Its first mention is from 1903. It used to function as a transshipment place at the time. In 1912, Peregrëbnoe is mentioned as a settlement of the Berёzovo district of the Tobol’sk governorate, where a population of ’another kind’, that is, not Russian, lives. At the time of the 1926 census, 11 Khanty persons were found in one household. In the 1930s and 1940s, it served as a place of exile for political prisoners.