The city of Perm was founded in 1723, and the first mention of a settlement on the site of modern Perm dates back to 1647. For 17 years - from 1940 to 1957 - Perm was renamed the city of Molotov.
Geographical location of Perm
Perm is the capital of the region of the same name and is located in the European half of the Russian Federation, right in the foothills of the Urals. The capital of the Perm Territory is located to the right of the bank of the Kama River and not far from the Chusovaya River. Thanks to the first, Perm with its port is a connecting point between the five seas - the Caspian, White, Black, Azov and Baltic seas. Also, the city is a transport hub on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In the past few years, thanks to the efforts of contemporary art workers in Russia, Perm is increasingly called the cultural capital of Russia, and in Soviet times it was known as the industrial and scientific center of a vast country.
All settlements and cities of the Perm Territory are part of the so-called Yekaterinburg time zone and are two hours ahead of Moscow time.
The territory occupied by the capital of the region is almost 800 square kilometers, and the population of the city is 1.013 million people. This figure is less than in the capital of the Sverdlovsk region - the city of Yekaterinburg (1.396 million people), which borders the region on the eastern and southeastern sides. The region's neighbors are also the Republic of Komi from the north, the Kirov region from the north-west, the Republic of Udmurtia from the west, and the Republic of Bashkortostan from the south.
How to get to Perm from Moscow and St. Petersburg
The administrative center of the Perm Territory is connected with the capital of Russia by railway routes following to the final points - the cities of Vladivostok, Severobaikalsk, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Tagil, Novy Urengoy, Abakan and Tomsk - and leaving from the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow. The shortest travel time to Perm is one day.
You can also get to Perm from Moscow by car, following two highways - P98 or E22, which turn into M7. The length of the path is 1400 kilometers, and its time, if you go without long breaks, is 20 hours.
Perm is also connected with Moscow and St. Petersburg by regular flights of Russian airlines departing from the Perm airport Bolshoye Savino.
You can get from St. Petersburg to the capital of the Perm Territory by trains going to Chelyabinsk, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg and Tyumen. The minimum travel time is 30 hours.
The length of the road connecting the Northern capital and Perm is 1,860 kilometers of the road. You can come to the capital of the Perm Territory by two routes - A114 or M10, and the travel time will be 24-26 hours if you go without long and long stops.
