Common Information
 Perm is one of the oldest and biggest cities in the Urals. It is situated on the border of Europe and Asia but still in Europe. Perm stretches along the mighty Kama River for nearly 60 kilometres.
Perm was founded on May 17th, 1723 as a stronghold and a settling of workers of Yegoshikhinski copper foundary. In 1780 Yegoshikhinski settling was chosen to be the best geographical place for the centre of a big area named Perm Region.
 Nowadays Perm is an administrative, industrial, scientific and cultural centre. There are over 80 factories and plants, more than 30 research institutes, 8 higher educational institutions, 4 theatres and the Opera and Ballet House in Perm.
 Perm is a big river port. Perm Shipping Company owns comfortable passenger ships and cargo-boats of the "river-sea type". Via the Kama River and the system of canals Perm has an access to five seas (the Caspian Sea, the Azov Sea, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and the White sea).
Perm's climate is continental. The Kama water reservoir (the Kama Sea) makes it rather damp. The mean temprature in January is about minus 15'C and in July 18'C above zero. Humidity is often above 80 per cent.
Art and Culture
There are four state theatres in Perms: an opera-house, a drama theatre, a puppet-show and a juvenile' theatre.
 The P.I.Tchaikovsky Perm State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre founded in 1870 was the first musical theatre in the Urals.
Now it is reputed to be one of the best theatres in this country. Its repertoire is very extensive. Tchaikovsky's operas and ballets (including "The Queen of Spades" and "Swan Lake"), Borodin's "Prince Igor", Rossini's "The Barber of Ceville" , Minkus's "Don Quixote",Prokofiev's "War and Peace" and "Cinderella" and some other classical and modern operas and ballets performedbyour Theatre have always been a great success.
The ballet troupe consists mainly of graduates of the Perm Ballet School (quite a number of brilliant ballet dancers,including a former artiste of the Theatre, the world-famous ballerina N.Pavlova,have been trained by L.Sakhorova,the artabviser of the School). The company has toured in the USA, Japan and in many other countries thus the Theatre has won universal recognition. The Perm Drama Theatre is noted both for its company and its splendid marble building. L.Mosolova, V.Saitov,V.Ginzburg are among the leading actors and actresses of this Theatre. More than 10 performances by the Theatre have been awarded diplomas at different festivals.
The tallest building with a spire, a former cathedral,situated on Komsomolsky Prospect houses the Perm State Art Gallery.
The building, a unique monument of Russian classicism,towers over the whole of Perm.
 The Gallery was opened in 1922. Not many art galleries in this country can math the collections of our Gallery in variety and artistic worth.
It ranks with such treasuries as the Hermitage , the Tretyakov Art Gallery and the A.S.Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
The Gallery is remarkable for its collection of the Perm wooden sculpture.
Here are exhibited pictures by many painters of the Italian , Fenish, Dutch and Franch schools of the 15th to the 18th centuries and masterpieces by I.Shishkin, I.Aivazovsky, I.Repin, I.Kramskoy, A. Kuinji as well.
The Gallery also displays works by Ye.Shirokov, A.Tumbasov,A.Zyryanov and other Perm artists.
In the Perm Museum of Local Lore there are over 360,000 exhibits.
Place of pribe in the exhibition is taken by the collection of manuscripts and of "stolbtsy"(official papers) of the 16th to the 17th centuries.
The collection of metal sculpture of the ancienr Prikamye area is unique.
The exposition gives an interesting insight into the history of Perm from the 18th century onwards.
The Museum houses many works of applied art and crafts, old household untensils and labour implements to give an idea of the life of Perm's population of the 19th century and earlier.
The Nature Department features the natural conditions of our region.
There are collections of Urals ornamental stones and stuffed animals in the Museum.
The Perm State Circus situated on the City Hills is designed to seat 2,000. (The builgned of the Circus was designed by the local architect M.G.Futlik, as was that of the aforementioned Library.)
The best circus performers appear in the ring of the Circus regularly.
The Perm Planetaium is not far from the Circus.
In the Perm Zoological Gardens there are about 300 species of animals from all over the world.
The Repblican Hippodrome locates in Balatovo,one of the city's microdistricts,enjoys great popularity with lovers of the races (horse-racing).
In Perm there are four wide-frame and 10 wide-screen cinemus,the most popular ones being the "Kristall" (Crystal),the "Rossiya"(Russia), the "Octyabr"(October),the "Mir" (Peace), the "Iskra"(Spark), and the "Rubin"(Ruby).
In our city variety shows usually run at the "Molot"' (Hammer) Palace of Sports,the building of the Perm Circus and at the Sverdlov Palace of Culture and Technology.
Gala concerts are sometimes arranged at the "Zvezda" (Star) Stadiun,which can hold 25 thousand spectators.
Ice shows (revues) are staged and figure-skating competitions are held at the "Orlyonok"(Eaglet) Palace of Sports.
The artists of the Perm regional Philharmonic (including "Kontrast" (Contrast) Vocal and Instrumental Ensemle, the Chamber Chorus under V.Novik, the Male Vocal Quartet headed by I.Voronov, the violinist Yu.Ilyutovich and the pianist Yu.Agafonov) are warmly received by the audience.
Sport
There are ample facilities for relaxation there: a pine forest, a dance pavilion and umerous side-shows such as a motor-drome, merry-go-rounds,swings. However, the most popular place for recreation is the children's Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. In the last century it was called "the Out-of-Town Garden". Perm's leading sports collectives are the ice-hockey team "Molot" (Hammer) and the footbal team "Zvezda" (Star).
The Perm athlete arena "Spartak" (Spartacus) and the "Zvezda" (Star) Stadiu are farfamed.
There are five ski jumps in our city, the biggest one of them being 58 metres high.
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