Architecture and sightseeing
attractions.

__In Karl Marx Street (former Sibirskaya Street) and in Razgulyai,the historical centure of the city , there are many typical Russian-style houses.

__In old times are about 1,400 streets and by-streets in Perm.
__Lenin Street is the main street in our city.
__The main square is Oktyabrskaya (October) Square. Komsomolsky Prospect is one of the most beautiful and busiest streets in the city.
__Multi-storey buildings are chaning Perm's skyline.
__Among the most beautiful buildings is the Kama River Shipping Company headquarters (the steamer-owner and public figure N.V. Meshkov's former house),which reflects the architecture of the 19th century.
__In contrast to this building,the designs of the Palace of Juvenile'Creative Work and of the fountain in front of the Drama Theatre are modern and very unusual.
 
__The most impressive monuments are the monument to heroes of the front and rear in the esplanade park beside Lenin Street, the monumant to V.I.Lenin in the Komsomolsky Public Garden and the memorial complex in honour of the Urals Volunteer Tank Corps.
__The diorama "the December 1905 Armed Uprising in Motovilikha",which one see on the hill Vyshka in the Motovilikhinsky District,is another major sightseeing attraction.
__The monument to participants in the revolution of 1905 is in the same place. The monument to participants in the revolution of 1905 is in the same place.
__Perm has a Tsar-Cannon of its own (entered in the annual "Guinnes Book of Records").
__It is in the yard of the Museum of the Lenin Works.
__The Tsar-Cannon was cast at the Motovilikhinsky Coopper Works in 1868.
__Its barrel weighs 2.800 poods (one pood is equal to 16.38 kg), the weight of a cannon-ball is 30 poods,the calibre is 20 inches.
__During the first and last test 300 shots were fired successfully.
__In the children's Gorky Park of Culture and Rest one can admire I.I.Sviyazev's rotunda built as far back as 1824 (I.I.Sviyazev (1797-1875),a former serf, was an Academician of Architecture).
__The fairy-tale township surrounded by a strong log wall is attractive too.

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