| __The history of Perm is
rather interesting. Our city owes its existence to V.N.Tatishchev
(1686-1750),who is believed to be the founder of Perm. He
was a well-know figure of his time,a comrade-in-arms of
Peter the Great. Tatishchev was an outstanding
mining engineer, a historian and a geographer. |
| __In 1723 it was an he who
planned and supervised the construction of the
Yegoshikhinsky Cooper Works and founded a factory
settlement near the small river Yegoshikha ( or:
Yagoshikha ),a tributary of the Kama. |
| __This marked the
beginning of our city's existence ( the works was closed
in 1788).The new town was named "Perm" ( the
word is of Ugro-Finnic origin) and became the principal
town of our provice in compliance with Catherine II's
decree of November 20,1780.But as long ago as 1692 the
village of Bryukhanovka situated on the Yagoshikha was
officially registered.It can be called " the
original mother " of Perm. |
| __It 1923 Perm became part
of the Urals Region , the centre of which was
Yekaterinburg. |
| __In 1938 our city
acquired its present-day status. The first brick building
in Perm was the Petropavlovsky Cathedral built in 1764.
In 1792 the first printing-house in the Urals was set up
in Perm. |
| __In 1793 a school was
opened,and in the year 1800 a theological seminary was
established.The first two steamboats appeared on the Kama
, near Perm,in 1817.They were built at the Pozhva
factory.Steamships were also built at the Kamenskykh
brothers'works. In 1858 at the mouth of the small river
river Danilikha the British subject Gullet built a
mechenical works, where river turboats were
manufactured.In 1875 the Perm Tsar-Hammer was made. |
| __The design of the giant
50-ton steam-hammer drawn up by the metallurgist and
mechanical engineer N.V.Vorontsov(1833-1893) was
given the highest award at the World Industrial
Exhibition in Vienna in 1873( the Tsar-Hammer was
dismantled in 1923).The first section of the provincial
railway line was built in Perm in 1878. |
| __The powerful local
broadcasting centre was put into servece in 1930. |
| __Kamskaya hydro-electric
power station began operating in the fifties (in the 1950
s).The TV station was built in 1958.At the end of the
18th century the most popular Perm product was salt which
was extracted in the Perm Province, in Usolye and
Solikamsk.It is said that at the Perm wharf dockes
carried this "white gold" in enormous sacks on
their backs,and their ears were often covered with
salt.That is the explanation of the origin of the saying
"permyak (Perm dweleer) - salty ears". |
| __Quite a few names are
bound up with our city.Let's remember some of them. |
| __P.P.Bazhov
(1879-1950),the author of " The Malachite
Box",was a graduate of the Perm Theological
Seminary. D.N.Mamin-Sibiryak (1852-1912),the
portrayer of the ordinary life of the Urals, and A.S.Popov
(1859-1960), the inventor of the radio, studied at the
Seminary too.The famous poet V.V. Kamensky
(1884-1961),V.V.Maykovsky's friend, lived and
worked in Perm and in thwe village of Troitsa, Perm
Region, For a long time.Kamensky was one of the first
Rissian pilots.In 1911 he flew over the Kama in his
aeroplane.The poet and literary scholar A.F.Merzlyakov
(1788-1830) was born in Perm and Attended the municipal
school here.In 1811 he wrote the famous song "Amidst
the Even Valley". N.G.Slayanov(1854-1897),
the inventor of electric welding, was also the designer
of the first factory electric power station wtich was
built in Perm in 1886. |
| __The famous German
naturalist A.Gumboldt, who visited Perm in
coordinates while standing at the rotunda in the
Out-of-Town Garden.P.P.Vereshchagin (1834-1886),
the first landscape painter in the Urals, was born in
Perm and spent his childhood here. |
| __The noted propagandist
of Rissian art and Maecenas S.P.Diaghilev
(1872-1929) was a graduate of the Perm Classical
Education Gymnasia .The outstanding writer A.Gaidar
(1904-1941) was on the editorial board of the local
newspaper "Zvezda" (Star) in 1922-1927.The
writer Ye.A.Permyak (1902-1982) was born in Perm
, graduated from Perm University. |
| __During the Great Patriotic War the following prominent cultural workers lived and worked in Perm: the writer V.A.Kaverin(who was writing his novel " The Two Captains" at that time ), the painter B.V.Ioganson,the ballerina G.S.Ulanova,the composer A.I.Khachaturyan (who wrote the score of the ballet "Gayane" while in Perm).The pilot-cosmonaut V.Savinykh graduated from the Perm Railway Transport Technical School.The popular composer Ye.Krylatov is a graduate of Perm College of Music. |