| __The city is heavily industrialized.There are epproximately 80 plants and factories in Perm,which include those belonging to the folowing industries: aircraft, electrical,chemical, oil-processing, timber and engineering. |
| __Perm's industries produce good of a high standard such as aircaft engines, electrical appliances, super-high-voltage cables.There is a great demand for Perm telephones,bicycles,"Druzhba"(Friendship),"Ural"(the Urals) and "Taiga" motorsaws and metal thermoses both in country and abroad. |
| __Perm's enterprises export their produce to dozens of countries. |
| __International exhibitions have recently begun to be staged at the Business Center of the Permcombank (Perm Commercial Bank)(on Gagarin Boulevard).About ten joint enterprises involving foreign firms have been set up. Great hopes are pinned on them.One of the most promissing joint ventures is the "Telur" Russian-Spanish enterprise specializing in talephone sets. |
| __The largest industrial enterprises are the joint-stock compaanies "Permskiye Motory" (former "Motorostroitel") and " Motovilikhinskiye Zavody") (the former V. L. Lenin Engineering Works)."Motorostroitel" (Motor - Builder) was the first enterprise of the home aircraft industry.It was built in the thirties."Motovilikhinskye Zavody" produces steel, rolled goods,complicated machines. |
| __Perm is also known for the "Kama" musical production association, the "Druzhba"(Friendship), the factory of furniture, the factory of confectionery, the "Permodezhda"(Perm Clothing) sewing production association. |