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.