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Perm ( ) is a city and administrative center of Perm Krai

Perm Krai

Perm Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Okrug....
, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. It is situated on the banks of the Kama River

Kama River

Kama is a major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga River and the largest one in discharge; in fact, it is larger than the Volga before junction....
, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains

Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains are a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. They are usually considered as the natural boundary between Europe and Asia....
.

Perm's 2007 estimated population was 990,200 (2007 est.), down from 1,001,653 recorded in the 2002 Census

Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
and 1,090,944 recorded in 1989 Census

Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
. As of the 2002 Census, the city was the thirteenth most populous

List of cities and towns in Russia by population

This is a list of types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia with population over 50,000, grouped by federal subjects of Russia and sorted by population....
in Russia.

Perm is served by Bolshoye Savino Airport

Bolshoye Savino Airport

Bolshoye Savino Airport is an airfield in Perm Krai, Russia located 16 km southwest of Perm. It is a joint civil-military airfield with a small number of fighter and bomber pads....
and hosts Bakharevka air base.

The word "Perm" is probably Komi

Komi peoples

Komi live in the Komi Republic, Perm Krai, Murmansk Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia. Their Northernmost subgroup is also known as the Komi-Izhemtsy or Iz'vataz....
or Veps in origin.

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Perm ( ) is a city and administrative center of Perm Krai

Perm Krai

Russia

Kama River

Ural Mountains

Russian Census (2002)

Soviet Census (1989)

List of cities and towns in Russia by population

Bolshoye Savino Airport

Komi peoples

Komi-Permyak language

Komi-Permyak is spoken in Komi-Permyak Okrug of Perm Krai, Russia, in the basin of the Kama River. It is a Finno-Ugric languages language related to Komi-Zyrian language and Udmurt language....
as a hilly place, covered with woods. The other version is that Perm comes from Veps

Veps language

The Veps language , spoken by the Vepsians , belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages.According to Soviet Union statistics, 12 500 people were self-designated ethnic Veps at the end of 1989....
"Pera maa" or "Perama" (distant land in English).

Geography

Perm covers an area of

The city of Perm is located on the bank of the Kama River

Kama River

Kama is a major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga River and the largest one in discharge; in fact, it is larger than the Volga before junction....
. The Kama is the main tributary of the Volga River and the one of the deepest and most picturesque rivers of Russia. The Kama is the water-way which grants the Urals access to the White Sea

White Sea

The White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the northeast....
, Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
, Sea of Azov

Sea of Azov

The Sea of Azov is the world's shallowest sea, linked by the Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea to the south. It is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by Russia and on the west by the Crimean peninsula....
, Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
, and Caspian Sea

Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the List of lakes by area or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers ....
. Kama divides the city into two parts, Central part and right-banked part. The city stretches for a 70 km along the Kama and 40 km across of it. All latitudional streets settles down along the river, all meridional streets across of it.

The city is situated on hills. The distinguishing feature of the city's relief is the large quantity of small rivers and brooks. The largest of them are the Mulyanka

Mulyanka River

The Mulyanka , also referred as Upper Mulyanka, is a small river in Perm Krai, Russia which flows in the city of Perm and nearby Permsky District and is a left tributary of the Kama River....
, Yegoshikha

Yegoshikha River

Yegoshikha , formerly Yagoshikha , is a river in Perm Krai, Russia, the left tributary of the Kama River. In spite of its relatively small size it is famous for its historical significance....
, Motoviliha (all are in left bank of Kama River), and Gaiva (in right bank of Kama River).

History

During the early Middle Ages

Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
, the region of Perm was populated by pagan Finno-Ugric

Finno-Ugric

Finno-Ugric can refer to:* Finno-Ugric languages* Finno-Ugric peoplesExcess long comment to prevent listing on...
tribes who lived to the southeast of the legendary Bjarmaland

Bjarmaland

Bjarmaland was a territory mentioned in Norse sagas up to the Viking Age ? and beyond. Most scholars believe that the term refers to the south shores of the White Sea and the basin of the Northern Dvina River....
and northeast of Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria or Volga-Kama Bolghar, is an historic Bulgarian state that existed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries around the confluence of the Volga River and Kama River rivers in what is now Russia....
. Between the 13th and 14th centuries, Russian fur trade

Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur....
rs and Christian missionaries

Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church ; or The Moscow Patriarchate , also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is a body of Christianity who constitute an Autocephaly Eastern Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow, in full communion with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches....
from Novgorod and later Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
founded the first settlements in the area. Saint Stephen of Perm is credited with the conversion of the local population to Christianity in the late 14th century. In the 15th century, the Perm region, because of its highly profitable fur trade, was an object of a bitter rivalry between Novgorod and Moscow, and in 1472 Perm was finally annexed by the Grand Duchy of Moscow

Grand Duchy of Moscow

The Grand Duchy of Moscow was a medieval Russian polity centered on Moscow between 1340 and 1547. The Grand Duchy of Moscow, as the state is known in Russian records, has been referred to by many Western world sources as Muscovy....
. In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, soldiers, merchants, Christian monks, and priests were followed by Tsarist administration officials and peasant

Peasant

A peasant is an agriculture worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. The word is derived from 15th century French language pa?sant meaning one from the pays, or rural, ultimately from the Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district ....
settlers from the western Russia.

Perm was first mentioned as a village, Yegoshikha, in 1647; however, the history of the modern city of Perm starts with the development of the Ural

Ural (region)

Ural is a geographical region around the Ural Mountains, mostly within Russia but also including a part of northwestern Kazakstan. This is a historical, not an official entity, with the boundaries overlapping its western Volga and eastern Siberia neighbor regions....
region by Tsar Peter I of Russia

Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
. Vasily Tatishchev

Vasily Tatishchev

Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev was a prominent Russian statesman, and ethnographer, best remembered as the author of the first full-scale Russian history....
, appointed by the Tsar as a chief manager of Ural factories, founded Perm together with another major center of the Ural region, Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast....
.

Perm was founded on May 15 (May 4 in Julian calendar

Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
), 1723, and has had town status since 1781. By 1797, it was already an administrative center of the gubernia with the same name.

In the 19th century, Perm became a major trade and industrial center with a population of more than 20,000 people in the 1860s, with several metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic Chemical element, their intermetallics, and their mixtures, which are called alloys....
, paper

Paper

Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
, and steamboat

Steamboat

A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam engine, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels....
producing factories, including one owned by a British entrepreneur. In 1870, an opera theatre was opened in the city, and in 1871 the first phosphoric

Phosphorus

Phosphorus is the chemical element that has the symbol P and atomic number 15. The name comes from the and . A Valency nonmetal of the nitrogen group, phosphorus is commonly found in inorganic phosphate minerals....
factory in Russia was built. In 1916, — a major educational institution in modern Russia — was opened.

After the outbreak of the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed and the Bolshevik party assumed power in Saint Petersburg....
, Perm became a prime target for both sides because of its military munitions factories. In December 1918 the Siberian White Army

White movement

The White movement , whose military arm is known as the White Army or White Guard and whose members are known as Whites comprised some of the Russian forces, both political and military, which opposed the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1923...
under Anatoly Pepelyayev

Anatoly Pepelyayev

Anatoly Nikolayevich Pepelyayev was a White Russian general who led the Siberian armies of Admiral Kolchak during the Russian Civil War. His elder brother Viktor Pepelyayev served as Prime Minister in Kolchak's government....
(who acknowledged the authority of the Omsk

Omsk

Omsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast. It is the second-largest city in Russia beyond the Urals....
Government of Aleksandr Kolchak

Aleksandr Kolchak

Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak was a Imperial Russian Navy commander, polar explorer and later head of part of the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War....
), took Perm. In 1919 the city was retaken by the Red Army

Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
.

Grand Duke Mikail Alexandrovich

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke Michael of Russia, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Romanov was the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Nicholas abdicated in favour of Michael on , but the next day Michael deferred acceptance of the throne....
was executed in the outskirts of Perm with his secretary Nicholas Johnson on June 12, 1918 on the orders of the Perm Cheka

Cheka

The Cheka was the first of a succession of Soviet Union state security organizations. It was created by a decree issued on December 20, 1917, by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by an aristocrat turned communist Felix Dzerzhinsky....
. Their bodies were never recovered. A few weeks later on July 7, 1918, Andronic Nikolsky

Andronic Nikolsky

Andronik , also spelled Andronic, was a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church and a saint, canonization as Hieromartyr Andronik, Archbishop Of Perm in 2000....
, the Archbishop Of Perm, was also murdered by the Bolsheviks in the city. In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church glorified him as Hieromartyr Andronik, Archbishop Of Perm, one of the Russian New Martyrs and Confessors.

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Soviet Times

In the 1930s, Perm grew as a major industrial city, and aviation

Aviation

File:Norwegian military Bell 412SP helicopters.jpgAviation refers to activities involving man-made flying devices , including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them....
, shipbuilding

Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, originally called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history....
, and chemical factories were built there. The process continued after the 1940s and virtually every major industry became represented by numerous factories in Perm. To this day almost 80% of the city's population is employed in manufacturing. During the Great Patriotic War (World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
), Perm was a vital center of artillery

Artillery

Artillery is a military Combat Arms which employs any apparatus, machine, an assortment of tools or instruments, a system or systems used as weapons for the discharge of large projectiles in combat as a major contribution of fire power within the overall military capability of an armed force....
production in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
.

From 1940 until 1957 the city was named Molotov , after Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov , Soviet Union politician and diplomacy, was a leading figure in the Government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a prot?g? of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev....
.

Modern city

The city is a major administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center. The leading industries include machinery, defence

Arms industry

The arms industry is a global industry and business which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology and equipment. Arms producing companies, also referred to as Defence contractor or military industry, produce arms mainly for the armed forces of states....
, oil

Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds....
production (about 3% of Russian output), oil refining

Refining

Refining is the process of purification of a chemical compound. The term is usually used of a natural resource that is almost in a usable form, but which is more useful in its pure form....
, chemical and petrochemical, timber

Timber

Timber may refer to:* Lumber, i.e. wood materials* Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Oregon* Timber , a 1984 arcade game by Bally Midway...
and wood

Wood

Wood is an organic material; in the strict sense wood is produced as secondary xylem in the stems of woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs, etc....
processing and the food

Food

Food is any substance, usually composed of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and water, that can be Eating or Drinking by an animal or human for nutrition or pleasure....
industry.

Administrative divisions

Perm is divided into seven city districts:

Culture

The Perm Opera and Ballet House is the one of the best in Russia. There are many other theatres in Perm such as the Drama theatre, the Puppet Theatre, the Theatre for Young Spectators, the Theatre "Near Bridge" and so on.

Education

Perm is scientific center. Some of institutes combine into Perm scientific center of ural branch Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
.

Perm is a home to several major universities

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
including Perm State University

Perm State University

Perm State University is one of the main university in Russia. Founded in 1916, it claims to be the oldest university in the Ural and eastern territories of Russia....
, Perm State Technical University , Perm State Teachers' Training University, Perm State Medical Academy , Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy , Perm State Agricultural Academy, The Institute of Art and Culture, Perm State Choreographic School, Perm branch of state university Higher school of economics and others. There are also three military schools in Perm.

Transport

Perm is an important railway junction on the Trans-Siberian Railway

Trans-Siberian Railway

The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad is a network of railways connecting Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan....
with lines radiating to Central Russia, north part of Ural

Ural

Ural may refer to one of the following:*Ural Mountains*Ural *Ural River*Urals Federal District*Urals economic region*Ural-4320, Ural-375D and Ural-5323, Soviet and Russian military trucks...
, far east of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. Kama

Kama

Kama is pleasure, sensual gratification, sexual fulfillment, pleasure of the senses, desire, eros, the aesthetic enjoyment of life in Sanskrit....
River is an important link in the unifying deep-water system of the European part of Russia. The river connects city with European water-routes. It is possible to ship cargo from Kama river area to the sea ports of White

White Sea

Baltic Sea

Black Sea

Caspian Sea

Bolshoye Savino Airport

Bolshoye Savino Airport is an airfield in Perm Krai, Russia located 16 km southwest of Perm. It is a joint civil-military airfield with a small number of fighter and bomber pads....
(Big Savino).

Perm's public transit network includes streetcar (tram), bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
, and trolleybus

Trolleybus

A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from a network of charged overhead wires using spring loaded trolley poles. Two poles are needed, so that one can draw down the live current to power the motor and the other can complete the circuit by carrying the neutral current back to the network....
routes.

Sister cities

Perm is the sister city of (twinned

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
with): Agrigento

Agrigento

Agrigento , is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragras , one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden age of Ancient Greece....
, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
Orléans

Orléans

Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
, France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. The city's estimated population as of 2006 is listed as 557,789, with a population of 1,233,733 in the Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, United States

United States

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(1994) Oxford

Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
(1995) Duisburg

Duisburg

Duisburg is a Germany city in the western part of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an independent metropolitan borough within D?sseldorf ....
, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
(2007) Cherkasy

Cherkasy

Cherkasy is a city in central Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Cherkasy Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Cherkasky Raion within the oblast....
, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
Shenzhen

Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a city of sub-provincial city administrative status in southern China's Guangdong province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong....
, China

People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....

Sport

The three main professional sports played in Perm are football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
, ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
and basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet high hoop under organized rules....
. The largest football club in Perm is Amkar

FC Amkar Perm

FC Amkar Perm is a professional football club playing in Russian Premier League.It is based in the city of Perm and is the easternmost football club in Europe playing in top national competition ....
, who play in the Russian Premier League

Russian Premier League

The Russian Premier League is the top division of Russian football. There are 16 teams in the competition. At the end of the season two teams are relegated to the Russian First Division and replaced with the two top First Division teams....
. Perm is also home to the two-time Russian Basketball Super League

Russian Basketball Super League

The Russian Basketball Super League is the top league of Russian professional basketball. There are 12 teams in the Super League A Division and 14 teams in the Super League B Division....
champions, Ural Great

PBC Ural Great

PBC Ural Great Perm is a Russian professional basketball Sports club that is located in Perm, Russia. The club's home arena is Universal Sports Palace Molot....
. The largest Ice hockey team based in Perm is Molot-Prikame Perm who play in the Vysshaya Liga

Vysshaya Liga

The Russian Major League is a professional ice hockey league in Eurasia, and the second highest level of Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. Though currently acting independantly, plans are in place to convert it to a farm system for the Kontinental Hockey League's 2009?10 KHL season....
.

Notable citizens

See: :Category:People from Perm

The following people were either born in Perm or made names for themselves while residing there.

Viktor Petrovich Astafiyev
Viktor Astafiyev

Viktor Petrovich Astafiyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev , was a Russian writer of short stories and novels.Viktor Astafiyev was born in a village of Ovsyanka near Krasnoyarsk on the bank of the Yenisei River and spent much of his childhood in an orphanage....
, a Russian writer of short stories and novels;
Tatiana Borodina
Tatiana Borodina

Tatiana Borodina is a Russia opera soprano....
, opera soprano;
Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also referred to as Serge, was a Russian people art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise....
, ballet
Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
impresario;
Alexey Victorovich Ivanov, a modern Russian writer;
Fyodor Gral, a doctor.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Kosteniuk

Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster and the current Women's World Chess Championship....
, chess
Chess

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Grandmaster
International Grandmaster

The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from "World Chess Championship", Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....
;
Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, a Russian author;
Nikolai Moiseev
Nikolai Moiseev

Nikolai Dmitriyevich Moiseev was a Soviet astronomer and expert in celestial mechanics. In 1938 he became the chairman of the department of celestial mechanics at Moscow State University and worked on this position until his death....
, a astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
;
Fyodor Petrov
Fyodor Petrov

Fyodor Fyodorovich Petrov was a Soviet Union artillery designer....
was a Soviet artillery designer;
Natasha Poly
Natasha Poly

Natalia Polevshchikova , generally shortened to Natasha Poly , is a Russian Model first discovered after winning a model search competition in Moscow prior to her professional career beginning in 2004....
, a Russian supermodel
Supermodel

The term supermodel, coined in the 1980s, refers to a highly-paid ?lite model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling....
.
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Alexander Stepanovich Popov

Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who first demonstrated the practical application of electromagnetic waves, although he did not apply for a patent for his invention....
, physicist who was the first to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic waves (radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
);
Arkadiy Dmitrievich Shvetsov, a Soviet aircraft engine designer;
Nikolai Slavyanov, the inventor of new method in arc welding
Welding

Welding is a fabrication or sculpture process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence . This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes used in conjunction with heat, or by itself,...
;
Peter Berngardovich Struve
Peter Berngardovich Struve

Peter Berngardovich Struve - ???? ???????????? ?????? was a Russian political economist, philosopher and editor. He started out as a Marxist, later became a Liberalism and after the Bolshevik revolution joined the White movement....
, a Russian political economist, philosopher and editor;
Yuri Trutnev
Yuri Trutnev

Yuri Petrovich Trutnev is a Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation since 2004. He was elected mayor of the city of Perm in 1996 and elected governor of the Perm Oblast in 2000 ....
, a Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation;
Andrey Nikoforovich Voronikhin
Andrey Voronikhin

Andrey Nikoforovich Voronikhin was a Russians architect and painting. As a representative of classicism he was also one of the founders of the monumental Russian Empire style....
, a Russian architect and painter. As a representative of classicism
Classicism

File:Nicolas Poussin 055.jpgClassicism, in the The Arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seeks to emulate....
he was also one of the founders of the monumental Russian Empire style;
Konstantin Zyryanov
Konstantin Zyryanov

Konstantin Georgiyevich Zyryanov is a Russian football who currently plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. He has also appeared for the Russia national football team....
, a Russian footballer
Footballer

A footballer is a person who plays in various games known as "football" – especially association football, although the term is also used to refer to participants in Australian rules football, Gaelic football and Rugby football in some regions....
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Perm Krai

Perm Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Okrug....
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