News for May 2024

It will be available  for free at the airport, river station, hotels and museums of the city.

The Department of Economy and Industrial Policy of Perm City  Administration  has developed a new design of a tourist guide for walks around the city. The most interesting locations we selected in cooperation with  tour operators and guides so that these could be explored by individual tourists on their own. 

The guide presents three routes. Route 1  is a  2 km walk starting at the Soldatov Palace of Culture and taking one down the "Quiet Kompros" to Gorky Park and Sibirskaya street. 

Route 2 walks through the central streets of the city with a visit to the Esplanade, alleys of the Komsomolsky Avenue and Gorky Park . The tourists are invited to see the sculptures «Permyak the salty ears» and «Perm bear». Many citizens and tourists believe that you  have to rub the bear’s nose to have your wish come true. 

The longest route 3 is  3  2.5 km long and  starts from the Theater Square in Sibirskaya  street. The route ends with a visit to the Cathedral Square and the Transfiguration Cathedral - the main cathedral of the Perm Diocese in the 19th century. Its history goes back to the distant past, and begins as early as the 16th century, when Anika Stroganov founded the Pyskorsky Monastery, which was one of the richest in the Urals and  contained several shrines.

The route then passes  "The  Central Hotel"  which hosted professionals in arts and culture  evacuated from capital cities during  WWII; before that  the building had been known as  «Korolevsky Rooms» where  many celebrities stayed  including the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The fate of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov is connected with the history of «Korolevsky Rooms». It is here that he spent the last days of his life.

Tourists are invited to visit the embankment of the Kama river, the art object «Happiness is not far away», the River Station and rail station Perm-1. The route includes yet one more  location, namely, the Meshkov House. The building was built in 1889 and belonged to Nikolai Vasilyevich Meshkov - steamship owner, patron and organizer of the first University in the Urals. Today the building is the home of  the Perm Museum of Local Studies.

Earlier, the administration of Perm presented a new design of tourist products - postcards and a set of stickers.  Like the guide,  these will be available  for free on tourist stands at the Perm airport,  river station, in hotels and museums of the city.