Perm

Perm (?????, pop. 1,000,100 as of 2003) is a city in Russia, on the banks of the Kama River, at the foot of the Ural Mountains - the border between Europe and Asia. Its geographical location is . Perm was founded on May 17, 1723, and has had town status since 1781. It is the capital of Perm Oblast, which is a part of the larger Volga Federal District. The city is a major administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center. The leading industries include machinery, defence, oil production (about 3% of Russian output), oil refining, chemical and petrochemical, timber and wood processing and the food industry. Perm is a home to several major universities.

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The former Emperor Mikhail II was executed in the outskirts of Perm with his secretary Nicholas Johnson on June 12, 1918 on the orders of the Perm Cheka. Their bodies were never recovered.

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From 1940 until 1957 the city was named Molotov (????????), after Vyacheslav Molotov.

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Russia: The Russian Federation (, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: ???????, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Asia. With an area of 17,075,400 km? (6,595,600 mi?), it is the largest coun...

Kama River: Kama (; Tatar: ?ulman) is a river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga. It starts in Udmurtia flowing east, then turns south and west in Perm Oblast, flowing again through Udmurtia and then through Tatarstan, where it meets the Volga. The overall length is 1805 km. The largest t...

Ural Mountains: The Ural Mountains (Russian: ?????????? ????? = ?????) also known simply as the Urals and as the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, is a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia....