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« T h e P e r m D a y s » i s t h e n e w s p a p e r f o r f o r e i g n g u e s t s o f P e r m r e g i o n a n d e n g l i s h - s p e a k i n g P e r m a n d P e r m r e g i o n

As part of the VII annual Russian - German forum in Wiesbaden held recently, an Agreement on the establish-ment of sisterhood relations between Perm and Duisburg was signed.

NEWS IN PERM 5 >>

Duisburg — the third “sister” city of Perm

The subject of the Perm Zoo is a sore point for the city. A question of relocation of the Zoo was raised several times, as its area is pretty small. Another reason is the general aesthetics of the zoo.

NEWS IN PERM 4 >>

Animal Kingdom

is on the Move

10 billion rubles will be allotted

for repair works of roads in Perm

At the meeting, held on Oc-tober, 5th, the Perm region government confirmed an investment program for road construction period 2008-2010. 10.07 billion rubles will be allotted for construction of the regional roads within that program.

NEWS IN PERM 6 >>

Oil — BlAcK GOlD

Of the UrAls

The Perm region is well known for the recovery and process-ing of its abundant natural resources. The rich landscape of the region provides a great the opportunity for the growth of these key industries. Perm Region’s engineering, chemical and petroleum industries are making a mark for themselves on both home and foreign markets.

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Of the PerM KrAi:

OPen Jsc “MetAfrAX”

Opening Perm

TOURISM

tour «the Big Ural ring»Urals 16 >>

cherdyn, ancient capital of the Urals 18 >>

cherdyn, ancient capital of the Urals 18 >>

Usolje — the city on the island 19 >>

Perm’s tower of Death: history and legends 20 >>

Once at the Khohlovka gates 20 >>

News iN Russia

Address of the newspaper: Russia, Perm, Karpinskogo 97/a-208, e-mail: [email protected], tel. 8 912 98 362 79. Establisher and publisher: The Bureau of translators, interpreters and guides-followers “The Perm interpreters”, Establisher and publisher: The Bureau of translators, interpreters and guides-followers “The Perm interpreters”, Director Aljona Mouse ([email protected]). The chief executive “PERM INTERMEDIA GROUP“: Oksana

Nikiforova ([email protected]). Editor-in-chief: Larissa Azanova (alv@pimg). Authors: Al, Azanova Larissa, Dubrovskaya Karina, Makhles Hellen, Medvedeva Arina, Proskurina Nadezhda, Raskolnikov Michael, Rayngardt Olga, Ludmila Prokopets. Translators: Yakov Farbrerov, Kamalutdinova Alina. Sociologists: Olga Rayngardt, Yegor Neustroyev. The editors do not share the responsibility for the maintenance of the promotional and

advertising material. No part of these materials may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the editorial board. The editors may not share the authors’ point of view. The editors reserve the right to themselves for reduction of publications texts without change of their sense, and also for placing of promotional materials at own discretion if another situation is not stipulated by the contract.

Circulation is 5000 copies. Press: “New Print - Perm”. 614014, Perm, 1905 st., 35.

Recently, at the first congress of

“Russian Railway men” a strategy was presented for the next 25 years of rail development in Russia.

In reporting on the Congress, the Russian magazine “Expert” observed the plan would make “the Russian Railway worthy com-petition for other types of transport, but it will require an investment of more than 2.5 tril-lion rubles ($US250 Billion).

The proposed railway transporta-tion development until 2030 is planned two phases. The first stage, planned to be complete by 2015 call for the full re-placement of an out-of-date rolling stock

and overcoming so-called “bottlenecks” in an infrastructure, which currently pro-hibit growth in the amount of rail traffic. This phase would also include the integration of Rus-sian railways with the Eurasian transport system.

The second stage, to be completed by 2030, assumes the expansion of some 20 thousand kilo-meters of the major railway network. This, in turn, will allow an expansion of high-speed pas-senger train service through the intro-duction of the latest technologies and a corresponding in-crease in the speed of cargo trains as well as the carry-ing capacity of the “Mobile Park” rail transport system.

The strategy as a whole has been approved by the government. Having emphasized the am-bitious nature of the plan, Vladimir Putin said «Speaking directly, the coun-try’s railway boom will be comparable with that which oc-curred at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.” “Actu-ally,” according to the President, “the proposal is a quali-tative updating of the railway economy for the country and modernization of the branch system. All of these measures should strengthen the competitive and geopolitical posi-tion of Russia and provide a serious impetus for the social and economic growth of the na-tion”.

the new railway boom in russiaNames List

Sergey Mironov ......... 2

Vladimir Putin .........2,5

Ilya Klebanov............. 2

Viktor Zubkov ........... 3

Demidov ....................16

Stalin .........................16

Akinfiy Demidov ......16

Daniel Defoe .............16

Stroganov ..................19

Romanov ...................18

Edward Grib ............... 7

Nicholas II ................17

Wen Jiabao ................ 3

Andrei Klimov ........... 6

Larissa Kleyner .......... 7

Elena Guilyazova ....... 7

Vyacheslav Loginov .. 7

Leonid Starodubcev... 7

Vladislav Polushkin ..15

Levitan ......................15

Velaskes ....................15

Savrasov ....................15

Polenov .....................15

Dore ...........................15

Henry Terpilovskiy.... 7

Meshkov .................... 4

Hani Rashid ............... 4

Wolfgang Prix ........... 4

Eric Owen Moss ........ 4

Hans Hollein .............. 4

Lars Spuybroek .......... 4

Odille Decq .............. 4

Zaha Hadid ................ 4

Peter Zumthor .......... 4

Angela Merkel ........... 5

Armen Garslyan ... 9, 11

Victor Baranov ..........11

Ivan Kostin................11

Anatoliy Ufimkin ......11

Konstantin Podvalniy 11

Petr Kondrashev .......11

Vladimir Daut ...........11

Vladislav

Baumgertner .............11

Eugeny Bachurin ....... 5

Marcelo Tholel .........23

Larisa Kleyner ........... 7

Elena Guilyazova ....... 7

The chairman of Council of

Russian Federation Sergey Mironov has once again declared that he would not remove the offer on prolonging Vladimir Putin’s presidency to a third term.

“I would not re-move the offer on the third term for president” he said when questioned on the subject. He went on to say V. Putin is a “recognized world leader who has returned our coun-try to the interna-tional scene and has forced it to consider Russia”.

Minonov rein-forced the point repeatedly adding “The legitimate

continuation of Vladimir Putin stay in authority would be the blessing, and this question is not off from the agenda”. The chair-man of Council of Russian Federation also considers “that it is natural to pass on spontaneous references about a potential third term as President of the country. And we, legislators, should think on how to make it happen. Maybe it is not necessary to rewrite the Constitution of the Russian Federa-tion for this purpose — there are other options and I will think about it and work seriously in this direction”.

Mironov does not refuse idea of the

third term

Russian drivers who constantly

break the Traffic Regulations rules will now face the loss of their driving licenses forever.

This announcement was recently made by Ilya Klebanov, the Plenipotentiary of the President of the-Northwest Federal District of RF during a conference on traf-fic safety. “A large

amount of deaths on the road are due to drivers who repeat-edly neglect the rules of the road”, Mr. Klebanov said. Among the other “culprits of death” on Russian roads, he also cited the poor repair state of the pavement, inefficient coordination by vari-ous authorities on proper precautionary measures to prevent traffic accidents and

the sharp increase of the number of cars using the roads.

Sergey Mironov, Speaker of the Coun-cil of the Russian Federation also took the floor during the conference. He said that STSI (the State Traffic Safety In-spectorate) should not pardon deputies and celebrities for breaking the rules of the road. “It can’t be accepted that a lot of deputies and celebri-ties get off with light penalties or with only a “caution”. The law should be the same for ev-erybody: offenders should be sentenced to large fines and public works”, said Mr. Mironov.

Drivers will lose their driving license for life

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News iN Russia

The forthcom-ing election has

actually turned into a referendum, or to be more precise, a plebiscite. That the majority of the population of the country support Mr. Putin is clearly evi-dent even without a nation-wide vote.

It is high time to ask the question: Why, in fact, do the people support the president of Russia?

The Russian news-paper “Izvestiya” says the following on this subject:

“Someone would say that this can be explained by mass propaganda. Some-one would remind us of economic growth but… let’s be frank, economic growth has not be-come a factor that can “buy” people’s support. The reason isn’t that the there has been sufficient growth but, rather, for the reason is

that the majority of Russian people have fortunately not learned yet to sell their favour and re-spect for money..”

Some would say that Mr. Putin has been actively en-gaged in establish-ing basic order in Russia. He has firmly suppressed terrorism and separatism, es-tablished the power of law and tried to get the authority to carry out its com-mitments. There is no doubt all this is true but… The fight against terrorism and separatism has a cost known to us victims, the power of

law is still resisted by crime and corrup-tion and the process of creating a mecha-nism for carrying out authority’s commit-ments has not been completed yet. And people know it very well…

They also feel and realize one more thing. One of the bases of Chinese classical political science has always been the principle that is difficult to understand for a person with Eu-ropean mentality. The principle says: “People live badly not because of poverty but because

of anxiety”. By the way, this was “anxi-ety” – anxiety for the present and the future of themselves and their family that the Russian people had felt for almost twelve years before Mr. Putin came into power. It was such anxiety, such uncertainty of the future, such lack of any positive outlook that made their life bad more than all the mate-rial losses. While the present Russian leader has been in power, Russian people have felt stability, stability of development but not of stagnation. People have found anew a belief that a normal life is pos-sible in Russia. Is it surprising that the citizens of Russia support a person who has helped them to find again this belief? It is no wonder. This is how things should be”.

Why people support Mr. Putin

The World mar-ket still offers

surprises to Russia, especially before the elections. Oil price may rise as high as $125 for a barrel. This overwhelms all previous “dar-ing ” forecasts of oil price increases up to $100 previously thought only pos-sible within the next few years.

This time the forecast comes not only from analysts and “great theorists” but also from “invis-ible hand” of the market. According to the report of New York commodity ex-change, by the end of October traders

obtained the right to buy more than two million and a half of barrels of oil and sell them for $125 for a barrel in December.

The price for a barrel has grown by 19% for the last few months. Drastic price increases are ac-counted for by three reasons: demand for oil significantly ex-ceeds its supply, the conflict between the USA and Iran, and, on the other hand, the dollar’s growing weaker and the US securities are getting less attractive for as a fund reserve.

Increase in the demand for oil is due to the dramatic economic develop-

ment of some of thelargest “Third World” countries – Brazil, Russia, In-dia and China. Their economic growth is connected with a geometric increase in consumption of energy supply.

Apart from that, currently oil (as well as precious metals) has become even more demanded by investors as an alter-native to investment in the US securities. The stock market of the USA suffers from a crisis in the real estate market and US treasury bonds are losing their yields due to rate reduc-tions by the US Fed-eral Reserve System.

In these circum-stances, investors direct their atten-tion to commodity values – oil and gold. “Pelf” rises in price for the same reason: world price for an ounce of gold has increased to $800, which is the highest it has been since 1980.

For the pres-ent moment there are no alternatives for oil as the main energy source. And there won’t be any in the near-est future, until the appearance of new revolutionary, technologies, or, perhaps, until there is no more oil on the Earth.

Oil price will only rise

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Èçäàòåëü: OOO “Ïåðìü Èíòåðìåäèà Ãðóï”. . Èñïîëíèòåëüíûé äèðåêòîð: Íèêèôîðîâà Îêñàíà ([email protected]). Ðåäàêòîð: Àçàíîâà Ëàðèñà (alv@pimg). Êîððåêòîð: ßðè Ýäâàð. Àâòîðû: Al, Àçàíîâà Ëàðèñà, Äóáðîâñêàÿ Êàðèíà, Äóáðîâñêàÿ Êàðèíà, Ìàõëåñ Åëåíà, Ìåäâåäåâà Àðèíà, Ïðîñêóðèíà Íàäåæäà, Ðàñêîëüíèêîâ Ìèõàèë, Ðåéíãàðä Îëüãà, Ïðîêîïåö Ëþäìèëà. Ïåðåâîä÷èêè: Ôåðáåðîâ ßêîâ, Êîìàëóòäèíîâà Àëèíà. Ñîöèîëîãè: Ðåéíãàðä Îëüãà, Íåóñðîåâ Åãîð. Ðåäàêöèÿ íå íåñåò îòâåòñòâåííîñòè çà ñîäåðæàíèå ðåêëàìíûõ ìàòåðèàëîâ. Ìíåíèÿ àâòîðîâ ïóáëèêàöèè íå îáÿçàòåëüíî îòðàæàåò òî÷êó çðåíèÿ ðåäàêöèè.

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Banks have 514.1 bln rbs on CBR cor-respondent accounts on November 7

Russian banks have 514.1 billion rubles on correspondent accounts in the Central Bank as of November 7 including 364.2 billion rubles for Moscow banks.

The balance on November 6 was 498.9 bil-lion rubles and 350.4 billion rubles, respec-tively.

Banks had 103.3 billion rubles on deposit accounts in the Central Bank on November 7 against 104.8 billion rubles on previous day.

“Interfax”

Gazprom looks to buy filling stations in Poland

Gazprom is readying itself for its arrival on the European refined oil product market. The Russian natural gas monopoly was of-fered the possibility of acquiring 300 filling stations in Poland as part of a joint venture deal with British Petroleum (BP). A Gaz-prom source confirmed that such talks were underway, noting however, that prior to purchasing the assets, the monopoly would have to assess its chances of supplying its own oil to these filling stations, the RBC Daily newspaper wrote today. The possibil-ity that the gas stations would be handed over to the Russian gas giant’s subsidiary Gazprom Neft has not been ruled out. Ana-lysts estimate the proposed deal at $300-$600 million.

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Russian and Chinese PMs meet The Prime Ministers of Russia and China

bear personal responsibility for the imple-mentation of the bilateral long-term good-neighborliness, friendship and cooperation agreement, Russian PM Viktor Zubkov announced during a meeting with his Chi-nese counterpart Wen Jiabao in Moscow November, 6. Zubkov believes that reaching an agreement to prepare a new action plan for carrying out the agreement for 2009-2012 was an important step. He noted that relations between Russia and China had reached an unprecedented level, having become a powerful positive factor in world politics. Zubkov added that strengthening the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership was in line with the national interests of both countries.

In turn, the Chinese PM pointed out that the strategic partnership between the two countries was on the threshold of a new decade of its development. Jiabao also welcomed the advancements of cooperation, referring to them as positive changes.

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Russia suspends arms treaty The Russian State Duma has suspended

Russia’s participation in the Treaty on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), although the President has the right to resume the country’s participation. The bill was ratified unanimously (418) and will come into effect once it has been published.

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News iN peRm

The subject of the Perm Zoo

is a sore point for the city. A ques-tion of relocation of the Zoo was raised several times, as its area is pretty small. Another reason is the general aesthet-ics of the zoo.

The animal cages are situated in the area which was a bishop’s cemetery until it’s conver-sion to a zoo in the 1920’s. This was, almost certainly, more of a political statement of the new Soviet govern-ment than a selec-

tion based on its central city loca-tion. In 1967, the government appro-priated an area of 30 hectares in the Balatovsky forest-park for a new Zoo; Balatovsky forest-park being a large forested area within the city. The govern-ment even started some construction works, but financial problems prevented the Zoo from being completed and the idea was set aside for many years. Since 2001, there have been many hot discussions held on the subject of the zoo, both about the poor facilities at the current location as well the sacrilegious

aspect associated with it. The govern-ment has identified new locations for the Zoo and has even set deadlines for a move. Despite all this, the Zoo still cannot see its future clearly.

The city council promised that the area of the Zoo will become a property of Perm’s bishopric in the future. The administration be-lieves that since this area used to be the property of Russian Orthodox Church till the Revolution of 1917, it would be fair to give the land

back to the bishop-ric at no expense.

Meanwhile the Zoo stifles from lack of space. The animals are crowded into a mere 2 hectares instead of the 30 hectares necessary.

The main candi-date for a future residence of the Zoo, Tchernyaevsky for-est, was eliminated due to the protest of Perm scientists and public.

Tchernyaevsky forest-park is a special landscape protection area. It is charged that the Zoo would have a negative influence on natural balance of the park. Besides, people living in the neighboring to the

park district don’t want to lose a good place for walks. And that’s the reason for the Perm authorities have begun to work on a new location for the Zoo.

During the last meeting at coun-cil, the new project passed prelimi-nary conformation. This plan supposes the transfer of the zoological garden into the zone, situ-ated on the Kama’s right riverside. The authorities intend to build up a rec-reation zone with a mini-park, a water park etc. This area

occupies 400 hect-ares. They plan to place the Zoo itself on 5-20 hectares of the land.

Meanwhile, of course, the new area also has some serious flaws. In par-ticular, the area is situated in the zone of catastrophic water flooding. Addition-ally, the area is now in a state of extreme desolation.

The city council added that the Zoo won’t move in the near future – nei-ther this, and, appar-ently, nor the next year. “The relocation of the Zoo is a time-taking and labori-ous process. It’s the work that can’t be done over a year”.

Animal Kingdom is on the Move

The Perm univer-sity was founded

as a branch of the St. Petersburg uni-versity on Ocotober 14th, 1916.

It was the first university at the territory of Ural, and being a “fore-father” of all the state universities in Perm, formed higher education system of the whole region. The status of inde-pendent university it received in May, 1917. A great contri-bution in the uni-versity foundation was made be N.V.

Meshkov, public figure, manufacturer and Maecenas. He provided his houses for educational buildings, apart-ments for teachers, appropriated half a

million rubles for the university main-tenance, scholar-ships, library acqui-sition, purchasing of antique collection for the antiquities and art museum.

the Perm state University celebrated its 91st birthday

The increase of birth-rate and decrease of death-rate is observed in the Perm region

In the Perm region for the 9 months of 2007 the bodies of registry office registered 24.5 thousand new-borns, which is almost 1.5 thousand more than for the same period last year.

At the same time in 46 territories of the Perm region reflected a decrease of the number of deaths registered.

A number of world famous archi-

tects, participants in the second round of the competition for the new Perm State Art Gallery building, arrived in Perm at the end of October.

Among the lu-minaries visiting Perm are: Hani Rashid, Wolfgang Prix, Eric Owen Moss, Hans Hol-lein, Lars Spuy-broek, Odille Decq and Zaha Hadid.

The architects visited the future building site of the Art Gallery and the surrounding area; the urban and cultural context where the design project will be placed. They also became acquainted with the collection and the conceptual framework of the Gallery’s develop-ment.

In total, there are 25 architects who have reached the second round of the competi-tion Perm Museum XXI. The results will be judged by the jury headed by Peter Zumthor. The prize fund for the competition is $300,000 (US) with the winner receiving $100,000.

Perm welcomes world known architects



News iN peRm

Lufthansa airlines announced that

they will expand routes and increase trip frequency dur-ing the winter time flight schedule.

The winter sched-ule of Lufthansa air-lines for 2007-2008 includes 188 destina-tions to 79 countries. There will now be 4 flights a week from Rostov-na-Donu, Nizniy Novgorod and Perm to Frank-furt. Also, for the first time, Lufthansa has organized spe-cial New Year trips Perm-Frankfurt and Kazan- Frankfurt that will be non-stop, reports the press service of the company.

For the winter schedule, Lufthansa

airlines will make 13,272 trips a week, a 2.9% increase over last year. This year Lufthansa airlines will also open new destinations with flights to Orlando (USA), Karachi and Lehor (Pakistan), Bordo (France), and Vroclav (Poland).

The winter schedule of 2007-2008 began on October 28, 2007 and will operate un-til March 29, 2008.

Currently, Perm is served by “Atlant-Sojuz”, “Aeroflot RA”, “Aeroflot-Nord”, “UTair”, and also “Aviaprad” as well as “Lufthansa”.

lufthansa adds another f light to its weekly Perm-frankfurt

route schedule

As part of the VII annual

Russian - German forum in Wiesbaden held recently, an Agreement on the establishment of sisterhood rela-tions between Perm and Duisburg was signed.

The President of the Russian Federa-tion Vladimir Putin and the chancellor of Germany of Angela Merkel were pres-ent at the signing ceremony.

Perm has two other sister cities: the city of Oxford, England

was “twinned” with Perm in 1990 fol-lowed by Louisville, Kentucky, USA in 1994.

A number of joint art and educational projects are planned between Perm and it’s newest sister city Duisburg, Germany.

Duisburg — the third “sister” city of Perm

The Regional Development

Investment program has adopted its budget for 2008-2010 with a total of 3.6 billion rubles ($US 144 Million) targeted at proj-ects throughout the region.

Highlighting this investment will be the Perm’s “Bol-shoye Savino” inter-national airport.

The specially created commis-sion identified 8 major projects in the program. It will, however, also con-sider applications on construction and reconstruction of other objects in the sphere of education, culture, transport,

housing-and-mu-nicipal service and social security cor-responding to the priorities of social and economic devel-opment of the Perm region. A financial reserve of 1.82 bil-lion rubles ($US 72.8 million) has been set aside for these new projects.

In the addition to the airport expan-sion and renova-tion, the 8 project currently identified also includes work on the “Perm Opera House, the building of a psychiatric-dis-pensary in Lysva and the construction of a prenatal centre in Perm.

the airport will be reconstructed

According to the forecasts of

«Rosaviatsiya», the cost of air transpor-tation in 2008 may increase by 40 %.

The head of the department Eug-eny Bachurin has declared that the deterioration of aircraft fleet of the domestic airlines coupled with the constant growth in prices for fuel will

contribute to the anticipated price rise. However, other experts are also pre-dicting these prices may not impact the Perm market. They believe the factors noted by Bachurin are basically applied to the Moscow mar-ket. These experts believe the recent and anticipated ar-rival of new com-petitors in the Perm market will hold

local prices down as they struggle to grow their share of the red hot Perm air market.

The volume of passenger traffic at the Perm airport “Bolshoye Savino” increased by 44% over last year. The volume of passen-ger traffic on flights international in Perm has also increased considerably in re-cent years.

the price of air tickets in the Perm region will not rise



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On October, 12th new optical

communication ca-ble plant “Eliks-Ca-bel-PNMPPK” began business in Perm.

The enterprise is design to produce more than 1,000 km of cable per month. A new research and practical use Cen-ter is planned to be created at the basis of the plant with support of Russian Academy of Science and the city higher education institu-tions.

The plant forms the basis of the “Perm scientific-in-dustrial instrument company”. The abil-ity to produce dif-ferent kinds of cable

for different service conditions will pro-vide an opportunity to perform orders for consumers from the Urals and neighbor-ing regions. It will also significantly reduce production time and transporta-tion expenses. The need for this prod-uct line is urgent because the optical cable is used in all fields where informa-tional technologies are required, which, today, includes virtu-ally every enterprise. The “Eliks-Cable-PNPPK” facility has targeted to take a 10-15% share of the rapidly growing market within Perm and its neighboring regions.

A new plant has been started in Perm

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“Landa Tour Voy-age” travel agency (Moscow) is inter-ested in operating a charter flights from Perm to one the Italian cities. Pres-ently, the project is at the exploratory stage, but experts in the tourist industry predict the program may be approved as early as April-May of next year. It is expected the char-ter program may be approved after

an agreement with the “Perm airlines”, which owns “Bol-shoe Savino” airport, has been reached. The travel agencies aspire to open the direct flight to Italy primarily because of increased pas-sengers flow. Ac-cording to the perm travel agencies, all the regional charter flights in 2007 are 100% full with all the tickets booked 1 or 2 months in advance.

Direct f light from Perm to italy starting

summer 2008

At the meeting, held on October, 5th, the Perm region government con-firmed an investment program for road construction period 2008-2010. 10.07 bil-lion rubles will be allotted for construc-tion of the regional roads within that program.

As the Perm region administration in-forms, the first order objects for 2008 are such road sections as Perm-Krasnoka-msk, Kosa-Solika-msk, southern Perm bypass and second part of Krasavinskiy bridge.

The objects are planned to be placed in operation in September 2008, 713.1 million rubles

will be appropriated to fulfill this term. Also the program, compiled till 2010, includes construc-tion of bypass of Polazna, and such routes as Perm-Ber-ezniki, Perm-Chai-kovskiy, Kudym-kar-Syktyvkar, reconstruction of eastern Perm bypass, crossing of Stakha-novskaya str.-Iva, project of second part of Chosovaya river bridge con-struction.

The investment program, designed for three years, is based on develop-ment project of roads network, worked out by road agency of the Perm region for period from 2016 to 2036.

10 billion rubles will be allotted for repair

works of roads in Perm

The company Golden Telecom,

an international supplier of telecom-munication and internet services, intends to invest about $1.3 bil-lion on developing broadband internet access in 65 regions in Russia within the bounds of the proj-ect Triple-65.

Strategic plans of the company presup-pose a more intense development of the broadband access to the internet in Perm. At small part of the local Perm broad-band market was acquired by Golden Telecom as a result

of its purchase of the “A-Tel” com-pany which provides services to private organizations.

Perm is in the list of top 20 prospec-tive Russian cities from the point of developing broad-band internet ac-cess to the internet and with the help of program Triple-65 the company intends to increase service by locating company representatives in the target markets.

Today about 40% of Perm inhabitants use internet access services.

Information source:Business class newspaper

A new player appears on the Perm internet

market

A Perm region delegation took part in the global Russian exhibition-forum “Orthodox Russia-2007”. The exhibi-tion took part from the 1st to the 4th of November in the Moscow Expocentre. Perm senator Andrei Klimov was on hand to participate in the work of the forum.

At the 2nd interre-gional Orthodox Ex-hibition “Orthodox

Russia-2007” one can get acquainted with cloisters and cathedrals, church attributes, orthodox publishing houses, icon-painting, art-restoration and jewelry masters, peal casting and other handcrafted items.

Source: newspa-per “Noviy Region – Perm”.

Source: newspaper “Noviy Region – Perm”.

Perm region took part in “Orthodox russia-2007”

7 PaGenovember �007


News iN peRm

From November, 26 till Novem-

ber, 30 the festival “Jazz-fever” will be held in Perm. The festival is devoted to the memory of of Henry Terpilovs-kiy, a well known local musician and composer, one of the founding figures of Russian jazz who had worked in Perm many years.

The first “Jazz-

fever” was held in Perm last year. It’s success motivated the organizers to make it an annual event on the local music scene. This year the festival will expand participation to include musicians from the entire Perm region and not just the Perm city musi-cians as was done last year.

The musicians will “kick-off” the start of the festival in Perm on November, 26 followed up on successive days with festival performances in various other cit-ies within the Perm region. The festival

will end on Novem-ber, 30 with a gala concert to be held in the Cultural Busi-ness centre of Perm. The concert will in-clude both local and foreign jazz stars.

Next year the musician Henry Terpilovskiy would have been 100 years. If this years festival continues the suc-cess begun with the first festival, it is hoped the “Jazz - fever” festival will be able to mark this oc-casion with an even bigger event.

Perm “Jazz-fever” will start again

Models, repre-sentatives of

ateliers, light indus-try, shoe workshops and many other representatives of fashion industry have decided to unite, following the call of the Ministry of Development of Small and Medium Size Enterprises of Perm Krai.

The object is to create a professional fashion-association to address common business and cre-ative work concerns.

“This enterprising group has already begun to establish an association. In the near future we’ll

start working out Regulations and preparing documents for registration. Everybody who is interested in estab-lishing a sectoral association is invited to take part in this work”, announced Larissa Kleyner, the initiator of the asso-ciation and the pres-ident of the fashion festival “Brilyantova-ya bulavka”(Brilliant pin).

Elena Guilyazova, a minister of trade, thinks that “we’ve got a great risk for having a fashion in-dustry that does not “grow” only because nobody “waters” it. So let’s do it!”.

fashion on a professional basis

On October 30, 2007, a memo-

rial devoted to the victims of political repression was un-veiled and dedicated in the city of Solika-msk, located some 300 km to the north of Perm.

The name “Solika-msk” has a special meaning in the history of Russia. In Soviet times it became a shelter for thousands of “public enemies”. Virtu-ally all the industrial capacity and infra-structure of Solika-msk was created with the “slave” la-bor of those people. They built apartment buildings, municipal structures and a host of other community roads and buildings

Throughout the Soviet era, the so-called antagonistic elements of Soviet society were exiled to Solikamsk and then “written off”. Despite many the thousands who were sent to work there, one can only find about 500 data cards in the Perm archives for the “exile” em-ployees who built and worked at the various potassium and magnesium

plants of Solikamsk. A paper mill was also created with the labor of many thou-sands of political prisoners and their family members. In the early days of the Second World War, 15 thousand “mobi-lized” Germans were sent to the city of Solikamsk to build defense installations. Another 15 thousand Soviet citizens were forced to work at lumber camps in the region of Usolye.

These repressed citizens have been passed over in silence for a long time. They have no graves. Even the locations of the mass graves for those who

were shot during this period were kept strictly confidential and have been lost to posterity.

It only seems rea-sonable, now, when the horrors of the past have been final-ly brought into the light of day for there to be Solikamsk where the descen-dents of these long suffering people could come to lay flowers, a place for people to come and find peace and re-flection on from this bitter page in the history of Russia.

The initiative of the memorial cre-ation belongs to the head of Ger-man Cultural Soci-

ety of Solikamsk, Edward Grib. For its part, the city administration has fully supported the undertaking. Last September, a fund-raising for the me-morial construction started. Money re-sources flew in from ordinary Solikamsk inhabitants, from large corporations as well as from the few surviving “re-pressed” and their descendents. The proceeds from this effort have been used to construct the memorial and provide some mea-sure of assurance that the suffering of those people will not be forgotten.

Bitter page in the history of solikamsk

Recently, the medical corpora-

tion “Medlife” made a donation to Perm regional hospital for war veterans by do-nating rehabilitation equipment, medi-cal tools and other needed essentials worth over 560,000 rubles ($22.4 thou-sand US).

At a ceremony to mark the occasion held in front of staff and patients, the head of the hospital Leonid Starodubcev

thanked Medlife’s Director Vyacheslav Loginov and ex-plained the value of donation to the hospital patients.

“I want to thank medical corporation “Medlife” for the goodwill gesture. For the first time, a private medical es-tablishment supports a Perm regional hospital. Our only goal at the facil-ity is to rehabilitate our patients”, said Leonid Starodub-cev. He added “The

equipment that was donated will increase the effectiveness of rehabilitation at the hospital and will let us broaden the spec-trum of rehabilitation treatment as well as facilitate the work of our dentists”.

At present time, the patient treats those actively serv-ing in the mili-tary as well as the veterans who have served in military conflicts through-out the world. In addition, the hos-

pital continues to provide rehabilita-tion services for the veterans and inva-lids of World War 2. The facility has specialist in geron-tology, diagnostics, therapy, neurology and cardiology. The two medical blocks of the hospital can accommodate 500 patients. Hospital patients range in age is from 19 to 100 years old.

Information source: CompanjONline

charity help from “Medlife”



BusiNessa Review of PeRM ReGioN iNdustRy

Oil — BlAcK GOlD Of the UrAls

By Olga Rayngardt

The Perm region is well known for the recovery and process-ing of its abundant natural resources. The rich landscape of the region provides a great the opportunity for the growth of these key industries. Perm Region’s engineer-ing, chemical and petroleum industries are making a mark for themselves on both home and foreign markets.

The fuel and chemi-cal industries have developed mainly due to the local availability of raw materials. The oil and gas industry in Perm has developed into a modern, power-ful and vertically inte-grated complex of oil and gas processing.

One of the basic factors to reflect the real condition of the regional industry is the value of its prod-uct throughput. This includes the cost of manufactured goods, services as well as the income from the re-sale of goods bought elsewhere (without taxation, excises and other obligatory pay-ments) for use in the local industrial pro-cess.

According to the data obtained from the January-Novem-ber 2006, the turnover for the all enterprises in the “Mining Re-sources” sector was 69.3 billion rubles ($US 277 million) and 292.8 billion rubles ($US 11.7 billion) for “Processing Industries”.

The turnover for “Mining Resources” enterprises is princi-pally from the gas/oil sector. The biggest component in “Pro-cessing Industries” turnover and as in the volume of goods pro-duced is also from this sector as well as from the production of coke from coal.

In comparison with 2005 figures oil pro-duction has increased by 286.5 thousand tones (2,8%). Among the basic oil refining products, the amount of diesel fuel increased (by 14,3%), naval black oil grew (by 10.2%). The volume of pri-mary oil refining was 98,6% 2004 levels. Not all product sectors increased. The manu-facture of automobile gasoline went down slightly by 0.4%), black oil by 22.3% and lubri-cant oils by 7.6%.

As of January 1, 2007, “large” and “av-erage” Perm compa-nies together earned

79.3 billion rubles ($US 3.2 billion) in profits which is a 20% increase over the pre-vious year. More than half of this profit was earned by processing industries, some 40,9 billion rubles ($US1.6 billion), while 38.9% of the total was earned by chemical produc-tion and mineral oil production firms.

The largest regional enterprises engaged in oil production and oil refining are «Lukoil - Perm», «Permoblneft», «Eurasia - Perm». The presence in Perm of specialized scientific centres and the highly skilled staff provide are

a strong factor in this presence.

The 2006-7 data also revealed that the highest average salary within the process-ing industry was in coke and mineral oil production where workers earned an average of 25,985 rubbles ($US 1,040) a month. In comparison with December, 2005, wages have increased by 33%.

The dynamics of development of in-dustries such as in oil recovery and produc-tion and, in particular, in the production of mineral oil, have demonstrated signifi-cant growth patterns in recent years. Accord-ingly, this trend makes the industries attractive for investors result-ing in further growth and development. This trend seems to be triggering a new age in the development of the Perm region. With this growth in “Black gold” industries, as oil is known, there is growing confidence that this industry will remain the core of the regional economy for the 21st Century.

ActivitiesindustriAl Produc-tion growth (%)vs.

2005

Mining ResouRces 105.7

PRocessing industRies, including 100.7

WoodWoRking 99.8

PulP and PaPeR industRy; Publishing and PolygRaPhist WoRk

97.8

PRoduction of coke and PetRoleuM deRivatives; nucleaR PRoduction

105.1

cheMical PRoduction 96.6

guM and Plastic PRoduction 77.9

steel PRoduction and Metal PRoducts 104.9

engineeRing 104,7

electRics, electRonics and oPtics PRoduction

121.4

PRoduction of vehicles and equiPMent

92.3

electRic PoWeR, gas and WateR PRoduction and allocation

100.0

“Permsky” branch of raiffeisenbank participates in “Loans. Investments.

Insurance 2007” finance expo

From September 13 till September 16 “Permsky” branch of ZAO Raiffeisenbank Austria has participated in the annual “Loans. Investments. Insurance” finance expo. Exhibition booth of the bank has at-tracted visitors with its bright yellow-black appearance and proactive approach of Impexbank and Raiffeisenbank representa-tives. Visitors were able to learn about the products offered by both banks as well as the upcoming merger of JSC Impexbank and ZAO Raiffeisenbank Austria. At the closing ceremony “Permsky” branch was awarded with a certificate for “Offering wide range of services for private individu-als and middle market companies”.

Over 80 participants from various re-gions of the country have taken in the 4-th “Loans. Investments. Insurance” expo. The government of Perm Krai, city administra-tion, Main Territorial Department of the Bank of Russia for Perm Krai, Perm Guild of Insurers and United Perm Bar Associa-tion acted as official sponsors of the event. “Loans. Investments. Insurance” expo is held annually to promote banking, insur-ance and factoring services for general population, highlighting newest technolo-gies and financial market possibilities, establishing business contacts between financial market companies, corporations, entrepreneurs and general population. as well as encouraging participation of for-eign and leading Russian banks and other financial institutions in economic develop-ment programs of Ural and Volga regions.

During the expo “Permsky” branch of Raiffeisenbank has presented a new prod-uct – “Investment” deposit with higher than average interest. Apart from that visi-tors have shown great interest in mortgage programs and car loans.

ZAO Raiffeisenbank Austria and OAO Impexbank are subsidiaries of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG. In 2006 Raiffeisen International purchased 100% shares of IMPEXBANK. Together Raiffeisenbank and Impexbank form the largest foreign-owned banking group in Russia, ranking 7th in terms of assets among top Russian banks based on H1 2007 results (Inter-fax-CEA). Raiffeisen Group is ranked 6th in terms of corporate lending based on H1 2007 results (Interfax-CEA). According to Interfax-CEA, the banks together ranked 4th in Russia in terms of private deposits and 5th in consumer lending in Russia based on H1 2007.Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG (Raiffeisen International) operates the largest banking network in CEE. 18 markets of Europe’s growth region are cov-ered by subsidiary banks, finance leasing companies, two representative offices and a number of other fi-nancial service providers. About 12.7 million custom-ers are attended to through more than 2,950 business outlets. Raiffeisen International is a fully consolidated subsidiary of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG (RZB), which owns 70 per cent of the common stock. The remaining 30 per cent is free float, the shares are traded on the Vienna Stock Exchange. RZB is a leading corporate and investment bank in Austria and the central institution of the Austrian Raiffeisen Banking Group, the country’s largest banking group.



BusiNessinDUstriAl leADers Of the PerM KrAi:

OPen Jsc “MetAfrAX”The “METAFRX” com-

pany was founded in 1955. At the time, it seemed a small chemical plant with few prospects for develop-ment. Today, however, Open JSC “METAFRAX” is a modern, financially stable, multi-disciplined enterprise that, for several years, has ranked among the 200 larg-est companies of Russia. It has achieved this success through productivity increas-es coupled with closely fol-lowing industry and trends and markets which has al-lowed it to steadily increase its production volume.

Primarily, “METAFRAX” is the first-rate producer of methanol in Russia, the supply of which constitutes about 40% of the all-Russian methanol market. Technical methanol “A” produced in by “METAFRAX” is success-fully delivered both to the Russian domestic and inter-national markets. According to its qualitative adjectives, it complies with the severe requirements of all national and international standards. Although methanol is consid-ered to be “METAFRAX” ma-jor product, the enterprise has escaped the fate of a “placing all its eggs in one basket”.

According to the Complex Program of the Company Development adopted for the next several years, the com-pany presently focused on production development.

In 2003, “METAFRAX” set up a new urea-formaldehyde concentrate (UFC) plant with productive capacity of 60 thousand tons per year. The facility was designed by the Swedish company “PERSTORP FORMOX”, a recognized world leader in formaldehyde production

engineering. In 2004, another UFC

plant was brought on line. A third facility started up a year later. As a result of this expansion, “METAFRAX” is now the largest producer of UFC in Russia.

In October 2004, a new urea-formaldehyde resin manufacturing plant op-erated by the joint ven-ture “METADINEA” (“METAFRAX” and the Finnish company “DINEA CHEMICALS Oy”) began production. Already, “META-DINEA” is one of the prin-cipal players in the Russian synthetic resins market.

In 2006, “METAFRX”, working with the Austrian company “PÖRNER” set a formalin plant with produc-tive capacity of 270 tons per year into operation. The same year a large-scale methanol works reconstruc-tion was accomplished with the help of the Swiss compa-ny “METHANOL CASALE”.

Current plans include the construction of a new para-formaldehyde production plant. The German com-pany “MEISNER” will act as technology supplier, while engineering will be accom-plished by the Austrian part-ner “PÖRNER”. According to Armen Garslyan, chairman of board of directors of the company “METAFRAX”, this plant can be called unique. There is only one more experimental small-capacity plant of this kind in Russia within the company “URAL-CHIMPLAST” (Nizhni Tagil, Sverdlovsk region).

“Production volume is not determined yet”, says Garsly-an, “however its tentative capacity is set to be around 20-30 thousand tons per year.

We will principally head for the European market, al-though supply may provoke product demand in Russia”. The new paraformaldehyde plant is scheduled to begin operation at the end of 2009.

“METAFRAX”’s immediate plans include a urotropine works reconstruction. “Cur-rently, “METAFRAX” is the biggest urotropine manufac-turer in Russia. Today we actually start to construct a entirely new facility, an urotropine plant that will be the most modern in Europe. It took us a long time to choose which would be the best technology. We are looking forward to enter-ing a crowded European urotropine market”, says Garslyan. The German com-pany “MEISNER” will act as technology supplier. Plant construction will take ap-proximately two years. About 60% of the plant output is consigned to be exported to Europe, Brazil, Argentina and other countries.

Garslyan reports that at the moment, “METAFRAX” top-managers are search-ing for potential partners for other chemical works with the company. Garslayn said: “It is essential to construct a large carbamide and am-monia plant. At present we are working on this matter in order to determine for ourselves with whom, how and where to construct it. It will be an absolutely new kind of plant. We constantly keep in touch with co-in-vestors, manufactures and engineering companies to have a full picture. I can-not say yet when it will be accomplished. In general construction of such a plant with 600-650 thousand tons per year capacity will take about 4 years”.

It is apparently that the company’s history has been one of constant forward movement. Today Open JSC “METAFRAX” is one of the few Russian enterprises of a European standard whose success is not governed by monopoly or raw materi-als exploitation but rather by the application of mod-ern technologies and high production standards. Is this reason “METAFRAX” remains in the forefront of industry in the Perm region and in the Russian chemical complex.

ResuLts of the CoMPaNy’s aCtivity oveR the PeRiod of 9 MoNths iN the yeaR of 2007

Production volume and shipments for the first 9 months of 2007 comes to 5.2 billion ru-bles ($US 206.1 Million) which exceeds its 2006 showing for the same period by 35%. These results seem to prove that ambitious manage-ment plans for annual product output of 7 bil-lion rubles in 2007 are achievable. Total volume of exports over the period of 9 months is about 41%; with 2.12 billion rubles ($US 84.8 Million) shipped for export.

In this same 9 month period, the compa-ny produced 696 thousand tons of methanol (35% more than in 2006). This pace will allow “METAFRAX” to reach one of its major goals — production of 1 million ton of methanol per year.

Also in the first 9 months of 2007, the com-pany produced about 203 thousand tons of 37% formaline. Production volume of the urea-formaldehyde concentrate, which the company has produced since 2003, increased by 10% and constitutes 150 thousand tons. The company has also produced about 15 thousand tons of pentaerythritol (28% more than last year), about 11 thousand tons of urotropine, over 7 thousand tons of sodium formate and about 850 tons of bulk and granulated polyamide.

Open JSC “METAFRAX” balance sheet profit increased more than twice and constituted 1.552 Billion rubles ($US 62.1 Million) over the period the first 9 months of 2007.

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BusiNess

Chusovskoi Met-allurgic Plant,

part of the United Metallurgic Com-pany, was recently included in a list of the largest fed-eral holding “sub-units” working in the greater Ural region.

The plant was ranked 15th out of 50 companies report-ing export volume more than $130

Million. Altogether there are more than 500 “sub-units” which included in the ratings.

During 2006, the main exports of the Chusovskoi plant were the pig iron (to Spain and Belgium) and ferrovanadium FVD 50 (to Nether-lands and Ukraine). Presently “CMP” has export contracts totaling more than $280 Million.

chusovskoi Metallurgic Plant

ranks highIn the very near

future, the Perm region, Archan-gelsk region, Komi republic and the «Russian Railroad” company will sign an agreement for the construction of a «Belkomur» main, to connect three northern regions. The project was begun 1993, but is only now to be fully realized.

The Belkomur Main will total 1252 km, 795 of which are to be constructed under the project which will result in a significant shorten-ing of distances (by 10-30%) between the three regions. The existing sec-tions are owned by «Russian Railroad» whose interest in the project is based on a projected rise of the differ-ent freight flows through the new main. The Russian Railway will fund the construction of the proposed addi-tional rail branches.

It is planned to execute the proj-ect in two steps. The first one is

three-year construc-tion of the railroad «northern section» from Archangelsk to Syktyvkar, which length will be 672 km. After the sec-tion is placed in operation, freight operation distances will be shortened by 160-420 km and freight cost reduced by 20-65%. This first phase will also provide direct ac-cess to the sea ports of Archangelsk and Murmansk.

The second phase, scheduled to be

complete in the following 5 years, includes the con-struction of the “southern section” (Syktyvkar-Gainy-Solikamsk), which will connect Syk-tyvakar to Transsi-birskaya trunk-rail-way. Construction of this section will reduce the cost of transportation by 40-50% and shorten distances of freight transportation by 300-800 km or even more. That will provide the short-est way from the

Komi republic to Urals and allow for the direct delivery of goods from Urals to Archangelsk, Karelia and ports of Finland. That is exactly why all the experts are certain that “Belkomur” will solve not only domestic goods transportation prob-lems, but also will be able to extend the export potential of the country.

The project’s effectiveness has been verified by the experts. They estimated that the project would pay for itself in 6.5 years. Moreover the project will create substantial employ-ment growth. The project will include the staffing of at least 25 permanent facilities in addi-tion to the large numbers of work-ers required for the huge construction effort. The proj-ect has attracted of both Northern Europe and the USA and may make the new the “Belko-mur” Main railway an important part of the international transport corridor.

«Belkomur» project is speeding up

The Perm admin-istration has an-

nounced winners of the second stage of “The best city en-terprise for produc-tivity and solving social problems” contest. The contest was organized by the department of industrial policy, investments and business as well as the city administra-tion. 36 Perm com-panies participated in the competition, 17 of which became winners and laure-ates.

The participants were divided into 3 groups according to the number of em-

ployees employed; Group I, less than 100 employees; Group II, 100-500 employees; Group III, more than 500 employees. In the category of produc-tion effectiveness, nominations for companies were rat-ed by such indices as labor productiv-ity, profitability, net profit per employee, ratio of expenses to innovations, to the product prime cost and expenses for environmental protection.

Winners were chosen by the con-test commission on the basis of rating of the enterprises

socio-economic indices for 2006, which were com-piled by department of industrial policy, investments and business.

The Leaders in “Pocessing Indus-tries” category are “Torgmash” plant (Group II), “Reduc-tor-PM” (Group III).

The Leaders in “Chemicals and oil products pro-duction” category are “Ashlen MSP” (Group I), “Henkel-Pemos” (Group II) and “LUKOIL-Perm-neftorgsynthez” (Group III).

The winners in “Machinery, elec-trical equipment

and measurement instrumentation production” contest are “Iskra-Energet-ica” (Group II) and “Perm motors plant” (Group III).

The laureates in the “Cellulose, wooden goods pro-duction and printing industry” competi-tion are “Saw-timber “Krasniy Octiabr”” (Group II) and “Goznak” (Group III).

“Perm flour-grind-ing plant” was named the winner in the “Food products industry” segment.

Information source:prm.ru

industrial leaders named in Perm

european Marketing at Perm industrial

enterprise

On November 6th and 7th, the

“Industrial enter-prise marketing” training seminar was held by Center of Professional out-sourcing and busi-ness management with the support of the Perm Chamber of Commerce.

According to many participants of the seminar «Business-to-Business”, a market having such features as a limited number of parties to a contract, a complex purchase decision and the a high importance of personal relationships, had special signifi-cance to the Prikamye industrial market due to the fact that the industry, as well as the region in general, is frequently closed for newcomers.

Such issues as marketing nature and concept, collection and analysis of mar-keting information ar-

rangements, marketing research, segmentation and positioning, and also product policies, pricing, marketing communications and distribution system were discussed at the seminar. Moreover, every participant could elect to take part in «Sectoral analysis» and «Problem Area for the marketing indus-try» roundtables. The lectures were conduct-ed by representatives of marketing depart-ments from such Perm enterprises as OAO ZHBK-1 «, “Scientific-research institute of chemical goods”, “Sor-bent” and others.

The Center of Pro-fessional outsourcing and business manage-ment made a good start on the process of implementing global marketing principles into mentality of Prikamye. This time is right to, as they say, let the ignorance pass in the sea of knowl-edge and crafts.



BusiNess

For the first time, on October 16,

2007, the Regional Office of Industry and Natural Re-sources sold three lots of wood at an auction organized.

All the lots went for a surprisingly high price and if all the winners confirm their bids, the bud-get of the region will benefit from some 100 million rubles. Analysts believe that is was investors who wished to use the lots for site develop-ment and not just wood harvesting who increased the price dramatically.

Regardless, how-ever, the local

authorities are satis-fied with the results. “Our target is to earn not only on the wood but also on its

repartition. This auc-tion showed that the regional forest area is very valuable as a resource”.

Wood sold out

Top-1000 Russian managers” rat-

ing has been recent-ly compiled within a joint project of Russian Manag-ers Association and “Kommersant” newspaper.

The Perm region is well represented in the list in which the Russian business community identi-fied chairmen of leading companies

from many different industries.

Included in the list of Russian top managers are the following leaders in the Perm business community: Victor Baranov, the “So-likamskbumprom” president; Ivan Kostin, the “Motovi-likhinskiye plants” director general; Anatoliy Ufimkin, the director general of “Uralsvyazin-

form”; Konstan-tin Podvalniy, the director general of “Ermak”. Also honored in the list are almost all the “chemists” of the region: Petr Kondra-shev, the “Silvinit” director general; Vladimir Daut, the “Metafraks” direc-tor general; and Vladislav Baumgert-ner, the director general of “Uralka-liy”.

Perm representatives of the best russian managers list

The department of privatization of

city administration announced an auc-tion for its shares in the large Perm building company “Kamskaya Dolina”. The auction took place on October, 31, 2007.

The budget of the city includes plans to get at least 55 million rubles based on the initial price of its share hold-ings. The city owns 7,64% of the autho-rized capital stock of “Kamskaya Doli-na” and accounting

for 268,882 shares with the nominal price of 0,25 rubles each.

city Administration sells out the shares of public

corporation “Kamskaya Dolina”

In the beginning of October, the

“Red Wings” and “Volga - Dnepr” airlines both bought planes equipped with PS-90A engines manufactured by the Perm Motor com-pany.

‘Red Wings’ bought the plane “TU - 204-100” from the compa-ny «Ilyushin Finance Company» on con-ditions of financial leasing for the period of 15 years. “Volga - Dnepr” purchased its second IL – 76TD-90VD.

Both types of the planes are equipped with dif-ferent versions of the PS-90A engine. These engines can be flown in Europe as they meet the ICAO requirements on noise and emis-sion of harmful substances into the atmosphere.

“Volga - Dnepr” company plans to enlarge its fleet with three IL – 76TD-90VD’s by 2010. At the same time, Red Wings and “Ilyushin Finance Company” have signed a con-

tract for the delivery of five more planes TU - 204 with the new engine modifi-cation PS-90A2. The price of this contract will make about $170 million.

In August, 2007 during Moscow aerospace exposi-tion MAKS-2007, Red Wings signed a contract to purchase six liners TU - 204. Based on current plans, by 2010 the airline will become the largest buyer of Russian planes TU - 204 equipped with engines PS-90A.

Airlines purchase planes equipped with Perm engines Ps90A

An Austrian com-pany “Krono-

span” has selected a 100 hectares site in Dobryanka to po-tentially construct a factory to manu-facture low-density wood chipboard Manufacture.

Spokesmen for the company indi-cate the investment would total some €300 million. Dobry-anka is located some 60km north of Perm City.

An initial invest-ment of some €80 million is expected within the first year for the construction of the factory. Start-up is expected to be within two years from the start of

construction. The advantage for

locating the factory in the Perm region centers on its use of many waste byproducts from the region’s wood-working industry. This “waste” is an essential component in the manufacture of low-density wood chipboard, laminate, etc. If it is placed in Perm region, then products of Joint-Stock Com-pany «Metadinea» (pitch and glues) will be also used in manufacturing pro-cess. Usually, when “Kronospan” builds a factory, it builds the installation for pitch-manufacturing as well among other

capacities. How-ever an exception will be made for Perm. According to the general direc-tor of Open JSC “Metafrax” Armen Garsljan, the arrival of this company to our region will allow Joint-Stock Company «Meta-dinea» to increase its manufacture of pitches by 200 thou-sand tons.

“Kronospan” also began the construc-tion of manufactur-ing facilities in the Egoryevsk area of Moscow region in 2002. Today “Krono-span” is the lead-ing manufacturer of wood plates and the floor laminated cov-erings in Russia.

the Austrian company will construct a factory

Trade representa-tives of several

European countries are seeking contact with the official of various firms within the Perm region.

The interest in Perm’s exports came about as a result of the “Promotion of Perm

Companies Products” campaign recently launched by the Perm Ministry of Com-merce. Included in the campaign was infor-mation collected from a host of Perm compa-nies. The information was sent it to repre-sentatives of many countries such as Italy,

Germany, Holland, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Perm offers the world’s market many unique and cost effective products which the campaign seeks to publicize along with the firms within the Perm region who pro-duce them.

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In the course of the last seve-

ral years the hotel business market in Perm has been very active, demonstrat-ing the progressive development of all spheres of busi-ness in Perm. The growing volume of Russian and foreign visitors has gener-ated demand for both an increase in the number accom-modations and in a rise in quality of the lodging being provided.

There are today in Perm about 50 hotels (including mini hotels). In addition, the local the hotel market in Perm is represented both by private mini hotels and by caravanserais which add another 400 rooms for visitors.

According to levels of services, addi-tional functions and categories of clients, the hotels of Perm generally fall into four groups:

1. Old hotels of the “soviet” standard – such hotels occupy 50%

of the hotel services market in Perm. To this group belong such hotels as “Ural” (“Almaz Urala”), “Prikamie”, “Dyna-mo”, “Tsentralnaja” and “Profsouznaja”. These hotels often have a more favor-able location by virtue of almost ex-clusive rights during

russian hospitalityreview of the hotel business market in Perm

welcome befitting a nobleman The new hotel “Viscount” awaits elite business guests

in the Perm city center

The “Viscount” format provides for the room transformation into a mini-office. And hotel dining zone can easily be transformed into a meeting room for tete-a-tete negotiations, holding seminars, fourchettes and business meeting with the use of available multi-media equipment.

“Viscount” provides its guests with transfer services, car parking or car rental complete with driver. You can even book plane and train tickets with-out leaving your room.

Every room features beds for two, a suite of upholstered furniture, mini-bar, a safe and a desk with all the necessary writing-materials. The need of the business traveler for advanced communications is also ad-dressed. Long distance and international telephone lines, facsimile, Wi-Fi Internet, area are all available in each room and laptop computers are available on request.

Translator-interpreter and business translations services are also avail-able.

the soviet years of building in compari-son with the newly built hotels. One more distinguishing trait of this category of hotels is a bulk of rooms. Target clients of this group of hotels are the most “economic” includ-ing religious groups, tourist groups, groups of schoolchil-dren, students and sportsmen. As a rule, hotels offer both low class rooms and presidential suites. Generally, the avail-ability of business-class rooms in these hotels is very limited or not available at all. The typical fur-nishing of the rooms includes a television set, telephone, re-frigerator, bath-room and furniture. In the hotel, there can be found a restaurant, laundry, possibly sport and training halls, playing room for children, aviation and railway ticket offices and parking. In the biggest hotels of this group there may also be a swim-ming pool, confer-ence hall and hair-dressing saloon.

Room furnishings in these hotels are renewed but the quality of service provokes complaints. The low level of service is mainly caused by the low level of competi-tion which should be regarded as a result

of small number of functioning hotels. The building boom in the hotel business and the appearance of the new progres-sive hotels is a recent phenomenon and not yet reflected in the economics of the older hotels. These hotels have not had enough time to reorganize them-selves. For the most of them reorganiza-tion is a long pro-cess because of their inertness and low portability caused by their large sizes. On the other hand, be-cause of the fact that hotel business in Perm was, for a long period of time, stag-nate, and it appears their management is not ready yet for the changes taking place in the market.

2. Business-hotels – such hotels occupy 30% of the hotel services market in Perm and mainly target busi-ness tourists. To this group belong such hotels as “Grand Hotels”, “Amaks”,

“Eurotel”, “Kama”, “New Star Hotel”, “Park-Hotel” as well as “Plaza Olympia”. The “Plaza Olym-pia” is the first hotel in the Perm region to receive four-star hotel status.

From the point of view of conformity with present-day de-mands, this category of hotels is more competitive as these hotels were built in the last several years and their owners took current stan-dards into account. The first thing one finds in these hotels is the style of the interior in which some idea is always presented. The range of services may be much wider as well. For example to traditional list of ser-vices may be added a massage room, beauty saloon, sauna, billiards and casino. Room interiors may include a jacuzzi as well as mini-bars, a convenient but expensive feature of many business hotels around the world. Some these hotels there are also ex-

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pensive suite rooms, business class rooms and some even of-fer economy class rooms.

3. Mini hotels – such hotels form about 13% of the hotel services mar-ket in Perm and are made for different categories of visi-tors. Examples of this class include: “Mon-ica”, “Xozjaushka”, “Sport-hotel”, “Hotel”, “Galatea”, “Mikos”, “Nicole”, “Gloria” and “Astor” hotel that officially takes up a three-star mini hotel status. Most often hotels of this category are not “true” hotels in a normal meaning of this word. Usually such hotels are situ-ated in the buildings that are not intended for that purpose. Often they occupy one or several floors in an apartment building have at their disposal a limited number of rooms (10 rooms at the aver-age) and offer a wide range in taste and style.

This class of hotels (often called “bou-tique hotels”) is very “hot” in the world market, and very promising in the Perm hotel market. Definitely, tomorrow is with them.

4. Hostels of hotel type – ho-tels form about 7% of the hotel market in Perm. Included are the hotels “Ubileinaja”, “Sput-nik” and “Gostinit-sa na ulitse Revo-lutsii”. These hotels are characterized by worn out rooms and the absence of the elementary conveniences and additional services, often accompanied by poor service. In reality they do not meet the require-ments made of ho-tels and occupy the very lowest end of the market place.

Summing up, it is clear there is a considerable lack of the medium and high category hotels in Perm. Inadequate development of the hotel business in Perm is partially caused by its repu-tation as simply an industrial region. Also, the presence of a number of previously “secret”

factories meant that Perm was, for a long period of time, even closed to for-eigners and contin-ued to discourage development for a long time. The hotel services market in Perm is only now in the formation stage and is extremely far from satura-tion. Taking into consideration the growth in the busi-ness development of Perm coupled with obsolescence in the city’s hotel economy (more than 70% of the market), Perm is an attrac-tive city for the realization of hotel projects.

In Perm the erec-tion of several new hotels is sched-uled in the near future, according to official reports. The Perm city and regional adminis-trations both offer help to develop-ers in the realiza-tion of large-scale hotel projects (100 rooms) both through allotment of building sites and through the attraction of local investors.

Under conditions of growing compe-tition, the appear-ance of new opera-tors, both Russian and foreign cannot help but result in a corresponding rise the quality of ser-vices provided in Perm hotels. Recent announced entries into the Perm mar-ket include the Hil-ton Company with its partner London & Regional Proper-ty Limited and the Moscow Company LLC “KaSa-Stroy” whose founders are Turkish companies Kayi Insaat and E-I Group.

KD Group Com-pany plans to

invest about 500 million rubles ($US 20 million) into the “Southern manor” country housing proj-ect located in Kultae-vo village of the Perm Territory.

In total, 60 thou-sand sq. m. of

country habitation are planned for the 70 ha site by 2012. The realization of the project will take place in three stag-es. Within the first stage of the project for the building of 32 brick single-level 283 sq. m. houses on. The Company has already invested

150 million rubles ($US 6 million) in the project since December of the last year.

During the sec-ond stage, 25 brick two-level townhouses with 233 sq. m. area are planed. A third stage will include 120 two-room, 311 sq. m. houses.

KD Group invests 500 million rubles in project “southern manor”

CouNtRy ReaL estate

The building of the first “econ-

omy class” cottage village in a suburb of Perm is planned.

The building will start early next year. The total area of the site is about 165 ha, with the building of 1,200 houses planned. A reduction of the project prices will be achieved thanks to cost-effective

building materi-als (siding, wood, brick) and the large area of the site. The price per square me-ter in the village is expected to average 20 thousand rubles ($US 800) on top of a building which may be bought for 3 million rubles ($US 120,000).

Analysts note that on the whole, the start of such a proj-ect will not signifi-

cantly influence the development of the country real estate market as build-ers will continue to concentrate on the hot market for elite and business-class cottages and town-houses. It is only this market which will justify remov-ing the lot from the agricultural status and building of an infrastructure system.

the first economy class cottage village

Perm Territory residents took out

4,428 mortgage hous-ing loans worth 5.25 billion rubles ($US 210 Million) for the January-September 2007 period.

This was twice the

volume of housing loans targeted for Perm within the na-tional project “Rea-sonable and comfort-able domicile” by the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.

there is a mortgage boom in Perm territory

CorrectionThere was an error in the September 1-15,

2007 edition article “Stars for hotels”. The first certified hotel in Perm (according to the new classification system) was, in fact, the hotel “Polyet” (3 stars). A certificate confirming the category of the hotel was received on January 25, 2007. We apologize for this error.



In Perm, just as across the whole

of Russia, active tourism is back in fashion. The Win-ter Olympic Games in 2014, which will take place in the Russian city of So-chi, have already in-creased the popular-ity of winter sports.

The demand for winter sports was previously quite big, and has increased dramatically. As a result several com-panies have an-nounced their plans to develop moun-tain ski resorts in the Perm region. The most expensive planned project is the construction of a mountain ski resort between Perm and Ekaterinburg. Around $850 million

is being invested into the project, which will include the construction of the ski resort and the development of the adjoining terri-tory: cottages, seven hotels, mini hotels, restaurants, a sports center with swim-ming pool and aqua park. The resort will be able to accommo-date 20,000 visitors at a time.

Amongst the de-velopment within the region, the project at Belaja Gora (the

White Mountain) is one of the most interesting, because of its location beside the famous Bel-agorsky monastery. This part of the re-gion sees the highest level of precipita-tion, and the longest ski season.

In order for this project, and other such ambitious development proj-ects to be realized, it is estimated that around $800 Mil-lion will need to be invested.

let’s go skiing!

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The retail sales area market is

one of the most dy-namically develop-ing segments of the real estate market in Perm. In recent years the demand for retail floor space has continued to grow even as ten-ants and buyers become more fas-tidious. Despite a significant upsurge in the construction and opening of new retail outlets in the city, demand in this dynamic market remains high.

The development of business real es-tate sector is deter-mined by general economic situation in the region. With the retail trade turnover during the January-May time frame in Perm some 21.4% higher (to 81.13 billion rubles or $US 324.5 Mil-lion) than the com-parable period last year, it is clear the economic situation remains favorable for commercial expan-sion.

Today, the priority in retail sales market is given to shopping centers. This prior-ity demands special attention be given to them from the direction of tenant builders and design-ers in questions of architecture, outward attractiveness of the project and interior design.

Rental rates in shopping centers of Perm vary from $200 up to $1700 per sq. m. a year. The most expensive rent on offer in the city currently is in SC “Cemiya” and the “Iceberg”.

The constraints for developing ad-ditional retail space is first and foremost the the high cost of lots, especially cen-tral building sites. A

large scale project can minimize this impact and thus help guarantee profitabil-ity of the project on the whole. Currently, the largest shopping centers are: “Stolit-sa” – 30,000 sq. m., “Almaz” – 40,500 sq. m., “Cemiya” – 28,656 sq. m. However even the biggest Perm shop-ping centers can not be compared to the metropolitan centers such as “Gorbushkin dvor” with 51,000 sq. m. and “Metropolis” with a total area about 205,298 sq. m.

what’s new?As for the new

shopping centers, several projects have either just completed or are near comple-tions.

Recently, SRC “KUM” (a regional department store) opened in the center of Perm with a total area of 28,000 sq. m. On the outskirts of the city, the city’s biggest wholesale-retail trade project “METRO Cash and Carry” has been operating for just under a year. Next door to it, another international giant, “IKEA” will open a store in the new year.

An interesting idea based on the recon-struction of the rail-way station complex “Perm II” presuppos-es and expansion of its sales areas is still at the study stage, but the project, by all indications will be realized.

tendencies and forecasts

It is clear the available shopping centers of Perm are not capable of meet-ing the current de-mand of clients and tenants. The eco-nomic development of Perm Territory is,

therefore, considered an attractive one for Moscow and foreign investors. These investors are looking to open shopping centers in our region shopping centers totaling some 100 thousand sq. m. in the foreseeable fu-ture. With per capita income that exceeds the Russian average, there is evidence of the practicality of their investment into the commercial trading sphere. Until these new shopping centers are built the demand for the available ones will exceed the supply and the rent will remain high or even rise.

Moreover, the clos-ing of the sprawling “open” markets in the various micro districts of Perm per the plan that was approved by the re-gional Government, numerous venders and retailers will suddenly find them-selves in the real estate market further fueling this “hot” market as demand exceeds the supply by many times.

In conclusion, it should be noted that the commercial retail real estate segment will keep its high profitability invest-ment appeal. Ac-cording to thee met-ropolitan experts of the London Consult-ing and Management Company, the profit-ability of investment in a shopping center segment in the Ural region remains at a very healthy of 20% per annum, and the markets of the larg-est cities of the re-gion will not achieve a satiation of quality sales areas until the coming year at the earliest.

The data is given by Perm Real Estate Trading House

Perm shoppingthe current state and prospects for the commercial real estate market in Perm



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If someone told the Second World

War veteran lieuten-ant colonel Vas-ily Vladimirov that he would one day become an inventor, he would have never believed it.

He started invent-ing suddenly and unexpectedly, even for himself: First came tubeless elastic tires, then safety traffic control devices… and since then he could not stop. Today all his patents, designs, de-velopments and ideas are hard to enumer-ate. Vladimirov has cooperated with many organizations, scien-tific institutes, includ-ing Russian Cham-ber of Commerce and Industry in the

Internet site of which some of his inventions and developments are presented. This year he will turn 81 but he hasn’t ceased invent-ing. Included in this ever growing list of inspirations are:

Speaking on the process of invention, Vladimirov com-mented: “In order to

invent a truly useful thing one must be a very versatile and educated person. An inventor should be constantly hunting for something new. As for the tasks, they are de-termined by modern life. Poor condition of Russian roads that I am forced to use as a Russian citizen and the endless ordeals of our drivers inspired the invention of “Car devices for overcom-ing heavy-going roads and drifts” as well as new methods of tires’ studding as the cur-rently used method is unacceptable for the Russian roads. And then everything you see in the news: natural disasters, terrorist attacks, buildings standing in

ruins, impossibility to rescue people… This is how my rescuing system, simple and easy to employ in all these dangerous situations, appeared. I don’t know about the others, but I am never idle, I am always at work. Life is so unpre-dictable, so unsettled that one can always find an occasion to improve something and even to create something absolutely new to solve one of the problems around us”.

If you think that is enough for one man? Inventor Vasily Vladi-mirov is also working on social projects to help elderly people and homeless children and another project to reorganize the army.

the MAn WhO tAKes the leAD OVer tiMe

Painting without brushes and paint

Vladislav Polushkin is an artist who excels in the unique art form “mar-

quetry”. Marquetry is a mosaic technique, creating pictures using pieces of different kinds of wood. As the artist says himself “You see, it’s all very simple”.

In comparison with other kinds of paint-ing, marquetry works are imbued with the art and plastic qualities of the wood itself. Paints can be mixed, receiving various color shades. In marquetry, however, the image arises owing to use of a natural palette - col-ors, structures and power of various kinds of wood. In the skilful hands of an artist such as Vladislav Polushkin, these “paints” become wonderful creations.

Marquetry is an antique art. Historically this technique was used to decorate differ-ent pieces of furniture such as can be found today at museums all over the world. But Polushkin has ventured into new concepts for this old art form. He has begun a series of projects using marquetry to reproduce masterpieces of great artists, including masterpieces by Levitan, Velaskes, Savrasov, Polenov, Dore and others. His work includes beautiful landscapes and ancient temples which are revived in Poluchkin’s work, ap-pearing in new shades and textures.

Pictures created in marquetry posses a rare feature which never seems to get boring. The pictures easily attract one’s attention and seem to emit the invigorating energy of wood. It is as though a tree, even being cut down, continues to live, shar-ing it’s warm-heartedness with mankind. Wooden mosaic pictures keep this natural warmth and magnetism. The wood itself seems to enliven the picturesque marquetry art works. Moreover, when combined with Polushkin’s unique artistic skills, the pic-tures seems to be lit from inside. Moreover, the works are always exclusive as well as expressive and are exceedingly difficult, at best, to forge or reproduce.

Currently there is great interest in the works of Vladislav Polushkin, not only in Russia, but all over the world. His pictures have become treasured and are kept in private collections in such diverse cultures as Syria, Germany, USA, France, Portugal as well as his native Russia.

At the present time the artist lives and creates in Perm and has some 200 major pieces to his credit.

1. Multi-purpose all-metal elastic tubeless wheel This wheel was designed for heavy motor trucks as well as for heavy four runners, it improves traveling comfort and bearing capacity (up to 250 tons). It makes the tire’s

rubber resist big loads (which can reach hundreds of tons, for example in the case with lorries removing rocks from the quarry) Vladimirov additionally developed the technology of armor rubber production, which can be used in the manufacture of tires for this wheel.

2. Rough-terrain device for the car wheels These are removable track (studs) can be put on the wheels by the driver in order to overcome a long stretch of heavy-going road (snow, black frost, slush, sand, etc.), after-

wards they can be removed as easily as they were put on.

3. truck studs These studs are adjusted in the tire’s rubber; new construction presupposes usage of old tires which allows instead of labor-intensive process of the old tires deletion to use them a lot longer for both

passenger cars and lorries.

4. Railway wheel 2BC The wheel has inner shock absorbers and improved speed and safety characteristics which allow it to substantially improve ride control, speed and load capacity – in brief, everything that mod-

ern railway wheels lack. Moreover, the rails currently used in Russia are compatible with the shockproof railway wheels. These new railway wheels require a new braking system. As far as the weight of the car with new railway wheels is substantially heavier, the new breaking system should be applied. The proposed system allows reduc-ing the braking distance of the heavy stock from 1-2 kilometers to 300 meters. The wheel can be employed for currently operating goods trains.

5. safety car wheel This automobile wheel with protective rim and sectional type inner tube tire: construction of the wheel makes it nearly invulnerable to all kinds of damages, for instance, puncture of one (or several)

inner tubes of the wheel doesn’t prevent the car from moving further because all the others inner tubes are functioning properly and don’t let the wheel out. Protective rim employment in the wheel construction allows improving its safety characteristics and prevents tires from damage in the risky sections of the road.

6. Rough-terrain car wheel this wheel owing to its design can overcome pits up to 1 meter in depth, deep potholes, steep eminences up to 1.5 meters high, ascents (65-75 degree) and heavy-going roads (snow,

black frost, sand, marshes, slush, etc.)

7. Rope ladder for rescuing people from burning high-rise buildings that can be applied at the time of fire extinguishing or other disasters traditional rope-ladder served as a prototype of this invention.

Design of the new ladder gives more opportunities for rescuing people. Its safety and toughness characteristics allow to use it at the time of fire or other disasters, e.g. in the mountains, mines, buildings with damaged walls, floors or stairwells. It can also be used for parachutist and mountain-climber’s training or high-rise buildings con-struction and repairs. While many people currently become victims of natural disasters or terrorism, equipping every house, office, apartment or hotel room with the rope-ladder of such a unique construction will provide a practicable possibility for rescue at a minimum cost and high reliability. There is also a modified version of this ladder that provides for rescuing disabled and elderly people, infants and others who cannot walk unassisted.

8. armored system “PaNtsyR-BC”; body armor garment Vladimirov designed armored garment of all pos-sible bullet-resistance levels, on the whole 25 items were invented. There are monolithic (nonseparable) as

well as mountable-and-dismountable armored garments, the latter one can be as easily assembled and put on, as disassembled and put off. The inventor considered the questions of shock-absorption of armor materials and armor garment items in order to prevent injuries from bullet blows; in addition he developed effective methods of armored garments ventilation.

These projects aren’t fulfilled yet. All the inventions are registered.

Vasily Vladimirov

VLADISLAV POLUSHKIN IS A CREATOR OF NEW ART FORM, NAMED «PAINTING WITHOUT BRUSHES AND PAINT».



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The first day

Departure from the capital of Ural Ekaterinburg (maybe reached by rail from Perm the previous day)

Nevyansk – the capital of the Demidov dynasty, well-known Russian factory owners and pa-trons of art. It is a cosy and calm ancient city which celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2000. Because there are no high-rise buildings in the town, the town’s main point of interest, a legend-ary inclined tower, can be seen from far away. The tower was constructed in 1725 under the order of well-known Ural factory owner Akinfiy Demidov and was the symbol of power of his dy-nasty. The tower is 57.5 meters high, several meters higher than the Pisa tower which inspired it. Unlike Pisa, the Nevyansk tower built to be an inclined. Bricks were specially trimmed to create the effect.

Nizhny tagil Both its population and indus-

trial significance make Nizhny Tagil the second greatest city in the Urals (after Yekaterinburg). Located in the very heart of the city is an old metallurgical works of the famous manufac-turers Demidovs. At present it is abandoned but has been converted into a museum. On the clear day the whole city of Nizhny Tagil can be seen from

1818 a watchtower built on the top of - Lisya Mountain. Today it serves as the symbol of Nizh-ny Tagil while providing visitors with a vast panorama of the city.

Kachkanar and excursion to the Kachkanar ore mining and processing enterprise

The city of Kachkanar is situ-ated at the foot of the mountain of the same name. Today, the name is also associated with a highly successful company, proud of its excellent reputation and playing a key role in the economy of Russia.

The second day

the border between eu-rope and asia

The border between the two parts of the world is marked with a grand pillar monument. Here there is also an observation platform providing as splendid a view of the Ural Mountains as may be found anywhere.

ChusovojPerhaps the most popular

tourist destination in the region is the ethnographic complex “The Museum of History of the River Chusovoj”. A visit to this remarkable village, will help one to get acquainted with the cultural and historical heritage of Perm Krai. In this museum are

exhibits reproducing the Russia of old, presented in a realistic open air setting. A landlord rural bench, a theatre-museum of Russian wooden toys, children’s exhibition roundabouts, a well and even a authentic mill were transported here from different neighboards of Prikamye. Unlike the dry, academic experience of many museums, the Chusovoj fa-cility is “hands on”. Everything here can be picked up and ex-amined including “big-bellied” samovars containing two buck-ets of water, distaffs, kerosene lamps and many more articles from Old Russia.

The third day

solikamsk Solikamsk has the status of a

historical reserve. Daniel Defoe even wrote about this city in his book «Robinson in Siberia».

Solikamsk was the “salt capital” of the Russian empire. The town’s history originated in 1430. In the XVI century a salt deposit was found on the territory of Solikamsk. Because Solikamsk was only town where salt was actually extracted, it became a real “salt-cellar” for the empire.

Solikamsk surprises everyone who when seeing it for the first time. The breath of antiquity is clearly reflected in its rare monuments to Russian archi-tecture. To walk across Solika-msk in winter on a sunny day is really unforgettable. There are bleached roads, trees, white walls of temples, but all of this sparks and shines under the sun: snow, gold domes of churches — a fantastic empire which has stood as if in a magic dream.

Visiting of the working salt-mine of Open JSC “Salvinit”.

One of the mine lifts contain-ing up to 30 persons will take you and your guide on to one of the mine’s many levels. A spe-cial bus will then transport you into the labyrinth of the mine-shaft to where the salt extrac-tion is still carried out. In the past, the work was performed by

hand with manual boring-drilling machines. The machines were not only noisy but also very slow. The work was long and hard made worse as it was very harmful to the miners’ health. Now the work is performed by huge modern dredges which bore through rock with the help of 30 rotating gear disks. Si-multaneously, the alluvial ore, sated with salt, is transported on long transport belts. Although the modern ventilating system constantly lets in fresh air into tunnels, the atmosphere remains rather dusty. But as opposed to other types of mines, here the dusty air is actually good for your health, as it contains salts beneficial to your lungs. Some people visit the mines expressly to improve their health.

The fourth day

Cherdin, the most ancient city of Perm Krai, and Nyrob settle-ment

The fifth day

Usolye, an ancient residence of the richest Russian dynasty of Stroganov merchants.

Arrival in Perm and a farewell banquet

opening PermFor many years, the Perm area, home

to one of the largest “secret” military-industrial complexes on the country, was “closed» to foreigners. The name of the city was not to be found on any maps and even most Russians did not know that it existed. Today, the Perm region has opened its doors for both Russian and

foreign tourists alike. And there are many things worth seeing.

Perm Krai (or “state”) has a rich historical and cultural heritage. Traveling across the towns of the region will provide one with a unique view of Russian provincial culture. In these towns there is epic Russia, temples which have seen greatness, destruction and revival in their lifetime.

In other words, Perm Krai is a great place to visit! It holds interest for both those

who like historical and cultural tourism as well as those who cannot imagine their holidays without extreme sports. For this latter group, there are rapid rivers for rafting, alps for mountain-climbers, taiga paths and challenging bicycle routes. For “spelunkers”, there is unique cave diving and even salt-mines to be explored.

Let us the tourist Agency “Krasnov” show you a Perm Krai you never knew existed!

tour «the Big Ural ring»



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The first day

excursion around PermIn the very heart of Russia

one of the Urals greatest cities, the city of Perm, spanning both banks of the powerful Kama river. The city stretches out for over 70 kilometers along the Kama. Today Perm is a dynamic and rapidly evolving city; open to innovations but respectful of the past.

Belogorsky monasteryIn the middle of the Ural

woods and hills there is lonely White Mountain of 446 meters height. At the top of the mountain there is a grandiose cathedral with seven domes, which is the 7th biggest temple in Russia. The monastery can be seen from a distance of many kilometers and appears to be dramatically soaring in the sky above the surrounding countryside.

Belogorsky monastery was founded at the end of the XIX century, and the construction of the cathedral was finished in 1917 just as the October

revolution seized Russia. During the Soviet era, the cathedral was largely destroyed and stood deserted until the end of the 90s when restoration began.

Today the cathedral is almost totally restored. Near the cathedral there is the Imperial cross of 10 meters height high above the residential buildings around the foot of the mountain. The monastery will surprise your imagination. In clear weather, one can view a magnificent panorama from the monastery. Even the Kungur town and cloud smog of Perm can be seen. But even in a fog this place is no less impressive. With the mountain and surrounding countryside shrouded in fog, it is easy to imagine you are in heaven and floating above a sinful earth.

Kungur Kungur is a ancient merchant

city. Standing on the main trading routes, in the middle of the 18th century the city became the most important trading and craft centre in the region. Many of the constructions from that time survey to this day, including whole quarters of merchant private residences and numerous churches.

Kungur ice caveAn original pearl of nature,

the Kungur ice cave is the sixth longest plaster karst cave in the world with known caverns extending more than 5 kms into the earth.. The Kungur ice cave is known throughout Russia and unique for its easy access by tourists. During the 1.5 km excursion track, you will see magnificent ice crystals and huge stalagmites. The columns

and flowing amaze ice will surprise and delight you.

The second day

yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ranks the

third after Moscow and Saint Petersburg in importance in Russia due to the level of business activity. It is one the great business centers of Russian with world-wide economic importance but blessed as well with many historical sights.

The most famous Orthodox Church in Yekaterinburg is the Cathedral on the Blood build on the spot where the last Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family, were assassinated.

The third day

NevyanskNizhny tagil

The fourth day

Kachkanar excursion to the Kachkanar ore mining and processing enterprise

the border between europe and asiaascent to the mount of Kolpaki

The Kolpaki (or “Long Fingers”) Mountains rising 614

meters high are one of “the tourist Meccas” of the Western Urals. In the summer it is a cross point for hiking routes, in the winter skiers flock here, and all the year round the Kolpaki attract mountain-climbers seeking the challenging training rocks the area is famous for. Due to their natural beauty and importance, the Kolpaki have achieved the status of being a “historical natural complex”.

The fifth day

Chusovoj An excursion to the Political

Repression History Museum “Perm – 36”

The Political Repression History Museum and Memorial «Perm - 36» is a former labour camp for political prisoners. Of all the political labor camps during the Soviet era, “Perm – 36” was the most infamous because it boasted the highest security system. There were three guards assigned the camp for every prisoner. The prisoners of the “Perm – 36” labor camp were considered by the regime to be the most «dangerous» dissidents - authors

and advocates of anticommunist literature, participants of human rights movements, religious, patriotic and other organizations considered by the authorities as anti-soviet.

Returning to Perm

*An overnight rest in the hotels and a visit to a traditional Russian bath-house (banya) are optional but recommended.

tours “the small Ural ring”



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Cherdyn, the oldest Prykamye town,

is not just a place with huge number of historical and natural memorials, but also the home of a unique civilization. It is a place where, in many ways, time has stopped since the days of Old Russia.

Cherdyn on the right

bank of the Kolva river, like ancient Rome, is spread on seven hills. Here there is such a thick cultural and his-torical layer below your feet that simply stand-ing on the ground can carry you back in time to ancient Russia.

The first settlement at the site of Cherdyn dates back to the 7th Century A.D. The local pagan tribes here had commercial relation-ships with Persia, Byz-antium and Chorezm, long before Russians came to the Urals.

During period from XV to the XVII cen-turies Cherdyn was a administrative, military, craft, trade and reli-

gious center of Perm Velikaya (Perm the Great) or Perm Region today.

Visiting Cherdyn, it is better to start your sightseeing trip from the Troitskiy hill, for-mer site of the Cher-dyn wooden citadel, established in 1535. This fortress survived 11 sieges by Tatars and Voghuls and was never been given up.

Another great memo-rial is the John-the-Baptist monastery, the oldest monastery in the Urals, situated on, reasonably enough, Monastery hill. It was established in 1462, when the Perm Velika-ya (diocese) was chris-tened into the Russian Orthodox Church. The local permyaki (residents of the Perm Velikaya territory) weren’t really happy with the new religion. The people killed bishops, but even more startling, archeologists have found cemeteries of baptized babies, ap-parently slaughtered by their pagan parents.

The city centre of Cherdyn is full of mer-chants’ mansions, each and every one of which has its own legend. The streets are wide, clean and in the spring and summer covered in green leaves. There are almost no stores and kiosks and very little car flow. It is calm and cozy.

The highest structure in the city is the bell tower of the five-domed white Voskre-senskiy (Resurection) cathedral, built in 1754. During the Soviet era, the cathedral was reconstructed as the “palace of culture” which it remains to this day. The belfry of the bell tower was also reconstructed as an as-trological observatory, and the entrance portal shows the remains of the “Spas Vseder-zhtelya” (Savior of the Almighty) fresco, which was repeatedly white-washed. The Uspen-skaya church is now the museum of “faith” history, and has a great collection of icons and

church plates. Cherdyn land is full

of different treasures. The treasures were usually found by local farmers, who then sold them to merchants, officials or historians. Many Cherdyn mer-chants even gathered their own collections. For example, after a fire in the Alin mer-chant’s house, a melted clod of silver was found which weighed in at more than 100 kg. Many of Cherdyn’s treasures were shipped to St. Petersburg and are included in the world famous Hermit-age collection of Mid-dle-Eastern antiquities. But not all are gone as some merchants do-nated their collections to the local museum where they remain to this day.

Approximately 10 km from Cherdyn there is a large village named Pokcha. In the VX century, the village was one of the 4 pagan set-tlements in the region. If you plan to visit this town, go to the ruins

of the Blagoveshchen-skaya (Annunciation) church, established in 1785. It was destroyed, burned, and was even struck by lightning. Now the ruins astonish visitors with it’s unique wild and frightening beauty.

The village of Vilgort (“vilgort” means “new village”) is located some 22 km from Cherdyn and has over 200 homesteads. There is cemetery, covered with large firs, with an abandoned wooden chapel situated among grave crosses. And all around, the views remind one of pictures from a Russian fai-rytale.

Another fascinating destination located about 38 km from Cherdyn is Iskor, where an archeological dig of the Iskorskoe gorodishche (settle-ment) is being con-ducted.

Nyrob village, 44 km from Cherdyn, is the place, where Mikhail Nikitich Romanov, uncle of the first tsar of

the Romanov dynasty, was exiled in 1601. He was kept in an un-derground hole, and died after a year spent mostly in prayers. Nyrob peasants, who helped him during his imprisonment, were executed. But after the Romanovs took the crown, they endowed the city with their char-ity. A square has been reconstructed at the site of the underground cell and made into a memorial, devoted to 300th anniversary of the dynasty. The memorial was repaired for the 2001 jubilee. Tourists are allowed to walk down into the hole. And the “miracle” chains of the “Nyrob prisoner” are on view today in the Cherdyn museum.

Nyrob is a large vil-lage, because there is a cantonment adjoining the central area. Com-ing to Nyorb, do not be afraid of the long grey fence with barbed wire and watch towers. To this day, the city remains a city of exiles.

cherdyn, ancient capital of the Urals

Cherdyn city is the Perm district center. it is situated at the right bank of Kolva river, the right inflow of vishera River (Kama River basin). the dis-tance between Perm and Cherdyn is 300 km, and it takes 6 hours to get there by bus, perhaps 5 by car. it is one of the smallest (its population is 6.5 thousand people) and most hard-to-get-to cities in central and western Russia. the only industrial facility in the city is a bread-baking plant, but the main source of income for the residents is timber cutting. the prices are very low for all products and services and represent a bargain for the intrepid tourist.

Church of All Saints (1815-1817), southeast view

Church of St. John the Divine (1704-1718), interior, icon screen

Church of St. John the Divine (1704-1718), south view



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A trip to Usolje is not a “fun” outing. It is,

rather, a spiritual expe-rience or even in some ways a pilgrimage. And it is not only just because this city seems to come straight out of the Rus-sian Middle Ages of Rus-sia, although it does.

Usolje is located on the right bank of the Kama river, opposite the city of Berezniki; an indus-trial giant of the Perm region, with a population of some 200,000 people. Berezniki is the Russian capital of potash salt and titanium-magnesium concentrates. And so it is that the gothic cathedrals of Usolje are situated directly across from the huge chemical plants of Berezniki. The two banks of the river have stood in stark contrast to each other for many decades. It is a natural collapse of the centuries. And it here in Usolje that you may understand better than anywhere else how the 20th century has impacted Russia and its people.

Usolje was founded as a salt mine city in 1606 by a little known (at that time) merchant named Stroganov. For more than 4 centuries, the Stroganov dynasty played a defin-ing role in the fate of the city. Salt production was a profitable business. Usolje quickly turned into a big industrial settlement. An architectural ensemble of the city was created that rivaled even St. Peters-burg’s. Well developed and prosperous, the city entered the 20th century. But after the 1917 revo-lution and its resulting demolition of the nobility, the city began a precipi-tous fall into decay.

But the 20th century had another and far more serious trial in store for Usolje. It partially went under water because of the construction of the Perm hydro-electric power station foundation. Only the very old buildings of the city center located on top of a hill remained un-

flooded. But today, these buildings keep alive the memory of that golden century when Usolje was the salt capital of Russia and the rich capital of the Stroganov commercial empire capital.

The modern Usolje consists of two parts: the city itself, which repre-sents two parallel streets lined with wooden houses (wooden building in the city was exceptionally popular in the Urals and Siberia) and Stroganov’s complex which is located on the island by the right bank of the Kama river. Stroganov’s complex is, in itself, a small town that includes dozens of houses, palaces, churches of 18-19 centuries, the majority of which are now deserted. In the heart of the com-plex are buildings: Spaso-Preobrazenskiy cathedral, bell tower and Stroganov’s Chambers. They were all built in the early years of the 18th century and represent the best mas-terpieces of Stroganov’s architecture.

The Spaso-Preobrazhen-skiy cathedral is a beauti-ful piece of “Stroganov’s baroque”, there are only five churches built in this style (four are situated in Solvychegodsk, Ustjuzje, and two are in Nizhniy Novgorod). All six build-ings were erected ap-proximately at the same time to commemorate the Stroganov’s dynasty that had obtained the title of “baron”. Usolje’s church is more modest than the Rozdestvenskaja church in Nizhniy Novgorod but it has all the peculiarities of its style such as many col-ored cupolas, set at differ-ent sides of the world and ornamentation, made of figured bricks, that really impresses the imagination.

A fifty meters cathedral bell tower of the 18-th century predominates in the ensemble of Usolje. It is a Russian “tower of Pisa”. The bell tower remarkably leans to the south side. There is a popular explanation that it was partially ruined by

the waters of Kama reser-voir. But that’s not true. The bell tower leaned in the first part of the 19-th century. At that time, by its foundation from the river side stone-made trading rows were built for its strengthening.

The most incredible monument in Usolje may be Stroganov’s Cham-bers. They are incred-ibly ancient. Despite the fact that the Chambers were built simultaneously with the Cathedral and bell tower, they look far more ancient. Their main planning and decora-tive elements have a mark of the 17th century. Stroganov’s palace is one of the biggest chamber buildings in existence in modern Russia. In addi-tion to the two stone built stories currently there, the chambers originally had the third wooden story which is planned to be reconstructed.

All in all, forty -three cultural structures of civil and industrial architec-ture are identified and registered in old Usolje. Among the other build-ings of the city are two monuments that bare the stamp of a famous architect Veronihin, a native Usoljan, and the celebrated creator of the Kazanskiy cathedral. The private residences of the duke Galicinskiy and the Nikolaevskaja church are both brilliant pieces of classicism.

A tourist trip to the city of Usolje can be expand-ed to the first Stroganov’s capital – Pyskor village. Until the 18th century, a richest cloister was located here. Now only the church of Nikoly Na Gore (1695) remained. At present time, there are archeological excavations underway there.

Unfortunately, the unpalatable truth is that Usolje is slowly falling into decay. But it remains an ancient, beautiful place in Russia which should be visited while there still time to make a pilgrimage into the past.

Usolje - the city on the island

usolje is district center at the north of the Perm region the smallest city of its region (5,900 inhabitants as of-2006) and is situated on the right bank of the Kama River. for the last several decades it has been a distant district of chemical giant Berezniki, located on the opposite river bank. it is about 200 kilometers from Perm. usolje is basically an agricultural centre. the industry is represented by a single furniture factory and local inhabitants mainly work in Berezniki.

Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy cathedral

Old town

Tstroganov’s Chambers

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touRismPerm’s tower of Death:

history and legendsBy Hellen Makhles

There is no other building in Perm which is mentioned so frequently in

legends like the Department of Home Af-fairs, which is known amongst locals as “The Tower of Death”

It covers almost the entire block be-tween Komsomolskiy Avenue and Geroev Hasana Street. Its façade faces Komso-molskaja square, effectively closing off one of the most important axis’ of the city. The corner of the building is in the shape of a high three-tiered tower, the first two floors in the shape of a hexagon, topped by a tower, which is crowned by a cone-shaped roof and steeple. Its con-tours remind one of prominent buildings in Moscow. This is probably why people say it was originally designed to be the main building of the Perm State Univer-sity; something like the Perm’s response to the buildings of Moscow State Uni-versity. Nevertheless since the day of its construction (1952) it has been the loca-

tion of the Perm police headquar-ters.

It is said that during the times of terror (revo-lution and civil war) innocent people were exe-cuted at the site of the building, that the prison-

ers who were constructing the building were bricked up in the walls of the tower. Some say that convicts were thrown down from the tower to the inner yard, and it is even said that prisoners threw themselves off the tower as well. Others say that in the basements of the tower people were tortured, that there was an underground prison and underground passages that connected the Tower with other “hor-rifying” parts of the city, such as the old Yegoshihinskoje cemetery and prison. Even today people say that they have seen a ghost near the walls of the build-ing. For all these reasons the building got was given its gloomy title.

However, there may be a more simple explanation for the title. Whilst the tower was being constructed, a film “The Tower of Death” was shown at cinemas across the city. The tower was then the tallest and most noticeable building within the city. The question is, why was this name so firmly imprinted into the minds and language of local people? Traditionally, Russians have had a very negative at-titude towards the police service, which has always been viewed as a source of tyranny and violence. Also, the unique-ness of the new building in the city had a big impact on local people. At the time it was by far the tallest building in the city. Surrounded by a large vacant space, it rose over the city like a tower. Thus this unusual building became an unexpected emblem for the tragedy that took place in the then Soviet Union.

By Ludmila Pro-kopets

In Russia, cur-rently, there are

more than a hundred open air museums. The series of ar-ticles «Once at the Khokhlovka gates» will introduce you to one of the best; the architectural-ethno-graphical museum «Khokhlovka».

Ages ago, when many rivers were still nameless, several peo-ple gathered together. One thing united all of them; each of them perceived the world in a different way from their neighbors in each of their native villages. The people decided, therefore, to build their own village. They chose a site on the penin-sula in the very heart of the Ural Region. Because folk used to call people different from all the others «khokhlaty», the new villagers thought it only appropriate that they name their vil-lage «Khokhlovka».

On the September 19, 1980, the archi-tectural-ethnographi-cal museum (AEM) «Khokhlovka» was opened on a 40 ha site on this same peninsula. Workers at the newly established Perm museum of lo-cal lore, history and economy research workers collected wooden architecture

exhibits or memorials from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century on the area of some 40 ha.

For our ancestors, a house is the place where the family will live. Their houses were built to be cozy but also to provide security from a wild and potentially hostile environment. People put their whole soul into creating each new home and structure. As a result, each building gained its own soul as well. Every memorial in the museum has its own atmosphere inside, its own story. There is Pavel Kudymov’s izba that is warm and welcoming even at 30 degrees of frost while Igoshev’s izba appears gloomy and as if con-cealing some secret.

In almost all the villages, churches were constructed at the most prominent place. In the AEM «Khokhlovka» you can visit two church-es. Transfiguration church was built in 1702 and brought from the north of Perm region. Mother of God church, the oldest in the museum, was built in the south of the region in 1694 and today it stands on the highest place of the peninsula next to the belfry.

There are all in all more than 20 exhibits in «Khokhlovka». Be-

sides those mentioned above, there is the universal favorite - the windmill. There is also a hunting lodge and labazes (pantries for game) and a chain of salt plant produc-tion constructions on the Kama bank. Every memorial is a cause for fairy or scary tales, long talks and heated discussions about the history of not only architecture but of humanity in general.

According to another legend, the name of the village descended from a bird with pappus («khokholok» in Russian) that lived in the woods of the peninsula. The woods still remains on the peninsula and a great number of these birds still make their home

in them. In addition, of course, there is a host of squirrels, lizards and hares and other forest creatures. These creatures, at times, cross tourists’ paths unhurriedly, seemingly oblivious to and unafraid of the human interlopers into their home. Also to be found within the site of the museum, are some 200 species of plants including juniper trees.

From my point of view there’s some truth in the legend about «khokhlaty» people, the founders of Khokhlovka. To this day, the peninsu-la continues to attract extraordinary per-sonalities. The AEM is frequently host to film makers, artists’ «plein airs» as well as artistic and photo-graphic exhibitions. This unique glimpse into Perm’s history is a popular destination on holidays and sev-eral festivals are held here annually.

The museum is open for visitors all year round; its hours are 10 am till 6 pm everyday of the year. Located only 40 km and about an hour away from Perm, it can be reached by regular bus service or by private vehicle.

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Author’s column

talk at pleasure, eat without measure

RestauRaNt aNd café guide

At times cuisine tells more about the country than the lyrics of the national anthem. The shortest way to understanding another culture (as well as to the be-loved’s heart accord-ing to the old Russian proverb) lies through the stomach.

Real Russian cuisine is hard to find in the West. Numerous “Russian” restaurants in Western Europe and the United States offer dinners “à la russe”. Typically, however, this “Rus-sian” dinner will be seasoned highly sea-soned with gypsies, balalaika, vodka shots and pirozhok with, perhaps, pelmeni ap-

petizers being served. And all offered, of course, at unreason-ably high prices.

One should be aware that Russian cuisine is not based on the art of cook-ery in the traditional sense of this word; the preparation of the food is, rather, simple and conventional.

Most likely you’ll get a sense of good Russian cookery while paying a visit to a Russian house. Today one seldom tastes real “ancient” Rus-sian dishes. However, some of them have became so traditional that they still provide a basis for everyday plain fare and may even be included in a restaurant menu.

Russian cuisine is mainly renowned for abundance of appetiz-ers that forestall every feast. A wealth of food is a high priority with Russians: refreshments should overload the table to satisfy ev-erybody’s taste; lush variety of food strikes the eye. Cold meat and fish cuts, lav-ishly spiced pickles, all types of salads… There are traditional salads served at any restaurant and any

Russian household, for a example a salad with a fashionable in the past French name “Olivier” (in the West it is called “salade russe”). Every Rus-sian housewife has her own “special” recipe of “Olivier” that she’s proud of. Thanks to the unprecedented repertoire of foods and an seemingly endless list of soups, Russian cuisine is var-ied as it is flavorable.

A Russian daily meal is rich in starchy food, especially pastry and simple bread.

As you probably know, Russians are very fond of pelmeni which are similar in shape to Italian ravi-oli but very different in taste. Of course, “real” pelmeni is traditionally cooked in winter. The process of cooking involves the whole family, pelmeni are molded by the hundreds and frozen afterwards. Today home-cooked pelmeni has become something of a rarity, but the food industry compen-sates sufficiently for it: every grocery store of-fers dozens of varieties with meat, mushroom, chicken and other fillings.

Russians enjoy a substantial meal. Is it good or bad? Remem-ber that the human organism requires a lot of energy in frigid conditions. What might constitute over-eating in some tem-perate climates, may only be life sustaining during the infamous Russian winter.

On the whole com-paring Russian and French cuisine, it must be said the former is not so dainty, elegant and full of nuances and it is not reckoned to be among the fine arts as it is in France. It is, on the contrary, quite functional. First, it should satisfy one’s hunger and second serves as the backdrop for another, if no less important value to Russians, a rich and lively conversation. Ceremonious Euro-pean dinners where everybody’s attention is concentrated on the taste of food and drink such that there’s no room for talking left will seem boring and meaningless to a Russian.

Probably Russians prefer to develop their creative potential in other fields rather than cookery.

Nadezhda Proskurinapractising psychologis

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Drive Anything (else!)

Honda cars are beloved both by owners and the motoring press. This affection is not only in the West but also in Japan itself, known for it’s high tech market place. But for those who are familiar with the brand and it’s cars, none of this comes as a surprise.

Almost every component of Honda has a lifetime guaranty. They are typically made of high-quality alloys and seem to last forever. The Japanese home islands are constantly besieged by trade winds, monsoons and other salt heavy winds and anti-rust protection is a priority in the construction of Japanese cars. The Honda brand in particular, has built on this emphasis to become almost synonymous with reliability and durability. Honda cars are equipped with the most advanced technolo-gies and other electronic devices to ease the driver’s life. Moreover, their most popular models, the Honda Legend and the Honda Accord, have been continuously improved from generation to generation and their loyal customers see the newest models as approach-ing perfection.

Recently, a test drive of the new Honda Legend was organized in Perm by the city’s Honda Centre (24, Vosstanyay St.). This car has already become popular in Russia. Based on this test drive, we think Perm wouldn’t be an exception as the new Legend seems to have everything.

Without any exaggeration, we can say that the car is a true premium-brand. The elegant design of the car corresponds to its status, while dynamic lines define its sport character, subtlety hinting at the power of the engine. One of the characteristic features is a sloping bonnet. Straight lines, the shape of windows and the short boot highlight the wedge shape of the Legend when viewed from the side.

Performance is also excellent. The Legend’s the engine is rated at a powerful 295 HP with its maximum speed electronically capped at 250 km/h (155 mph). The car’s 0 to100km/h (62 mph) time of 7.3 seconds after start is cer-tainly respectable in this class.

The cabin of Legend combines refinement and comfort. Special attention is paid to the quality of the material with the principal: “Long live luxury!”

Almost unbelievably, the built-in cruise-con-trol system will decelerate the car and keep a safe distance up to a full stop if another vehicle appears in front of it. And there are numerous other technical miracles under the luxurious skin of Legend.

The latest version of the automakers most famous mark, the Honda Accord was also pre-sented by the Honda Centre with its Special Edition model.

Okay…. I have in articles past, provided profound advice to you foreigners on all manner of topics I believe would be helpful to you in your early or only days in Perm. It is advice that only someone as myself, with little Russian language skills at my disposal but having a number of years working and living here can do. In other words, how to survive and enjoy being in Perm. I am sure my past advice is still available… please email the editor.

But the Boss insists I must now provide a review of local restau-rants for your benefit. And the Boss, being a typical Boss, gave me a choice of review-ing any restaurant I wanted to as long as it was either the “Nairi”, (or «Наири», in Russian) or “Le Marche” , which is uhhhhh… “Le Marche” in Russian, I guess. Well I have been to “Le Marche” and was eager to go again but they were having a set price menu with an imported, visitng French Chef which the newspaper could neither afford nor seemed applicable to you reader types as it is now ended… so it will await another col-umn. So that leaves... the other one...

LocationLocation, location,

location as they say in the retail biz and this is pretty good. Niari is located at 67 Soviets-kaya, in the city cen-ter about 4-5 blocks

from both Kom-Pros and Lenin streets, if you now where those are. It has an attrac-tive well lit façade, with an elaborately carved, faux-ancient wooden door. Because it is in easy walking distance (or short taxi ride) of several large hotels in the Center City, The Foreigner gives it an 8 out 10 for location.

CuisineOkay nobody told

me before I went but this is an Armenian Restaurant and they feature Armenian cuisine. To be hon-est, I am not all that clear about Armenian cuisine but based on this experience is similar to Greek/Turkish(don’t tell them that!) and mid-dle eastern cuisines.

PriceMedium to high

prices... not uncom-mon for the restau-rants The Foreigner inhabits in Perm when not eating fried chick-en or sushi. It should fit your expense account... (tell them you were in Mos-cow, anyway). The wine choices seemed pricey but then I shy away from Armenian wines which may have been somewhat more affordable then the decent French Bor-deaux I selected at 1,500 rubles.

atmosphereNow this is an im-

portant thing…… par-ticularly if you are out to impress someone. Niari presents a well appointed interior... The maitre de was all decked out in a tux… the coat check tab was really cool; made of solid brass and weighing in at about a pound an a half.

The décor, tables, fixtures were all ele-gant Armenian, ...But, and this is a really big “but”, the place was lit up like Giant Stadium on Monday night.

I mean... really... There was no pretense to “romantic” here. The restaurant was mostly full on the Friday evening I was there, and the room noise was consider-able, at times even overpowering the very loud, live, Armenian background music. Our waiter placed a candle on the table but it was hard to detect any flame given the glare of the overhead lighting. Call me a sucker for romance, but... 4 (I loved the coat check tab!) out of the old 10. They really tried but… can some-one turn the lights and the noise down?

the serviceOur waiter did not

speak English but was an earnest, attentive and nattily attired young man with only a minimal grasp of how to serve the food. I was not given, for instance, an oppor-tunity to do my sniff and swirl act on the wine before it was served around. That is one of my best acts and I was very disap-pointed in not being able to perform it. But “attentive” is good. 6.

the Menu and food

The menu was only available in Russian. To make matters worse, being an “eth-nic” restaurant, the dishes were all named (I presume) with their Armenian dish names. Which is to say they were not to be found in my 6 inch thick English-Rus-sian Dictionary. The menu was large and offered a vast choice of delicacies, I guess. How the hell would I know?

I went for the lead appetizer because it had the Restaurant’s name on it and it featured 5 some-things which proved to be stuffed, pickled eggplants. 3 of the 5 eggplants things were

unusual and tasty, One was okay and the other... Well maybe if you are Armenian., I will save it for you next time. The serving was large and suitable for 2 which seemed to be theme for the rest of meal. I would conclude, therefore, Armenian food is served “family” style, like Chinese, for ex-ample.

For the main course, I ordered from the special seasonal menu which featured 8 items; 2 were beef and the other 6 were fish dishes, which is about as far as I got in figuring out what they were. I closed my eyes and picked one of the beef dishes. It turned out to be a broiled flank steak cut into 4 or 5 pieces. The flavor was quite good with a nice spice marinade even if the meat was somewhat overdone. It was served with a plum sauce that was not to my taste but enjoyed by others so who knows?

I eventually real-ized there was no garnish of any kind so I belatedly ordered rice which turned out to be the highlight of the meal as far as I was concerned. It was a mixture of wild rices and peppers and tossed with olive oil and was excellent. I liked the rice, so the Menu/Food eek’s out a 5. But if you want the Foreigner to eat here again you are just going to have to work on that English menu. Or provide a bi-lingual Armenian with each visit.

Location= 8,Cuisine=Armenian, Prices=Medium-High,Atmosphere=4,Service=6,Menu/Food=5

Overall: 6 stars out of 10

Next time... some-where else!

— The Foreigner.

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A foreigner speaks to foreigners

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manager «TONI&GUY» in Perm, Russia

let me introduce myself:I’m Marcelo Tholel, born in Suriname, grew

up in the Netherlands. I am the Educational Director of classic cuts, advanced cutting (master), seminars, workshops, academy teacher, product knowledge educator and manager for TONI&GUY Hairdressing for the last 8 years.

I’m still very enthusiastic to be working for TONI&GUY International Hairdressing. To me, it is the best hairdressing company in the world; because of its continuous educational program… you never stop learning!

The Artistic Team of TONI&GUY each year produces 2 design collections Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer for the inspiration and motiva-tion of our clients and which reflects today’s fashion.

When my wife, Marpessa, and I came for the first time to Russia in September 2007 for a business meeting we had no clue what to expect.

To our surprise we found Perm, Russia quite a nice city which has to us a touch from Italy, Germany and certain parts even remind us of Columbus, Ohio USA where we yearly visit our mother church, The Pool of Bethesda, The Church of The Living God International.

The hairdressing students I meet from Perm are very co-operative and eager to learn.

When I am teaching I can see desire in my stylists to become the best. Inspiration, motivation and education are one of the key elements for natural progression!

The English language is for most of the Rus-sians very difficult (“no speak but understand”)

The Russian language is very difficult but, with constant repetition and the help of my great and intelligent stylists, I have learned quite a few of Russian words and phrases in only a short time. Together, my stylists and I will soon open a TONI&GUY salon at Lunacharskogo 62b.To be honest, Perm re-ally feels like being home because those that I’ve met are nice and friendly to me and that causes me to feel comfortable here!

Even “strangers” come and shake my hand when I walk the streets of Perm.

The stylists and the people whom I’ve met are teaching me to develop a taste for the deli-cacies of the Russian cuisine. I’m fond of eat-ing and I must be very careful not gain weight”

There are great restaurants in Perm and one of my favorite is “Valida”.

The people from Perm are very stylish and fashionable and I would like to push them a little on the edge, to become more daring in hairdressing.

Most of the men have quite similar haircuts and I want to give them more stylish haircuts. I have been told that the style I see on the streets has been around for the last three years.

TONI&GUY will provide haircuts that will suit the individual along with strong tech-niques that reflects expressionism, character and flair.

It is very refreshing and motivating to be in a different country for the same company.

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exhibitionsGreat song of speechless space. temples and mountainsAn exhibition of works by the famous Perm artist Arthur Karapetyan.Date: 18.10.2007 - 11.11.2007 Central exhibition hallTime: 11 am – 6 pm, day off: MonAddress: Komsomolsky av., 10

the Perm territory master of pho-tography 2007Cultural-business centreDate: 02.11.2007 - 14.11.2007 Address: Kuibyshev st., 14, tel. 235-14-92

Le CabinetValery Bender’s personal exhibition.Soyuz-ArtDate: 25.10.2007 - 15.11.2007 Time: 11 am – 7 pm, Sat: 11 am – 6 pm, day off: Sun, MonAdmission free Address: Lunacharsky st., 32, tel. 212-89-56

olga subbotina and Michael Pavly-ukevich works exhibitionJoint exhibition of the works of Olga Subbotina and Michael Pavlyukevich.Artist’s houseDate: 29.10.2007 - 23.11.2007 Time: 11 am - 6-30 pm, Sat: 11 am – 4 pm, day off: SunAdmission free Address: Gorky st., 27

Reality squaredExhibition of two young Perm artists Anton Koshcheev and Alexander Grekov within the framework of the “New Names” project. Central exhibition hallDate: 06.11.2007 - 24.11.2007 Time: 11 am – 6 pm, day off: MonAddress: Komsomolsky av., 10

Perm museum of local lore, history and economy Address: Komsomolsky av., 6Time: 10 am – 6 pm, day off: Fri

Plates and dishes generalFor the first time, an exposition of samovars is represented in in its entirety and diversity.Date: 07.05.2007 - 31.12.2007

Capitals of Perm the Great Date: 25.12.2006 - 30.12.2007

exhibition Centre Perm fairAddress: Gagarin blvd., 65, tel. 262-58-58

oil. Gas. Chemistry 20079th international exhibition of oil, gas and chemical industry technologies and equipment. Date: 20.11.2007 - 23.11.2007

Jewellery fashion 20072nd international exhibition of jew-elry and modern jewellery industry technologies.Date: 06.12.2007 - 09.12.2007

Club eventsdJ Lutique [kiev.ua]Night club «Mama» Date: 10.11.2007 beginning: 11 pmAddress: Kuibyshev st., 66, EC «Triada», tel. 277 21 13

Perm electronic projects concert All the funds got from the event will be transferred on the account of Heart Institute children’s department. Date: 16.11.2007 Cafe MENU Address: Komsomolsky av., 34, tel. 219-64-35

ConcertsCuLtuRaL-BusiNess CeN-tReAddress: Kuibyshev st., 14, tel. 235-14-92

a. saulskaya (mezzo-soprano) Mos-cow theatre New opera soloistDate: 10.11.2007 Time: 7 pmaRK suPeRfuNK collective«American Black Super funk jazz band»Cultural-business centreDate: 12.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

oRGaN CoNCeRt haLLAddress: Lenin st., 51b, tel. (342) 231-51-00

violin music soireePerformer: International competi-tions laureate Elena KORZHENEVICH (Moscow) Piano part: International competi-tion laureate Julia Rogachevskaya (Moscow) Program includes: E. Shosson, M. Ravel, A. Glazunov, S. Prokophyev, A. SchnittkeDate: 09.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

salon romance“Romance trembling sounds”. First concert Alexandra Saulskaya (mezzo-soprano, Moscow), Anatoly TITOV (guitar, Moscow) Program includes: A. Varlamov, Y. Feld-man, S. Pocrass, G. Sviridov romances Date: 10.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

Perm music loverOpening of the III city chamber classi-cal music festivalConcert of the I and II “Perm music lover” festivals laureates Date: 12.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

Piano music soiree“Grand piano wonderful sounds”». First concert Performer: Alessio Bax (USA) Program includes: J. Brahms, S. Rah-maninov, M. RavelDate: 17.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

orchestra of Russian folk instru-ments Perm philharmonic orchestra of Rus-sian Folk Instruments “Classic-duet” consisting of: Tatyana Nenasheva (domra), Larisa Koksharova (piano) Program includes: R. Shchedrin, D. Shostakovich, S. Gubaidulina, N. BudashkinDate: 21.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

Guitar music soiree“My island is Guitar”. First concert Performer: Dmitry TATARKIN (Moscow) Program for guitar solo: S. Rudnev, N. Koshkin, A. Piazzolla, F. SorDate: 23.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

organ music concertPerformer: Ishtvan MATYASH (Hun-gary) Program includes: S. Karg-Elert, L. Marchan, S. M. Vidor, M. TariverdievDate: 24.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

Jazz and classical music“Jazz soiree with Valery Grohovsky”. First concert Performer: Valery GROHOVSKY (piano, USA) Program includes: Chopin, jazz impro-visations in various styles from Scott Joplin to Chick CorrinDate: 28.11.2007 Time: 7 pm

the Perm tchai-kovsky opera and Ballet theatre Address: Komunisticheskaya st., 25а, tel. 212 5416

Premiere of C. Monteverdi opera “orfeo”Date: 15.11.2007

16.11.2007Time: 7 pm

“Nutcracker” ballet to tchaikovsky music Date: 18.11.2007Time: 12 pm

G. Rossini opera “the barber of seville”Date: 18.11.2007Time: 7 pm

R. Leoncavallo opera “Pagliacci”Date: 20.11.2007Time: 7 pm

“Giselle” ballet to a. adan musicDate: 21.11.2007Time: 7 pm

a. Borodin opera “Prince igor”Date: 22.11.2007Time: 6 pm

Premiere “Romeo and Juliet” ballet to s. Prokophyev music Date: 25.11.2007 28.11.2007Time: 7 pm

Premiere J. Massne opera “Cleopa-tra (Life of an actress)”Date: 29.11.2007Time: 7 pm

“anyuta” ballet to v. Gavrilin musicDate: 30.11.2007Time: 7 pm

Perm state CircusAddress: Uralskaya st., 112, tel. 260-48-87, 8-809-300-6670 Perm circus continues the thirty eighth season with the new program “Our good circus” with the famous bear trainers Nelly and Renata Kase-eva.Date: 10.11.2007 - 11.11.2007 17.11.2007 - 18.11.2007 24.11.2007 - 25.11.2007 Time: 12 pm, 4 pm

sportCup «sozvezdiye (constellation) -2007» 11th international sport dance tour-nament Riding-hall “Spartak”Date: 10.11.2007 - 11.11.2007 Time: 10 am, 2 pm, 6 pmAddress: Lokomotivnaya st., 1, tel. 219-23-80

BasKetBaLLural-Great (Perm) - yenisei (Kras-noyarsk)super league АUSP MolotDate: 13.11.2007 Time: 7-30 pmAddress: Levedev st., 13, tel. 265-70-10, 265-77-06

ural-Great-2 (Perm) - uNiKs-2 (Kazan)Super league АUSP Molot Date: 24.11.2007 Time: 7-30 pmAddress: Levedev st., 13, tel. 265-70-10, 265-77-06

ural-Great (Perm)fiBa europe Cup USP Molot Date: 27.11.2007 Time: 7-30 pmAddress: Levedev st., 13, tel. 265-70-10,

hoCKeyMolot-Prikamie (Perm) - Gazovik (tyumen)USP Molot Date: 14.11.2007 15.11.2007Time: 5 pmAddress: Levedev st., 40

Molot-Prikamye (Perm) - zauralye (Kurgan)USP Molot Date: 18.11.2007 19.11.2007 Time: 5 pmAddress: Levedev st., 40

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