Perm' Travel Guide

 globetrott Says:  When I came to this church a church-service was going on and so I could just take a few photographs through the open door, so that nobody could feel disturbed. This church is without doubt the most beautiful that you will find in Perm, but most probably it normally closed... 

 globetrott Says:  This is the interior of the beautiful church close to the cruise-port. You will be able to enter it freely and without restrictions during the day. When we were there with the tourgroup, we had been told that photography is forbidden inside that church, but I had made my... 

 globetrott Says:  There is an old town-quarter in Perm, where at least 40 or 50 of old wooden houses were built close to each other like in a small village, and although people are living in these interesting houses nobody seems interested to maintain or restore them.We passed by these houses... 

 globetrott Says:  The Ballet-school of Perm seems to be quite popular all over Russia, because a VT-friend of mine had a strange reaction, when I told her that I will make a cruise from perm to Moscow : "I wonder what they will show you in Perm, except maybe the Ballet-school"In any case this... 

 nut_meg Says:  Well this could go under anywhere in Russia, I just did it in Perm' first and so felt it needed to go here. There is a billiards club just around the right hand corner to Hotal Ural (see Hotel Ural tip/info for location) and through an archway. It gets cheaper the later in... 

 globetrott Says:  I arrived by Sibirian Airways on a flight from Moscow to Perm and I had to set back the clock 2 hours upon arrival. The airport is not very big and also not really well organized. The luggage of all airplanes arrives in a tiny belt conveyer, there is just a small cafe in the... 

 globetrott Says:  This is the cruise-port of Perm, in the north of the city and at the same time opposite of the station of the Transsiberian Railway."Rich-noi Vauxhall" is the russian word for it and it might be good to remember it, when you intend to take a taxi from the airport or from the... 

 globetrott Says:  95% of the most interesting places that you will see on my Perm-page I did explore by walking after the guided bustour that was a part of our cruise-arrangements. That way I had an idea, where to go and what to look for and half a day should be enough for such a walk through... 

 globetrott Says:  Take a look at my photograph and you will see the cheap fuel-prices of Russia in May 2008 , These prices per litre are around 50% less than in Austria, where we had a price of 1,30 euro at that time and against the fuelprices in Germany, Italy or Netherlands you would even... 

 globetrott Says:  While in many other places of Russia the monuments for Papa Lenin had been taken away after the last revolution in 1989, here in Perm nobody forced him to retire and so you will see his monuments still :The one on my main photograph is close to the sculpture with the big... 

 globetrott Says:  It is a pity that this great restaurant / bar is out of function nowadays. Unfortunately it burned out but it certainly was great fun, while in operation: this former gliding-boat that was decorated in a funny way like a shark can be found directely at the place, where the... 

 globetrott Says:  The old building of the Transsiberian Railway is under restauration at the moment and next to it you will find an old steam-locomotive placed there as a monument. That might be interesting for train-amateurs and you will even find it very close to the ship-station. It might... 

 globetrott Says:  Vasilij Nikititsch was the founder of the city of Perm and you will see his monument next to this old part of Perm, where 40 or 50 wooden houses are still to be seen like they had been built 200 years ago or even more. Some of them are in a very bad condition but people are... 

 globetrott Says:  This is another great building that I passed by, while walking from the cruise-port to the city of Perm. Seems to be an adminstration-office or something similar, the building on my main photograph has 2 large lions standing at the entrance-gate. 

 globetrott Says:  What a lovely wooden building with an interesting architecture and great decorations, and what a pity that obviously everybody thinks that is is time to destroy such buildings instead of restoring them. They are also never mentioned on a guided tour by the local tourguides,...