City of Perm transforms from a Cold War graveyard to an avant-garde mecca. October 26, 2009 — -- The sky hangs oppressively over the city like an enormous, rain-soaked towel. It is hard not to ...
While teaching students about the architecture of his native Perm, Roman Yushkov has seen many of the Russian city’s finest buildings become history. He laments their passing, criticises the officials ...
According to local legend, the residents of Perm, Russia have salty ears. As an industrial capital near some of Russia’s largest metal and salt mines, workers are said to have once lugged so many ...
Long known as an industrial center, Perm is trying to reinvent itself as a cultural capital. Will the plan work? The city of Perm, located in the Urals foothills, is, geographically speaking, the most ...
In the Soviet era, Perm was a closed city, lost in the gulag archipelago. For years, the city was called Molotov, after Stalin's foreign minister. In the Perm region, thousands of prisoners worked and ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Raising the profile of a Russian province is not easy – there are 83 of them – and most have little to offer ...
The era feels impossible now, in a Russia that's increasingly closed, controlled and paranoid: Crowds dancing as buskers played world beats in a muddy field outside the governor's office. A government ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mayor Greg Fischer reversed course Friday, announcing he is ending Louisville's "sister city" ties with Perm, Russia, over the war with Ukraine. “It is completely unacceptable that ...
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