Perm

Perm belongs to the Kama River country west of the Urals. The name refers both to a broad historical region and to a later city, which should not be treated as the same settlement across the whole period. Great Perm was centred farther north at Cherdyn, while the later city developed at Yagoshikha on the Kama.

Great Perm's Komi lands were drawn into the political orbit of Novgorod and Moscow, and salt production developed at Solikamsk in the fifteenth century. Much later, a copper-smelting works was founded at Yagoshikha in 1723; in 1781 the settlement became a city named Perm. Its navigable river and route across the Urals supported trade and manufacturing.