Siberian Forests

Forests cover the upper Kama country, where the rivers of Great Perm flow south toward the Volga basin. Great Perm came under Moscow's authority in the late fifteenth century. Farther down the Kama, the Stroganovs developed salt production at Novoye Usolye, founded in 1606. By 1715 its many boiling works supplied a trade carried on river vessels built on the Yayva. The forests and rivers surrounding these salt settlements formed part of the upper Kama's historic landscape.