Perm', situated on the banks of the Kama River at the foot of the Ural Mountains, had been first mentioned as a village, Yegoshikha, in 1647, but the history of the modern city of Perm begins with the development of the Ural region by Peter of Russia.

Vasily Tatishchev, appointed by the Russian Tsar, as a chief manager of Ural factories, founds Perm on May 15, 1723, together with ...