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My native place.

My native place is Perm. The word “Perm” came to Russian language from language of Vepses, one of the Finnish nationalities, which lived on nowadays Perm territory long ago. The first of Russian people, which stepped on Perm land were Novgorod merchants. Russian merchants toke fur from aborigines. But soon, Moscow konungs made there people set on Perm land. Perm started christened in 1455.

There are also many places of interest in my native city. The most famous place in Perm is Perm Art Gallery, which has world-known collection of the wooden sculpture. Also it has one of the largest in Russia collection of Orthodox Christian icons and works of art of Repin, Levitan, Savrasov, Serov. Also there is a exhibition of different things, that can say a lot of Perm history, Perm nowadays situation and nature of Permskiy Kray.

Every city has it’s famous people, and Perm is not exception. They are:

Sviyazev Ivan (1797-1875) – architect in 1922-1834. Founder of Ural Architecture School and author of fist architecture textbooks;

Mamin-Sibiryak Dmitriy (1852-1912) – famous Russian writer;

Bajov Pavel(1879-1950) – writer of famous Ural stories;

Dyagilev Sergey(1872-1929) – great Russian theatre figure, propagandist of Russian art at foreign and native lands;

Slavianov Nikolay – an inventor of electrical wedding;

Shvetzov Arkadiy (1892-1953) – great engineer and constructor .

Vereshyagin Peter(1834-1886) and Vereshyagin Vasiliy(1835-1909) – famous paint artists;

Nowadays Perm has million citizens. It is the center of heavy industry and has seven universities.