Perm

Perm, a town of Russia, on the Kama, by which it is 685 miles NE. of Kazan. It is the chief seat of the extensive transit trade between European Russia and Siberia, and has a cathedral, tanneries, distilleries, flour-mills, and oil-works, and a government arsenal and cannon-foundry. Pop. 45,403. The government has an area of 128,211 sq. m. and a pop. (1897) of 3,003,208, and is exceptionally rich in minerals.