1. Russia Redux • Возвращающаяся Россия

Perm (11.2010)

Founded in 1723, Perm is a heavily industrialized region with more than 80 plants and factories. The easternmost city on the western continent, this city of almost 1,000,000 was closed to foreigners for decades due to it importance as an armaments manufacturing center. During WWII much of Soviet industry and many cultural artifacts were moved to Perm as the city, which lies 866 miles east of Moscow, was deemed far enough away from the Front. Many artists and men of letters, including the Kirov Ballet Troupe, were also evacuated to the region. Perm's darker past revolves around its notoriety as the home of Perm-36, one of the USSR's harshest & most infamous Gulags. Closed only in 1987, Perm-36 is the only gulag in Russia which remains standing. Today it serves as a memorial and education center.

Still a manufacturing powerhouse, today's Perm is imbued with a new vibrancy as it positions itself as a burgeoning avant-garde cultural center. Will Perm's cultural revolution turn it into the next Bilbao? Though difficult to predict, the city pulsates with a new energy that young people, in particular, find difficult to ignore. Whereas 60% of Perm's youth previously wanted to leave for the bright lights of Moscow, a common problem in Russia's regions, now only 8% think of leaving. In Russia's regions, that's enough to be called a revolution.
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Katya Goldobina, Marat Gelman's assistant, at the Graphic Arts Biennale. (Perm Museum of Contemporary Art)  На биеннале графики в Перми. Справа - Катя Голдобина, помощница Марата Гельмана.
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Katya Goldobina, Marat Gelman's assistant, at the Graphic Arts Biennale. (Perm Museum of Contemporary Art) На биеннале графики в Перми. Справа - Катя Голдобина, помощница Марата Гельмана.

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  • On the street in Kungur. (Northern Urals, Perm Region, Russia)<br />
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Купеческие домики на улицах Кунгура.
  • An unhappy kitty with her back against the wall.
  • View of Kungur, Russia.
  • Entrance to the Kungur Ice Caves.
  • Kungur girl with fur collar & beret.<br />
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Уралочка.
  • Kungur Caves map. The Kungur Ice Cave is one of the biggest caves in the world.
  • Sparkling ice crystals. (Kungur Ice Cave, Russia)
  • The Kungur Ice Cave is believed to be 10-12,000 years old.
  • Though we were here a bit early in the season, there we still many beautiful ice formations.
  • Ice forming in the Kungur Caves. (Perm Region)
  • Speleologist Svetlana Kozlova.  Светлана Козлова, спелеолог, директор турагентства "Сталагмит" в Кунгуре.
  • The Kungur cave has about 20 grottos.
  • Kungur Cave tunnel.
  • View of the Kama River with Motovilikha armaments factory in the foreground. The factory is more than 270 years old.  (Perm, Northern Urals, Russia)
  • RT correspondent Peter Oliver interviewing economics professor Tatiana Mirolubova. Татьяна Миролюбова, экономист и Питер Оливер, корреспондент перед записью интервью.
  • Tatiana Mirolubova, economics professor at Perm State University. Татьяна Миролюбова, профессор экономики.
  • На другом берегу Камы. Church on the Kama River bank.
  • RT correspondent Peter Oliver. <br />
Питер, как он есть.
  • Katya Goldobina, Marat Gelman's assistant, at the Graphic Arts Biennale. (Perm Museum of Contemporary Art)  На биеннале графики в Перми. Справа - Катя Голдобина, помощница Марата Гельмана.
  • Young graphic arts enthusiast at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Graphics Biennale. Маленький еврейский мальчик Марк, который любит изобразительное искусство на биеннале графики в музее современного искусства в Перми.
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