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CULTUreiii iNtERNAtiONAL EtHNO-FutuRistic festival kaMwa–2008 9the perMsky krai MuseuM. great Maneuvres in the khokhlovsky hills 10teMples of perM krai. uspenskaya church 10legends of prikaMye. the Miracles of the great perM 10boris pasternak. to the nobel priZe awarding anniversary. lara’s address iN yuRiAtiN 11tHE PERM stAtE ARt gALLERy PREsENts the exhibition. the golden porcelain of russia. 18tH-20tH c. 11reciept froM chief-cook 11krai’s foruM «russian world» 12exhibition of photo chiroMancer 12opinion 12

«ПЕРМСКИЕ ДНИ» на русском языкеНЕДВИЖИМОСТЬ ЗА РУБЕЖОМ. ЗАЧЕМ НАМ НЕДВИЖИМОСТЬ ЗАМОРСКАЯ? 1ИНОСТРАННЫЕ ГОСТИ О ГОРОДЕ ПЕРМЬ 1БИЗНЕС-КАРТА 2ИНВЕСТИЦИОННЫЙ ЛИКБЕЗ. ИНВЕСТИЦИИ В ДУБАИ 3НЕДВИЖИМОСТЬ ЗА РУБЕЖОМ. МОЯ ГРЕЦИЯ 3ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ. ИННОВАЦИОННЫЕ ВОЗМОЖНОСТИВАшЕГО БИЗНЕСА. ГЕРМАНИЯ 3

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Lately the Perm region was visited by several businessmen from the famous “ FORBES” list

III International ethno-futuristic festival

KAMWA–2008

For the third time already the

Ethno-futuristic fes-tival KAMWA will take place at the Perm soil. By a de-cree of the governor the Kamwa festival was declared as one of the priority projects in the Perm region.

Delegations and troupes from Moscow, yekaterinburg, cheli-abinsk, komi repub-lic, udmurtia, Mordo-via, karelia, estonia, Finland, Hanty-Mansi district, chuvashia, tatarstan, Buriatia will participate in the kamwa festival.

this year kaMwa

will show its public some new direc-tions: ethnic fashion and ethno-theatre. the festival guests sergei starostin and inna Zhelannaya will perform at the festival closing.

Light show, orga-nized at the kama river bank, is going to

be a bright and color-ful action.

scientific sympo-sium “problems of archeological memo-rials conservation in historical landscape of prikamye”, with visit to ancient settlement aniushkar, will be held within the kaMwa festival.

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Пермские дни

July 2008

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“avangard” ................ 8,10“crane factory “Malmass”..................... 11“devyati element”........ 12“doctor Zhivago” ......... 15“galogen” ..................... 12“galopolimer” .............. 12“gornozavodsktsement” 12“inveslesprom” ............. 11“invest-prom” ............... 11“kamabank” ................. 12“kama-great” ............... 11“kama-kristall” ............ 11“kamkabel” .................. 12“karelia dsp” ............... 11“kipelovo” .................... 11“Malmass”..................... 11“Maris art” .................. 16“Medvejiegorski lph” . 11“Mineralnie udobrenia” .................... 12“Moscow jewellery factory” ........................ 11“Motovilikha” ............... 11“Motovilikhinskie zavodi” .......................... 11“novaya viatka” .......... 11“onejinski ldk” .......... 11“permautodor” ................ 5“permenergospetsremont” ......................... 12“permgrazhdanstroy ...... 6“plo onegales” ........... 11“proinvest kft” ........... 6“prospect” ..................... 11“retrospectiva” ............. 14“rosstat” ......................... 3“ruiz” ............................ 11“saturn-r-towers” ...... 8,10“segevzki cbk” ........... 11 “slZk” ......................... 11“suholozhsktsement” ... 12“uralalmaz” .................. 11“ustiales” ...................... 11“viatka-les-invest” concern ......................... 11“village estate” ......... 8,10“wonder hall”........... 8,10“Zavod polimerov” ....... 12Abramovich Roman ...... 12Belykh Nikita ................. 4Bogush Mikhail ............ 12cbk “kama” ................. 11Doroshkevich Maksim ......................... 12kashkin evgeniy .......... 14kostin ivan.................... 11kovalev evegnie ........... 11Lebedev Aleksander ....... 4Levaev Lev .................... 11Lobanov Dmitry ............ 14Malofeeva Ekaterina ...... 3Mann john .................... 12Mazepin Dmitry ............ 12Medvedev Dmitry ........... 2Mironov sergey .............. 2Morrell corey ............... 16Myazina Elena .............. 12Nabiullina Elvira ............ 3Packaging segeja ......... 11Pasternak Boris ............. 15Perm state university .. 12Riadkin Vitaliy................ 6schulz Ronald ................. 3sotnikov Maksim .......... 12soupeaux phillipe ........ 16the Perm state Art gallery .................... 15utkin yuri ................. 12, 4

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

thinks the existing financial system is ineffective and is suggesting making the ruble a reserve currency.

he expressed his opinion to journal-ists at the g8 summit in hokkaido, japan. Medvedev said that the world financial system was discussed at today’s meeting of world leaders and that it was declared at that session that the system today does not satisfy g8 and other world leaders.

“we discussed the possibility of bring-ing the goals and operating methods of existing financial institutions into cor-respondence with the realities of the day,” Medvedev explained. “the situation with

the rather weak dollar and strong, growing euro does not suit our partners. We must advance the idea that was

expressed of turning the rubles into one of the reserve cur-rencies.” vladimir Putin spoke about making the ruble a

reserve currency dur-ing his presidency. At present, in the opinion of speaker of the Russian Federa-tion council sergey

Mironov, the ruble is in the process of becoming a regional reserve currency in the cis.

During the meet-ings between leaders of the g8 countries, it was decided to es-tablish special funds for the solution of problems connected with the food crisis. Medvedev said that Russia proposed a summit of g8 ag-riculture ministers and hold a “grain summit,” where the “causes and effects of the growth of prices for grain and the sta-bilization of prices” on the food market could be discussed. the Russian presi-dent noted that the g8 leaders agreed to exert influence over the food crisis and to convert to biofuel of the second genera-tion.

Ruble SuggeSted AS ReSeRve CuRRenCy

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News iN Russia

From January to May 2008, Russia’s

foreign trade climbed 49.2 percent to $292.2 billion, the Federal Cus-toms Service reported. Trade with countries outside the CIS rose 50 percent to $248.5 billion, and trade with the CIS jumped 44.7 percent to $43.7 billion.

russia’s foreign trade

surplus reached $89.9bn in the first five months of 2008, an increase of 50.8 percent from the same period of last year. With countries outside the cis, the surplus stood at $75.1 billion (up from $51.5 billion in january-May 2007), while trade with the cis reached $14.8 billion ($8.2 billion last year).

exports totaled $191.1 billion, up 49.6 percent, including $161.8 billion in exports to non-cis countries (up 49.1 percent), and $23.3bn in

exports to the cis (up 52.5 percent). the value of exports rose due to an increase in the average price of export, especially in regard to the price of oil (up 70.7 percent for exports to countries outside the cis, and by 77.6 percent

for exports to the cis) and oil products (up 62.8 and 63.7 percent, respectively) and natural gas (up 41.9 and 29.4 percent).

imports climbed 48.5 percent to $101.1 bil-lion, including $86.7bn (up 51.9 percent)

from outside the cis and $14.4bn (up 31.1 percent) from the cis, largely thanks to increased equipment imports.

the European union accounted for 53.4 per-cent of russia’s foreign trade in january-May

2008 (51.9 percent in the same period of last year), while trade with the cis made up 14.9 percent (15.4 percent in 2007), the eurasian Economic coopera-tion – 8.4 percent (8.7 percent in 2007), and Asia Pacific Economic cooperation (APEc) ac-counted for 19.4 percent (18.2 percent in 2007).

russia’s major trade partners were germany ($28.9 billion, up 54 percent from 2007), the netherlands ($24.4 bil-lion, up 44.7 percent), china ($21.5 billion, up 59.5 percent), italy ($20.6 billion, up 62.7 percent), turkey ($13.7 billion, up 64.3 percent), poland ($11.8 billion, up 81.3 percent), japan ($10.9 billion, up 54.9 percent), finland ($9.5 billion, up 77.4 percent), the us ($9.5 billion, up 57 percent), and France ($8.9 billion, up 56 percent).

RuSSiAn tRAde SuRpluS up 50.8%

The BRIC summIT paRTICIpanTs: IndIan pRIme-mInIsTeR manmOhan sIngh, RussIan pResIdenT dmITRIy medvedev, ChInese pResIdenT hu JInTaO, and BRazIlIan pResIdenT luIs InaCIO lula da sIlva

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Appointment of a New Re-gional Director of Lufthansa in Russia and CIS Countries

deutsche lufthansa ag concern has introduced a new regional director of lufthansa in Russian fed-eration and CIs countries. Beginning from august 1st, 2008, this office will be occupied by 43 years old Ron-ald schulz.

mr. schulz began his work in Russia as early as in 1999 in capacity of lufthansa regional manager in the upper volga region. One year on his area of re-sponsibility was enlarged by siberia region and the Republic of Tatarstan. In november, 2002, Ronald schulz assumed the office of lufthansa regional di-rector in the upper volga region, perm region and siberia. In march 2003, he left Russia and up until his return in July 2006, in capacity of regional director in the north-West region, has occupied the office of luf-thansa general manager in Indonesia. In his last posi-tion of business development director of lufthansa in Russia, which he has been occupying since november 2007, mr. schultz has been in charge for air carriage market analysis, development and promotion of new models of sale and acquisition of new corporate cus-tomers in this region.

Commenting his appointment, Ronald schulz said: “CIs is one of three rapidly growing regions. In this context, just recently we have increased fre-quency of flights from the Russian capital to Berlin and hamburg, introduced a new flight kiev – frank-furt, and since July we will offer to passengers from Tbilisi an additional flight to munich. I am sure we will succeed in continuing active development and offer-ing to passengers yet more flights, more services and possibilities for comfort traveling from Russia on 208 routes to 81 countries, where lufthansa carries out its flights”.

Delicacies from the Middle Kingdom

In July and august, to coincide with the summer Olympics, lufthansa will be offering its first and Busi-ness Class passengers culinary creations from the host country China. for two months, star Chef Ray lim from Beijing will indulge passengers on long-haul flights from germany with his specialities. dishes on the first Class menu include grilled scallops in a caper and raisin sauce served with spinach and couscous or breast of turkey au jus stuffed with rocket, accompa-nied by stir-fried vegetables and jasmine rice. In Busi-ness Class, passengers will be offered a selection of mouth-watering dishes such as chicken breast with mange tout and long-grain rice or prawns on chilli sauce with bok choi and rice with scrambled egg.

Lufthansa Star Chef programme

since January 2000, lufthansa has taken its first and Business Class passengers to new culinary heights. Imaginative menus, created by top chefs from all over the world, make a lufthansa flight a truly heavenly experience. To date, such interna-tional celebrities as harald Wohlfahrt (Baiersbronn), dieter müller (Bergisch gladbach), frank zlomke (paarl, south africa), daniel Boulud (new york) and paul Bocuse (lyon) have been engaged as lufthansa “star Chefs”. In addition, since the beginning of 2005, internationally renowned chefs have created special menus on selected long-haul routes from germany to reflect the culinary tastes and traditions of the re-spective destination.

http://www.lufthansa.com

Russia’s statistics authority reg-

istered in June the inflation slowdown to 1 percent. The key reason is the decline in fruit and vegetable prices. Despite the general optimism of the CBR and economic analysts, the chance of meeting the annual target of 10.5-percnet inflation is slim – con-sumer prices surged 8.7 percent in the first half-year.

russia’s statistics authority, Rosstat, released yesterday the

official estimate of the january-june inflation. in line with expecta-tions, the prices surged 8.7 percent from early this year; the infla-tion was 1 percent in june, while april and May had the disap-pointing 1.4 percent each. what’s more, the june inflation equaled the pace recorded in june of 2007. then, the prices had grown 5.7 percent in the first half-year with the ac-celeration commencing exactly starting from that time.

the inflation slowed

down in the last week of june on decline in fruit and vegetable prices, while meat and poultry surged 1.9 per-cent and the prices for milk and dairy stood still.

Nonfood prices continue to acceler-ate, especially the prices for petrol. “the highest growth was recorded in petroleum prices - 4.5 percent (3.5 percent in May). diesel fuel went up 7.8 percent, a-76 (ai-80) petrol – 4.7 percent,” rosstat said. the petrol prices stepped up 16.1

percent from early this year.

Nevertheless, the optimistic Economic Development Ministry forecasts that the infla-tion will slow down to between 0.5 percent and 0.7 percent in july, and the economic ana-lysts give 0.6 percent to 0.8 percent. “we expect the inflation to slow down in the second half of 2008 on monetary factors – the slowdown of growth in money supply and food prices,” said ekaterina Malofeeva from Renais-sance capital.

inflAtion bACK to 2007

Russia is going to increase its

food supplies to both domestic and interna-tional markets, Rus-sian President Dmi-try Medvedev told reporters on Wednes-day following the G8 summit in Japan.

the summit dis-cussed a number of issues affecting a large range of people, including the state of the global economy, according to Medve-dev.

He stressed that the biggest concern was the rising price of food products, and called for compre-hensive measures to tackle the problem, including both imme-diate and long-term measures.

at Moscow’s initia-tive a meeting of g8 agriculture ministers and a “grain summit” had been approved by the summit members, Medvedev reported.

He also said that Russia would be prepared to increase its aid to African countries, with talks underway to write off about $500 million in debt owed by African nations to russia.

the Russian Presi-dent is pleased with the g8 summit results, describing the meet-ing’s agenda as “quite busy.” he thanked the japanese hosts for the excellent organi-zation of the sum-mit, noting that this, among other things, also contributed to its fruitfulness.

RuSSiA to Sell MoRe food

In the last year, the number of

those employed in the Russian economy increased by only 300,000 people, or 0.4 percent, accord-ing to data published by Rosstat yester-day. Economists are concerned that the country’s labor resources have been fully tapped and the extensive model of economic growth is exhausting itself. Investment and in-creased efficiency of labor are needed.

As of February 2008, 66.8 percent of the Russian popula-tion ages 15-72 was economically active, amounting to 74.8 million people. of those people, 69.5 million were em-ployed and 5.3 million recognized as unem-ployed. unemploy-ment fell 1.5 percent in the previous year. deutsche bank’s yaro-slav Lisovolik says that every 1-percent increase leads to an increase in the gDP of 1.3 percent.

Employment in pre-vious years rose much faster. between febru-ary 2004 and 2007, employment rose by

5.6 percent, or 3.7 million people. while previously people who had not been ex-pected to work before – young people, pen-sioners and women with children – were entering the economy, now only the impov-erished, handicapped and marginalized remain economically inactive, experts say. While other devel-oping country can depend on women to boost the ranks of the employed, in Russia, women are employed as often as in indus-trially developed countries.

RuSSiA HAS HigH eMployMent

mInIsTeR Of eCOnOmIC develOpmenT Of RussIa elvIRa naBIullIna

phOTO mIkhaIl Razuvaev

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peRM WoodS foR iRAnThe delegation of

Iran’s embassy visited Permsky Krai for the second time. The purpose of the visit is to discuss the matters of the coopera-tion with the region’s authorities.

At the very first meeting the iranian ambassador golamres Ansari stated that iran is interested in buy-ing Perm gas turbine installation and in investing in the hous-ing construction. the ambassador also noted that permsky krai poses certain interest for all territories of iran concerning the buy-ing of equipment and obtaining industrial technologies.

the head of the second delega-tion is seedvajiholla Musavimirkolahi, the

executive director of the iranian forestry organization.

During the visit several meeting were held concerning the matters of the forest resources utilization. the major issues were the increase of saw timber supplies to iran,

the rent of woodlots in permsky krai, estab-lishment of joint enter-prises and cooperative utilization of forest resources.

the iranian delegates met the deputy of the permsky krai govern-ment chairman yuri utkin, who said that

the main task for the permsky krai govern-ment concerning the matters of cooperation with foreign partners is establishment of joint enterprises using the foreign capitals.

the delegates have also met the repre-sentatives of several

companies engaged in forest industry. for more detailed study of the companies’ of-fers and production processes the delegates examined the facilities of “wat spirit” (timber processing complex in osentzy) and “platan” company.

During the visit the delegation was shown the structure of author-ity bodies, which are in charge for forest resources utilization, for external economic affairs, and for busi-ness development. the delegates were given detailed information about federal and re-gional legislation in the field of forest resources utilization, and details about the customs duties and tariffs, tax benefits, top priority projects in the forest industry, informa-

tion about free forest resources in Permsky krai. (the data about the enterprises of the forest industry and their prices will be provided by Ministry of nature resources via Ministry of trade and commerce. also the Ministry of nature resources expressed its willingness to introduce to iranian specialist to federal and regional legislation in the area of forest re-sources and other areas connected with timber export). iran also of-fered permsky krai to send a specialist to find out about local legislation. both parties are looking forward to establishment of busi-ness missions both in iran and permsky krai, given the relations be-tween them will create suitable opportunities.

Permsky Krai del-egation for the

first time took part in the XIX Harbin trade and economic fair held on July, 15h-19th 2008. The delegation consisted of the heads of 11 Perm companies, representatives of the Krai’s Ministry of Trade and Commerce and Perm Chamber of Trade and Industry.

the colourful infor-mation stand of Perm-sky krai was located in the centre of the exhi-bition complex. almost everyone out of the thousands of visitors stopped by to admire

the beauty and mag-nificence of ural rivers, orthodox churches, wooden sculptures and Perm ballet, represent-ed on the stand’s post-ers. the exhibition’s organization committee awarded to Permsky krai’s stand a special diploma “excellent design reward”.

Perm delegates pro-vided vast number of additional information materials at the stand: brochures, catalogues, cD and DVD presen-tations. every piece of information was in great demand among the chinese visitors. Perm delegates also held negotiations with potential business partners. as a result of these meeting major part of the delegation was invited to see the chinese enterprises to learn more about com-panies’ facilities and products.

the delegates attend-ed the reception orga-nized by the chamber of trade and indus-try of Heilungkiang province and business meetings appointed by the Russian-chinese publishing house “yel-low pages”.

As a consequence, Perm delegation due to its performance at the fair established several

important contacts, which will undergo further development. the most promising contacts made include supplies of saw timber in china, and establish-ment of joint produc-tion of saw timber using chinese facili-ties), import of chinese equipment for con-struction materials pro-duction, road-building machinery, metallurgy products, seamless pipes in particular.

the officials of Heilungkiang province

invited Perm delega-tion to make another visit in 2009 and to take part in anniver-sary xx harbin fair. china also expressed a particular wish to send the representatives of business sphere of Heilungkiang prov-ince to permsky krai. Both parties marked the importance of such contacts for establish-ment of information platform and search for new partners to boost the development of joint businesses.

peRM buSineSS in HARbinALExANDER LEBEDEV: 3 BuSINESS AREAS

russian businessman alexander lebedev, one of the forbes top 100 celebrity, has visited perm city. his visit was encouraged by the leader of the federal political council of the “union of the right forces”, the deputy of the krai’s legislative assembly, nikita belykh.

Mr. belykh and Mr. Lebedev visited the museum for history of political repression “perm-36”, where the businessman promised museum’s director to give out grants for de-velopment of museum’s scientific projects and museum’s popularization among the youth.

upon returning in perm, alexander leb-edev met the governor Oleg chirkunov to discuss the possibili-ties of establishment of direct airline route between Perm and dusseldorf. lebedev’s airline company, “blue wings”, might be servic-ing these flights. it is also mentioned that his second company, airline discounter Red Wings, is to start the flights from Perm to other cities of the russian federation.

After discussing the transport topics, Lebedev also examined the out-

looks of module producing for the low-rise build-ings. the national housing construction corpora-tion of Mr. lebedev owns eight companies of this sort in russia. to get more in-depth knowledge of the perm housing market, alexander lebedev following the advice of Nikita Belykh met with local developers.

In 2006 the total assets of “national Reserve Corpora-tion”, belonging to alexander lebedev, exceeded 2 billion dollars. “national Reserve Bank”, the corporation’s ma-jor assets, owns the second largest holding of shares of “aeroflot” airline Company (around 30%) and “Ilyushin finance Co” leasing company (44%) after the state. apart from the bank the “national Reserve Corporation” includes “national meat Company”, “national mortgage Compa-ny”, “nRB finance” company, and a number of construction companies. In 2008 lebedev was ranked 39th in the forbes Top 100. his fortune was esti-mated to 3,1 billion dollars.

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NORHTERN TRANSPORT PASSAGEthe Federal road agency (Rosautodor) will al-

locate €18.8 millions for construction of kudymkar – syktyvkar highway. the first part, equal €10.7 millions, will be transferred to the region in 2008, and the last €8 millions in 2009. the means are to be spent for construction of the following sec-tions: danilovo – parnaeg, first part of serebrianka – ust-chernaya highway and bridge across kama in guyinskiy district.

the kudymkar – syktyvkar highway to bor-der of the komi republic is constructed within the borders of “interregional connections” project. this road is part of the northern transport passage (st. petersburg – kotlas – syktyvkar – perm). the highway will provide the shortest way to st. peters-burg, ural and siberia.

the total value of the project is estimated as €53.9 millions. the major part (90%) of the highway construction is financed by the federal budget.

TRANSPORT BYPASSAt an open auction the region Road agency has

recently determined a contractor for construction of the second part of the Polazna bypass at the Perm – berezniki highway. the project is to be realized by jsc “permautodor”, with offered price €29.5 millions.

in the july the contractor has started spadework at the object. the polazna bypass is to be construct-ed in 4-lane version with traffic line. the bypass length will be 6.45 km and the carriageway width will be 15 meters. the bypass two-level interchang-es construction is provided.

this year the regional budget has allocated €8.3 millions for construction of the object. the means are to be spent for excavation works and two-level interchange construction. the complete object is considered to be put in operation in 2010. its total cost is estimated as €29.6.

WHAt iS tHe peRM Region?a region of the Russian feder-ation. It’s situated at the joint of eastern outskirts of east european plain and western flanks of ural mountains. formed after integration of the perm oblast and komi-permyak Okrug on december, 1st 2005. administrative town — permarea — 160 600 sq. m. population — 2 730 892 peoplefederal district — volga re-gioneconomic district — uralsTime zone msk+2 (uTC+5; uTC+6 in summer)

RiversRivers of the perm region are related to kama river basin, the major left tributary of vol-ga river. There are more than 29 thousand rivers in the re-gion, and their total length is more than 90 thousand kilo-meters. kama river (1805 km) and its left tributary Chuso-vaya river (592 km) are the only two rivers, accounted as big rivers (e.g. longer than 500 km).

MineralsThe perm region is rich with various minerals. Oil, gas, coal, mineral salts, gold, dia-monds, chromites and brown

hematite, peat, limestone, precious, semi-precious and cap stones, building materi-als are mined in the region.

FloraThe dominant vegetation in the perm region is conifer-ous forest. They cover 71% of the region territory. The prevalent breeds of trees are spruce and silver fir. Quantity of deciduous trees increases to the south.

FaunaThere are 62 species of mam-mals (more than 30 of them are marketable ones), more than 270 birds species, 39 fish

species, 6 vermigrade spe-cies and 9 amphibian species. predator animals are repre-sented with common marten and wolves, widely spread all over the region territory. also there are ermine and weasel; there are badger and otter in the southern regions and wolverine – in the northern regions. There are bears and lynxes in small number. The most diffuse cloven-hoofed mammal in the region is moose deer. Currently the region is conducting works at acclimatization and breed-ing fur-bearing animals such as beaver, raccoon dog, musk beaver, arctic fox, burrow.

No less than 60-70 km of roads are to

be constructed or re-constructed in the Perm region annually during the next few years. According to a plan for the road construction sector it is considered to put in operation 964 km of trunks, which cost is estimated at approximately €1.9 billions.

there are several key mainroads in the Perm region, which are to be put in operation this year, including Perm-krasnokamsk highway, the second part of krasavinskiy bridge, the perm southern bypass. Moreover, this autumn commissioning of the krasnokamsk bypass section (part of a federal highway). hereby, this year the major Perm by-pass will be completed, and the whole transit traffic can follow to the North and the East of prikamye by the krasav-

inskiy bridge. the new bypass highway will significantly improve transport accessibility of the region center and

give new facilities to people of settlements, situated in 50-kilometre distance from perm. ap-proximately €323.8 mil-

lions in sum were spent for the realization of this complex and large-scale project.

Another important road building in Perm is construction of stakha-novskaya – iva main-road with a separate lane for the city public transport. the total cost of the project will be more than €350.8 millions. this highway is to provide transport accessibility to “iva-1”, a new residential commu-nity, which will soon be started to be built. the project is considered to be absolutely completed by 2010.

the 70 km of roads, planned to be built in perm in 2008, include 30 km of roads in komi-permyak disctrict. sec-tion of such highways as berezniki – kudymkar and kosa – solikamsk are to be put in op-eration. the new roads should promote the district active develop-ment.

long-teRM RoAdS ConStRuCtion plAnS

In comparison with the neighboring regions the perm region is one of the leaders by the road service budget. prikamye is the leader in investments volumes, directed to roads construction and reconstruction among Cheliansk (€67.4 millions), samara (€70.1 millions), nizniy novgorod (€107.9 millions), kirov (€24.2 millions) and Bazhkortostan Republic (€86.3 millions).

This year prikamye increased financing of major and running repair of the existing road network. In the last there were 50 km of roads repaired, what cost €21.5 millions, but for the 2008 it is planned to repair 166 km, for total sum of 50.7 millions.

Realization of the regional project “municipal roads” is being continued in 2008. The regional Road agency plans to draw 600 million rubles, allocated for the project, total length of repaired roads will be make about 200 km. at the current day the agency has to examine 41 applications for allocation from the regional budget funds €14.5 millions for reconstruction of suburban roads.

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A gRAndioSe buSineSS-pARK iS being built in peRM

The “PermGrazhd-anStroy” company

has recently published its plans, regarding a building complex in the very downtown – a grandiose busi-ness-park, which area is considered to be 120 thousand sq. m. Approximately the project costs €190 millions. The commis-sioning is planned for 2012.

this project has al-ready acknowledged as the largest one in the Perm commercial realty market history.

“permgrazhdan-stroy” stated that they will follow clas-sic western model, fulfilling all the conditions: 3 to 5-star hotel of an interna-tional professional operator; “premium” clothing boutiques; banks and corporation offices; apartments; convenient parking. the business-park will be equipped with up-to-date security systems

“permgrazhdan-stroy” has already found western part-ners for realiza-tion of these great ideas. the company signed contract with the leading german architectural agency Braun schlockermann Dreesen Planungsge-sellschaft gmbH for development of an architectural concept, which should be ready in june. the work paper should be com-

pleted by the Decem-ber 2008.

general contractor of the project is stra-bag Ag, the largest European construction concern.

Besides that, back in april “permgrazh-danstroy” has signed an agreement with international broker agency and consultant jones lang lasalle about teamwork at the project.

One of the evident

advantages of the business-park is its situation. basically, situation is the first half of any construc-tion project success. One would be able to walk to any significant administrative build-ing from the business-park.

in the nearest future the company will be-gin to accept applica-tion from co-investors.

the major partici-pants of the construc-tion market under-stand that financing of such projects is the way not just to keep money from inflation, but as well a great chance to widen op-portunities of commu-nicative investments.

“permgrazhdan-stroy” already has good and original name for the future business-park, but the company’s manage-ment prefers to keep it secret.

gladdens than the currently the project represents as purely systemic.

building of tHe gReAteStCARdiologiCAl CentRe HAS begun

Building of a cra-niological centre

has begun in the Perm region. People from the Perm region and other regions could get highly qualified aid af-ter its opening (which is planned for 2012). The federal cardio-centre will be the first medical institution of the future great medi-cal park. In the future it is planned to build the regional perinatal center close to the cardio-caente.

Presently preliminary works are completed at the object: the terri-tory has been cleaned, fence has been mount-ed, the building axis layout has been done, all the piles have been rammed in. installa-tion of bearing plate is almost completed, an area storing for mod-ules, which the cardio-centre will be built of, is being prepared. the construction zero circle is to be done by

august, 15th. the Perm institute

of Heart will become the basic institution for manning of the federal cardio-vascular surgery centre. simultaneously additional staffing will be also held. the clos-est attention would be

given to graduates of the Perm medical acad-emy, whose training will include internship and clinical studies, and may take one or two years, as well as to the medical college students. besides that there is an agreement

about post-graduate training of doctors and education of some specialists, working at the institute of Heart, based at the scientific centre of cardio-vas-cular surgery, named after a.n. bakulev (Moscow).

according to the project, the Centre will have 167 beds, including 17 ones for children. Its capacity should be up to 5 thousand surgeries per year. The Centre will have its own clinic-diagnostic laboratory, consultative clinic, able to receive 100 patients per shift. examination, treatment and post-surgical supervision will be conducted at high level.

Cost of the cardio-centre construction is more than €80.95 millions.

Компания pROinvest kfT осуществляет полный цикл работ «от идеи до запуска» объектов социального на-значения. Приоритетным направлением компании является медицинское осна-щение, закупки и поставки медицинского диагностичес-кого оборудования, товаров медицинского назначения, а также проектирование уч-реждений здравоохранения.

governor Oleg Chirkunov: “The perm region has a fine school of a cardio-vascular surgery; it is the heart Institute. It has highly scilled cardio-surgeons”

THE FIRST GENERAL CONTRACTORS FROM EuROPE

in the june a competitive bidding for construction and equipment of surgical department of the Perm municipal child clinical hospital ¹15 was held.

two companies came to the finals: Active Medi-cal systems from Moscow and proinvest kft from hungray. for the first time the general contractor will be an european company. according to special-ists, the interest to the tenders is quite explicable, because the project cost is about €40.5 millions.

this money should be enough to build the municipal child clinical hospital with at least 250 beds for twenty-four-hour patients of emergency and routine surgery and at least 7 treatment sec-tions. thus, the project considers not just con-struction of the building and its equipment, but

actually the “turnkey” construction. not a single Perm company took part at the tenders due to impossibility of providing construction of the whole complex.

under the tenders conditions a contractor should start works in 5 days after the contract is singed. till now there is still no exact date of commission-ing, the construction time is one of the participants competitive advantages. the hungarian company stated commissioning at december 31st, 2014.

the winner gives no comments about participa-tion in the bidding, until official announcement of the results.

CLASSIFIEDSLAND PARCEL. 26 hectares. The parcel is located in 20 km from B. savino airport in forest park zone. for-merly a military camp, sold by auction. presently it is a private property. There are constructions and com-munications at the land. destination is residentinal or industrial areas. The parcel has no charges. The price is 26,500 mln rubles (716 000 euro).

Additional information about the objects may be obtained by special inquiry

to e-mail: [email protected], +7-922-24-000-70

Vitaliy Riadkin, the director of LLC “PermGrazhdanStroy”:

— «We do realize that such investments vol-ume presupposes contribution from top-level co-investors. It is not a secret that there are already a lot of interested in the project parties. What de-mands do we make? These are the wish and the ability, which would let an investor to go down in history of our region. Not every one could cope with this condition.

Thereby we have no fear that someone would intercept the project. This is the special status. One must be at the one level with the most outstanding members of our country’s “entrepreneurs order” to participate in such a project. I’m confident that at the moment not all the companies, even the big-gest ones, meet that requirement.

Jürg H. Lippuner, Zürich, Kingdom of Lesotho, Consulate General, Hon.Consul General:

— i would like to share impression of my visit to perm during period from 18.06 to 03.07, where i came by plane from frankfurt. at cus-toms, i had no problems, except the language ones. i don’t speak russian; i “only” know german (native language), english, french and spanish.

thank god in Perm, i was always with some-one, who spoke russian. else it is almost impos-sible to stay in Russia, because cyrillic is quite difficult for west european person.

i had difficulties in public transport (i didn’t know when my bus stop is), at restaurant i couldn’t explain my order or ask for a restroom, not to mention a receipt. still i’d like to note that the personnel, in spite of the language barrier, treated me with patience and respect. culmination of my trip was visit to the ballet, for the second time. i will never forget this evening.

also it’s pleasure to mention my interpreter, a Pstu student, which was recommended to my by tatiana aghapitova, the university teacher. the interpreter showed an excellent german language and made very interesting city tour.

the negative aspect, which i have to men-tion, is terrifying propensity of youth to alcohol. indeed, there is the same problem in switzerland as well, but not in such scale.

Being the President of charity Fund Rosa köstli (with residence Zürich), i had an oppor-tunity to visit one of the Perm hospitals, which needs seemed to me very obvious. i’m sure that the next session of the fund in perm will consider that issue and make everything possible to solve some problems.

as a whole, i’m satisfied with your city and friendly people. see you later.

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BusiNess“MOTOVILIKHA” AGREED ABOuT

THE SuPPLIES OF MuLTIPLE ROCKET LAuNCHER SYSTEMS IN

TuRKMENISTAN“Motovilikhinskie zavodi” has signed a con-

tract of delivery with turkmenistan for 6 sets of multiple rocket launcher systems “smerch”. this information was released after the annual stockholders’ meeting on the june 21st.

two sets of “smerch” will be shipped to the buyer this au-tumn, others – in the year 2009, said the direc-tor general of “Motovi-likha” ivan kostin. the amount of contract is kept in secret, but under the same contract with india, signed in 2005, the enterprise got 450 million dollars for the supplies of 30 systems.

the systems under the manufacturing con-tract with turkmenistan were put into produc-tion simultaneously with the last consignment for india. this consignment will be shipped in the 20th of july, and the selling of option will be started, again with india. the sum is esti-mated in 300 million dollars.

the chairman of board of directors of “Mo-tovilikha” evegnie kovalev stressed, that the holding is getting closer and closer to the for-mer export showings, and that the income from the armaments industry in the general amount of products will be increasing. as a result, armament industry in the holding company comes to the foreground.

the takings of the “Motovilikhinskie zavodi” increased by 161,5%, and reached the sum of 91,8 million euro, net profit increased in 16,5 times (up to 10 million euro) in the year 2007, comparing with the preceding year.

ligHt enAMel-pApeR iS put into pRoduCtion

“Pulp and paper mill “Kama” (a

part of a holding com-pany “Investlesprom”) will become one of the producers of light enamel-paper (LWC) in Russia.

“investlesprom” is go-ing to spend 60 million euro in the moderniza-tion of the production lines. as a result, cbk will produce about 80 tons of paper per year. At the moment the specified paper is not manufactured on the territory of our country.

the executive committee of the holding company “investlesprom” ap-proved the project of reconstruction of cbk “kama” (krasnokamsk). the project presup-poses the modernization of thermomechanical weight shop, production line of the papermaking machine modernization with the installation of a built-in membranous press for chalking and built-in calender. a new wood-preparatory shop

will be build, and new longitudinal slitting ma-chine and transfer-filling line will be installed. the total sum of invest-ments into realization of the project is estimated in 67 million euro. Renovated production lines will allow the cbk to produce 80 tons of light enamel-paper per year.

the press-service of cbk reported the basic design will be ready by the autumn of the year 2008, at the same time the construction of wood-preparatory

shop will be started. in November-December of 2009 the light enamel-paper manufacture is supposed to be started. project leader of “lwc-kama” – deputy direc-tor of “cbk kama” on logistics and supplies konstantin rauzer – has noted, that as a result of the project re-alization, modern, high-tech manufacturing of prepared raw material and finished commod-ity will be organized on the cbk, which will allow to produce the paper, highly competi-

tive with the western samples.

today the light enam-el-paper is imported by Russian companies basi-cally from Finland, also from germany, sweden, and france. annually, by estimations of mister Loginov, Russia buys paper on $300 million (200 thousand tons of a paper and 300 thousand tons of coated board). europe experiences overproduction of this type of paper now. he estimates the need of russian market in 400 thousand tons.

The holding company “In-veslesprom” was founded in the year 2006. It consolidates such companies as “segevzki CBk”, “segeja packaging”, CBk “kama”, “Onejinski ldk”, “karelia dsp”, concern “vi-atka-les-Invest”, kdp “novaya viatka”, OOO “medvejiegorski lph”, lpk “kipelovo”, “slzk”, “ustiales”, “plO Onegales”. “In-vestlesprom” rents more than 4, 5 million hectares of tim-berland in karelia Republic, vologodskaia, arhangelskaia and kirovskaia regions. lWC is frequently used in periodi-cals edition, brochures-, cata-logues- and bookmaking.

“MAlMASS” fACtoRy: fRoM City to villAge

The production area of “Malmass” fac-

tory moved to the vil-lage Polazna of Perm Krai. 300 working places will be created on the enterprise.

New factory occu-pied the manufactur-ing facilities of the former ferroconcrete items plant. since 2008 gantry cranes are planned to be put

into production list. the volume of the factory’s output shall increase in 2-3 times, the enterprise shall produce 250 cranes

a year. during the previous years the factory produced only 10 cranes per month, according to the Perm regional server.

the head of Dobry-anski municipal dis-trict Vladimir Varligin said, that the founda-tion of a new enter-prise on the territory of village Polazna will provide not only the money from the taxes, but also will affect the development of the village’s infrastructure and help to solve the problem of unemploy-ment.

“Crane factory “malmass” has been working in perm krai since 2006 and produces “low mass” cranes, mainly used in production departments and warehouses. Today the factory produces bridge cranes with carrying capacity up to 50 tons, conducts installation and commissioning works, provides service for the produced machinery.

big diAMond plAnLev Levaev (“Leviev

Group”), an Israel businessman visited Perm in June 2008. After the meeting with the governor he shared his plans concerned with the region.

A new jewellery factory will be built in perm krai, said Mr. levaev. the production capacity of the existing area will be extended to 300-400 working places, he specified.

Moscow jewellery Factory has two pro-duction areas: one in

Moscow, another – in perm krai. during the last years the factory experienced the boost of sales, which is the reason for capacity expansion. from all the variants the project in Perm was acknowl-edged as the optimal.

there are already two companies on the territory of Prikamie, extracting enterprise “uralalmaz” and lapidary “kama-kristall”. both belong to group “ruiz”, as well as Moscow jewel-lery Factory, controlled by lev levaev.

the businessman confirmed his inten-tion to participate in Euro towers proj-ect. for the project realization a special joint Russian-israel

enterprise – “kama-great” – was created. “prospect” is Mr. levaev’s partner in prikamie. Moreover, the businessman said his representatives

continue the work, aimed at creation of a recycling factory (a factory, which deals with extermination of wastes or creating other products from the garbage) in perm.

“invest-prom”, a company, which be-longs to the group of Mr. levaev, has won a municipal competi-tion for the right to sign the contract of tenancy, for rent-ing of the municipal property, intended for sanitary purification of the city. on the five

ground areas, bought on the auction, few enterprises will be cre-ated, to process 400 thousand tons of solid domestic wastes annu-ally. three areas are located in Perm, two – in perm region, including the main city ground for utiliza-tion of solid domestic wastes in sofroni. the term of lease is set to 15 years. under the investment treaty the company must invest 700 million rubles in recycling factories construction.

lev levaev is the one of the first-rate diamond sellers in the world. The total turnover of “leviev group” is about 3 milliard dollars; the turnover from the diamond industry takes one third of it.

The group includes the holding company “africa-Israel” (50, 6%), working with real estate, construction, telecommunications services, tourism and power engineering. The company owns a chain of hotels “holiday Inn”, and one of the companies of “africa-Israel” group – “goteks” is one of the first-rate beach wear manufacturers in the world. “leviev group” owns 40% of “namko”, an extracting company with shelf deposits in namibia and south african Republic, 18% – in diamond mine “katoka” in angola. In Russia the group owns two lapidary enterprises – “kama-kristall” in perm and “Ruiz-diamond” in moscow. last year levaev became an owner of a Russian Tv channel “Israel plus”.

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“gAlogen” joined neW CHeMiCAl Holding CoMpAny

Dmitry Mazepin has reorganized

the legal structure of the controlled com-panies; as a result “GaloPolimer” was greated.

the main products of the company are fluorocarbon polymer, hladon and inorganic chemistry goods (ac-ids, alkali, salt). “ga-lopolimer” includes 99,8% of “galogen”

(Perm) voting stock, 100% of “Zavod polimerov” (kirovo-chepetsk) authorized capital stock, 100% of “devyati element” (Perm) authorized capital stock and 100% of “transport-no-logisticheskaya kompania” (kirovo-chepetsk) authorized capital stock.

the director general of “galopolimer” is Maksim doroshkevich.

“MINERALNIE uDOBRENIA” DISTRIBuTING 16 MILLION PROFITS

“Mineralnie udobre-nia” has published the annual stockholders’ meeting results. the amount of profits to be distributed makes 50% of net profit. taking in consideration 9,7 million euro of interim divi-dends, paid for the first quarter and the first half of the year 2007, total sum of profits equals to 16,4 million euro, says

the official report of “Mineralnie udobrenia”. Without taking the payment of interim divi-

dends into account, the profits will make 6,68 mil-lion euro for the first quarter and the first half of the year 2007. the stockholders will get 4,13 euro for each nominal share they have.

“PERMENERGOSPETSREMONT” LEAVES THE PROFITS AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE SOCIETY

the stockholders of “permenergospetsre-mont” has approved the annual return and accounting for the year 2007. the 604 thousand euro profit will be left at the disposal of the society. the report of the company doesn’t elucidate the exact way

of profit distribution.A decision not to yield the dividends on or-

dinary and preference shares for the year 2007 was taken.

“KAMKABEL”: PROFITS DISTRIBuTION

the enterprise’s net profit for the year 2007 is 15,7 million euro; the in-crease is 5,51 million euro, in comparison with the year 2006. under the pro-posal of a committee of directors, the profits were distributed in such a way: 450 million rubles will be spend for the production lines modernization, 253 thousand euro will be put

into the surplus fund, 3,28 million euro will be spend to reward the committee of directors and members of auditing commission. the stockholders will get nothing.

“KAMABANK” INCREASES THE CREDIT PORTFOLIO

Balance sheet profit of “kamabank” increased in 2,2 times and made up 3, 038 million euro in the year 2007. the total assets

increased on 35,216 million euro and made up 162 million euro, the growth of the hypothecary credit portfolio for natural person estimates at 386,3% and makes up 80,96 million rubles, the growth of the credit portfolio for credit cards estimates at 214, 4% (227 thousand cards emitted). Moreover, 2,26 million of net profit is to be distributed among the stockholders. the shareholders approved the corpo-rative code of the bank, introduced some changes in the charter, particularly, the sum of authorized capital was specified. at the moment it equals to 26,92 million euro.

“meniralnie udobrenia” is the one of the first-rate nitrogen fertil-izer producers in ural and Western siberia. The main output of the enterprise – liquid synthetic ammo-nia and granular carbamide. Those chemical agents are highly effec-tive nitrogen fertilizers, and at the same time – raw material for various chemicals production, from nitric acid and household chemical goods to plastic and pharmaceutical prod-ucts. apart from those products, the factory produces carbonic acid, including eatable carbonic acid, and pure oxygen for the needs of medi-cal and health centers.

“permenergospetsremont ” implements complex construc-tion works, remedial maintenance, reconstruction and capital con-struction of special, industrial and housing projects of any standards. The enterprise has 16 workshops and production area all over perm krai, each workshop is technically equipped, has production capaci-ties and works under the supervi-sion of highly qualified personnel, under the direction of professional managers.

“kamabank” works since 1990. It is the regional universal bank of perm krai. “kamabank” is one of the first-rate banks in ural, according to it’s aggregate assets.

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Space monitoring system of agricultural grounds was

set into operation in Perm Krai (www.agromap.perm.ru/agro-map).

the website constitutes a space monitoring system of agricultural grounds, covering 30 regions of the krai. it has cartographic and attributive information about the agricultural enterprises and fields. the topographic, soil and agro-chemical maps of perm krai, data about the agricultural grounds and fields, crops and applied fer-tilizers, maps, characterizing the state and condition of the flora and surface are represented here.

Future investors, using the website data, can preliminary calculate the common production profitability; choose the ground which suits the aims of their busi-ness.

Anon the site will be supple-mented by surveys and progno-sis about the development and condition of the crop. in july the space photographs of single fields and grounds will be available.

the project “creation of a space monitoring system ground-ing on the data from the remote probing for rational use of the ag-ricultural holdings” was realized by gis (state Research center) of perm state university.

“Millhouse” com-pany, owned

by Roman Abramov-ich, got a license for field development of a concrete mine in Gornozavodski region of Perm Krai, said the local official.

Vice-chairman of the Prikamie government yuri utkin confirmed the information, but refused to give more detailed comments. john Mann, a represen-tative from “Millhouse” refused to comment on the subject matter too.

anon “Millhouse” is starting geological studying of bowels of the field. a contract will be signed for this purpose with FguP “permgeolnerud”, said the local official. unfortunately, we couldn’t contact the representatives from fgup. on the field “Millhouse” is going to construct a factory with the productive capacity of 2 million tons of concrete a year. new “dry” mode

of production will be used on the factory, which is more econom-ical in comparison with the traditional ones. the construction of the factory will be started in the next year, and by the 2010 it will be placed in operation. the sum of investment in the production is stated to 500 mil-lion dollars, assumed pay-back period of the factory is 5 years.

“experts say the Perm project is very logical. this year the

annual intake of con-crete in ural is going to surpass the installed ca-pacity”, – said Mikhail Bogush, the chief of building materials department in “inteko” company. he also noted the convenience of transportation of the product from perm krai to North-West regions and tatarstan, areas with the shortage of concrete.

Maksim sotnikov, chairman of board of directors of “suholozhs-ktsement”, is skeptical

about Roman Abramov-ich factory construction plans: “gornozavod-sktsement” (productive capacity – 2,2 million tons) fulfills the needs of perm krai. besides that, new capacities are awaiting to be put into operation: we are building a new factory with 1,3 million tons productive capacity, “nevjanski tsemzavod” is being modernized now”. he also men-tioned that concrete producers have already experienced the load reduction on 5-7%, in comparison with the last year.

“as the cement in-dustry grows the price of the concrete can go down”, – warned the analyst of “unicredit aton” elena Myazina. the prices for concrete grew up during the last years; the peak was in april 2008 (203 dollars for a ton at the Mos-cow stock exchange). Now the prices are fall-ing down” an average price in july makes 181 dollar for a ton.

AbRAMoviCH CoMeS to peRM KRAi

“kamkabel” is the first-rate producer of cable and conducting materials in Russia. The factory was founded in 1957 in perm. The enterprise ratio on the Russian conducting materials market in 2007 was 15,3% (metal processing judging by copper weight).

The production of “kamkabel” is widely used in different cities, in such spheres as power engineering, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, coal and mineral resource industry, construction, oil and gas industry, mechanical engineering, aircraft- and shipbuilding.

Maksim Doroshkevich, the director general of the JSC “HaloPolymer”:

— Merger of the LLC “Plant of Polymers KCHK” and the JSC “Halogen” into the single holding “HaloPolymer” will promote firm and dynamic development of both enterprises. Within the borders of the JSC “HaloPolymer” holding foundation, it is supposed to develop production of technological highly profitable articles, special polymers (high-tech fluorine-plastics and fluorine-rubbers). Special polymers are demanded as at the Russian market, as at the foreign ones, the annual market growth rate is approximately 7%. Implementation of new manufacture technologies will make the holding enterprises competitive and provide their form development. According to our long-term plans, by 2012 the JSC “HaloPolymer” should share 6% of the world’s market of high-tech fluorine-plastics and fluorine-rubbers.

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CuLTuReIII International ethno-futuristic festival

KAMWA–2008Date and site of the festival: “KAMWA” festival will be held

in Perm from July, 31st to August, 3rd

KAMWA-2008 FESTIVAL SCHEDuLEJuly, 31st

12.00 Presentation and opening of the KAMWA -2008 festival Festival club “TRIUMPH”. 44, Lenina str.

15.00 Opening of the “Art of light” exhibition Central exhibition hall. 10, Komsomolskiy av.

16.00 The festival participants’ concert. OPEN-AIR “Uralskih Dobrovoltsev” (Ural volonteers) sqaure. 10, Kuibysheva str.

18.00 “KOMI and KOMI” program. Performances of groups from Komi Republic and Komi-Permyak district. Theatrical performance “Legend of Kudym Osha”

Theatre of young spectator. 68, Bolshevistskaya str.

20.00 “Ethnomedia” program Festival club “TRIUMPH”. 44, Lenina str.

August, 1st10.00 Master-class of “intarsia” technique (ancient

turkic applique) Festival club “TRIUMPH”. 44, Lenina str.

15.00 Presentation of KAMWA almanac Central exhibition hall. 10, Komsomolskiy av.

18.00 “Ethnik fashion” festival Festival club “TRIUMPH”. 44, Lenina str.

22.00 Fire show “Lights at KAMA”. Theatrical performance “Sky argamac” by the Landscape theatre ULGER

Right bank of Kama river

August, 2nd12.00 OPEN-AIR in Khokhlovka. Festival of the New CROPS, gala

concerts of the festival participants, trade fairArchitectural-ethnographic museum Khokhlovka

21.00 ETHNOPARTY Festival club “TRIUMPH”. 44, Lenina str.

August, 3rd11.00 Master-class of playing the ethic musical instruments Festival club “TRIUMPH”. 44, Lenina str.

14.00 ETHNOTHEATRE PROGRAM. Theatrical performance “Singing arrow” by the ULGER theatre (Buriatia), Theatrical performance “What’s there?” by the DOZHD (rain) theatre (Chuvashia)

Theatre of young spectator. 68, Bolshevistskaya str.

19.00 Concert by the festival guests. Sergei Starostin and Mario Caldararu, Inna Zhelannaya

Perm academic theatre “Theatre”. 53, Lenina str.

August, 4th-5thScientific field symposium “Problems of archeological memorials conservation in historical landscape of Prikamye” Visit to Aniushkar ancient settlement.

Call to +7(342) 276-53-43Tickets’ preselling from July, 27th in a booking office of the Festival club “TRIuMPH”

International Forum “Pilorama-2008”

during july, 25th-27th 2008 there the inter-national forum “pilorama-2008” will be held at museum of political repressions’ history “perm-36”.

the Forum program includes:– bard song festival– theatre festival (one-man shows “one day

of ivan denisovich”, “Moscow kitchens”, “the roads, we didn’t chose”, “chonkin”)

– showing of films from the international film festival “stalker”, discussions.

the “pilorama-2008” forum is devoted to 60th anniversary of the general human rights declaration, 40th anniversary of human rights movement foundation in Russia and events of “prague spring” in 1968. the forum discus-sions will be participated by v.p. lukin, the russian federation ombudsman, s.a. kovalev, the russian federation first ombudsman, t.i. Margolina, the ombudsman of the Perm region, former dissidents (political prisoner of “perm-36” camp), the leading russian human rights activists, and participants of the Prague and Moscow events in 1968.

Attendance at the forum is free.By the museum there will be a campsite for

the Forum participants and guests. All the interested may come to hotel in Chusovoy city, Tel.: +7(342) 298-02-96, +7-951-95-67-177.

“air battles”, the only team competition of aeronauts in the world, will be held in kungur from july, 13th till july, 16th within the “ural sky fair” festival.

all the aeronauts, came to the “ural sky fair” festival, are divided into armies. the sky army is accompanied by a ground army, which consists of volunteers-teenagers, and fleet (a catamaran with crew of the same teenagers from military-sport camp). during these days stadiums, bridges, squares and other buildings in kungur are the objects to capture. the most valuable targets are t-34 tank, installed at the square of Victory, and the enemy control center, indicated with white flag at pole. each army must fulfill a seizure, which is to hit a target, stated in the rules, with a marker.

the whole city is in excitement during morn-ing and evening hours. kids of school age, who are not taking part in the ground armies, but still want to participate, gather flyers, dropped from the balloons, to exchange them by the end of a day for an extra shell (marker) for their favorite army. or they take part in erudition contests, also winning extra points for the teams. at the same time adults, chosen any army or an aerostat, literally chase their “idols” and count its wins and loses.

Admission to the events is freeInformation telephone: : +7-908-270-86-56

(Marina), +7-919-49-241-51 (Elena)

“AIR BATTLES ” IN KuNGuR SKY

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION VISTORY

The Perm group “Triptych” won the first place among duets at the VII international song festival “Petersburg chord - 2008”.

The Perm duet “Triptych”, absolutely unknown by the capital author song circles, by entering the second round of the competition, made its fans happy.

The second round results: among duets, the Perm one (Olga and Ksenia, performing not only author songs, but also interested in folklore) won the first place. “Triptych” presented to the jury one of the first round songs and their version of the “Steppe fife” song.

Pearl orchid for the Perm ballet

A soloist ballet dancer Yaroslava Araptanova was awarded in Moscow with a III degree order of S. Diaghilev (“Pearl orchid”). The order of Diaghilev is founded by the Diaghilev Centre, organization which has been glorifying the Diaghilev’s name and continues his life’s work for more than 15 years already. Start to the award system of Diaghilev was given in 1992. The order, established by the Fund in the name of the great man, is presented with honor to outstanding figures of the Russian culture and people, who contribute into culture in other ways.

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phOTO By IgOR kaTaev / PuBLISHING HOuSE “FELIx“PHOTOGRAPHY / PuBLICHING PROJECT

[email protected]

TemPLes OF Perm KrAi

uSpenSKAyA CHuRCHby the initiative of governor – general of

perm and tobolsk evgeniy petrovhich kashkin in 1784 the construction of a wooden church was started at the egoshihinsky graveyard.

the wooden church was built very fast and served perm residents for many years. almost every Perm citizen had his relatives buried in the egoshihinsky graveyard.

At the end of the XiX century the donations were gathered for construction of a new stone church. on june, 25th 1900 the bishop of perm and solikamsk Petr laid the first stone of the new building. the new church was built owing to hard efforts of the church elder, Perm merchant, vasiliy ivanovich korolev, and was sanctified by bishop nikanor on november, 21st 1905. the stone church with the same bell tower was built according to the project of perm architect a.i. ozhegov. the small neat church decorated with arches and kokoshniks, was painted with oil-based paint and covered with sheet metal. the church had one priest and psalmist.

in the church at the old graveyard the citizens mourned for the perished during the wars and revolutions. the church survived during the hard time of soviet reign: deprivation of prop-erty, persecution of believers, repressions. in the late 30s the church was closed, by the deci-sion of the authorities of May, 25th 1940 the church’s building was handed over to Molotv’s committee for cinemafication. without the proper care the building was slowly collapsing.

the reconstruction of the church was started in 1989, when the authorities returned it to believers.

…Three figures in Russian army

uniform appeared from behind the hill. They looked intently to the sides, trying to guess the enemy’s hiding. Though the first shot was unexpected…

that was the be-ginning of the battle reconstruction between Russian and german troops of the WWi – the unprecedented event in prikamye. the movement of histori-cal battles reconstruc-tion is widely spread in russia and abroad. the club members decide for themselves which epoch they are interested in and start studying this period of

time. our city wasn’t an exception. perm club of military history “194th troitzky-sergievsky in-fantry regiment” recon-structs the last decade of the Russian Empire, the war with germans in particular. the core of the club is made up by several people, with the unchanging leader Dmitry Lobanov, one of the founders of the historical magazine “retrospectiva”.

perm krai Museum has been cooperating with “194th regiment” for more than 10 years. the idea to recreate a battle has been long in the minds of the museum’s workers, but became possible only in 2007. in the territory of

the famous khokhlovka Museum were held the “grand Maneuvers”- the historical military festival. the museum’s visitors had a chance to see in person the bat-tles of 1914-1917 which earned the glory to the Russian army, but not the victory. the crack-ing of shots, gunpow-der smoke, cheering shouts!. after the battle, when the combatants were “resurrected” the everyone rushed in to get acquainted with each other. whilst the adults were taking pic-tures, the children tried to find the cartridge cases to boast of with friends.

We are glad to an-nounce that the archi-

tectural ethnographic museum will hold battle reconstructions annu-ally. we are inviting everyone to see this breathtaking perfor-mance on 6 july 2008 in khokhlovka. the beginning is at 12:00.

L. G. OShePkOv, The Permsky krai Museum, history

department, Senior researcher

Address: 614000 Perm, 15 Sibirskaya str.,

Tel: 8(342)212-56-57, 212-54-46

The museum web-site: museum.perm.ru

LeGenDs OF PriKAmye

ThE mIRACLES OF ThE GREAT PERmSince the old times

the people inhabited the banks of Kama, Vishera and Kolva rivers. They called themselves Permyaks and lived in peace.

they grew the crops and bred the cattle. Old people say, that they even wanted to tame the elks. to use them instead of horses. though not everyone had them. people called those the forest riders. the riders lived apart from common people. People also say that the riders worshipped some golden woman. but who knows? that was long ago.

Meanwhile the Per-myaks were building villages, and surrounded themselves by ramparts, moats and lath fences fend off the evil people. in the permyak’s language “kor” or “kar” means “town”. thus they called their

settlements: Anushkar, iskor, redikor. in the evil times many people found here refuge. they built huts, dwellings, plowed the land, and married to permyaks.

though, our land, which in Moscow was called the great Perm, in those times was surrounded by tartar tribes: from the West – kazans, from the east – siberians, ready to cross our borders at any time. though where are those borders? Hard to say at once. dense wood is everywhere.

Being incited by siberian tzar, the knyaz Asyk of Pelym, decided to ravage the great perm. he gathered the tartars and voguls, and like a storm cloud thun-dered upon the land of perm. that was hard time for Perm people, indeed.

the fire arrows set ablaze the oily armours of the enemy, like torches. Many voices of the wounded filled the town. and there the lead clouds parted and the st. martyr paraskeva appeared. like the one

in the church. tall, with stern eyes, but with kindness on the face and azure garland upon the head. tartars and voguls lost their speech at once. their hands won’t move, legs won’t come. and saint Martyr took the wounded and carried them away and hid in the woods. since that time no one dared to defile those woods. People revered it and worshipped there. walk in that wood and the sins will be redeemed.

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CuLTuReRECIEPT FROM

CHIEF-COOK

CHICKEN BuRRITO

Oleg Vankov, cook expert, two times gold medalist of Russian Championship in cookery and service, chief-cook of the “Loсos Gringos” restaurant

Ingredients (per 1 person)• wheat flat cake – 1 piece• cheddar cheese – 4 gr.• onions - 5 gr.• black kidney beans - 15 gr.• cheddar cheese sauce – 50 gr.• chicken fillet - 70 gr.• vegetable oil• guacamole sauce• fresh tomatoes - 30 gr.• sour-cream – 30 gr.

Descriptionpickle the chicken, and then fry it. Roast and

stew kidney beans. spread salsa and guacamole on the wheat flat

cake. put mixed chicken, beans, cheese, tomatoes, and onions on top. Roll it up into a tube. fry on all sides.

Cut the cooked burrito in two, lay it on plate, spread cheddar chease sauce on top. serve with guacamole, salsa sauces and sour-cream.

BOris PAsTernAKTO The nOBeL PriZe AwArDinG AnniVersAry

lARA’S AddReSS in yuRiAtinPerm is the prototype

of Yuriatin city in the novel of Pasternak. Fates of a Moscow doctor and poet Yuriy Zhivago and Lara Antipova were destined to meet. This is the Perm literary myth as beautiful as the story of Romeo and Juliette.

Nowadays Perm is even included into global guide-books. trips along Perm of Pasternak (yuriatin) are organized. the last year British travel agency “russian experience” arranged a tour, devoted to 50th anniversary of “doctor Zhivago” novel. the British tourists were offered to make a trip to perm (yuriatin). and lara’s house was one of the route’s features.

But, unfortunately there is no the very lara’s house anymore. still, we can show guests of our city the famous “house with figures”,

which was the prototype of the house in “doctor Zhivago”.

pasternak’s “house with figures” is theatri-cal, and the look of the

gribushin’s house has some scenery details. this is not an accidental association. aleksandr turgevich, who built the mansion in 1905 for a tea merchant and patron s.M. gribushin, was an actor himself. his propensity to theatrical decor is visible through all of his architectural designs.

since March 3rd, 1919 the house was in property of the officers canteen, later military hospital. since 1921 part of the house was occupied with children’s unit of the municipal tuberculosis clinic. but already in 1922 the building had been given for opened children’s hospital, stayed here until 1988, when the mansion was transferred to the possession of the Perm scientific centre of the Russian Academy of science.

...Yuriy Andreevich copied it from the paper, surprised with strangeness of indication: “Kupecheskaya street, against the house with figures”…

... Antipova lived at the corner of Kupecheskaya street and Novosvalochniy lane, opposite the, falling into the blue, dark house with figures, seen by the doctor for the first time now. The house was really worth its sobriquet and made strange, anxious impression. Along its roof it was belted with mythological caryatids in one and a half human height. At the moment, between two gusts, it seemed to the doctor that all the women populace came out to the balcony, and leaned over the banisters, staring at him and Kupecheskaya street.

This retrospective exhibition presents

over 200 best items of Russian artistic porcelain produced at the famous Impe-rial Porcelain Factory (St. Petersburg) and at the Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory (Leningrad) throughout over two centuries. One can see big interior vases, sculptures, sets, plates, etc. from the Perm State Art Gallery collections, which were designed by sculptors and artists of the 18th -20th centuries.

the very first services for the tsar’s palace were manufactured at the imperial Porcelain factory in st. peters-burg which had been founded in 1744 by decree of Elisabeth, daughter of Peter the great. the creator of Russian porcelain was scientist Dmitry Vino-gradov, the manager of the factory in 1748-1751.

it is known that in 1780-1790’s imperial

Porcelain Factory held one of the leading posi-tions in the European porcelain manufactures. the design ingeniously combines the traditions of European porcelain and a Russian percep-tion of beauty. cath-erine reign (1762-1796) marked the pinnacle of the porcelain produc-tion in russia. the im-perial Porcelain Factory produced several ser-vices for the courtiers

and for the Empress herself. catherine’s son Paul i, who reigned from 1796 till 1801, was a lover of porcelain on a par with his mother.

the imperial Porce-lain Factory continued the tradition of produc-ing grandiose palace sets throughout the 19th century and em-ployed the services of talented artists, sculp-tors and architects to produce them.

After the victory of the October revolution the Factory became the creative and technical base where new porce-lain came to existence, the porcelain which combined utility with beauty in the service of the people.

the porcelain of that time manifested great ideas; it expressed lively emotions and lofty ideals. the exhibi-tion shows a unique collection of the world famous Revolutionary porcelain. Masters reflected the pathos of revolutionary romanti-cism, the dreams of the future and the pictures of those times.

in the soviet period the traditions of the past were successfully followed and developed by the artistic staff of the Leningrad Porcelain factory. the exposition also contains various artistic genres of soviet porcelain art in its de-velopment, rare author porcelain items of the 1970-1980s by promi-nent artists as well.

The Perm sTATe ArT GALLery PresenTs The exhiBiTiOn

tHe golden poRCelAin of RuSSiA. 18tH-20tH C.

C.v. Chekhonin kingdom of workers and peasants will never end

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Circus«BALDINI». featuring actors from Italy, Brazil, venezuela, and poland.Date: From July, 3rd.Perm Circus. Address: 112, Uralskaya, St., Perm Tel. +7 (342) 260-48-87

Exhibition and festivals of Perm‘’Crusade’’ Exhibition. Cyborgs and virtual reality are a part of our lives now. Where are those alien ag-gressors, who threatened us from the movie screens and newspaper pages? Date: 1.07- 14.07«SOUZ-ART» GalleryAddress: 62, Lunacharski St., Perm. Tel.: +7-902-83-539-70

‘’Artists - City’’ Exhibition. exhibition is dedicated to

285th anniversary of perm cityDate: July, 1st-14thCulture Centre of Solda-tov (from 12:00 till 20:00). Address: 79, Komsomolski Avenue, Perm.

‘’My second past’’ Exhibi-tion. Joint art exhibition of anastasia sautenko and vitaly nitochkin.Date: 26.06 - 13.07Artist’s House. Address: 27, Maxim Gorky St., Perm.

‘’Amaterasu of ural or facing the rising sun’’ Exhibition. The exhibition of origi-nal works is dedicated to national artistic traditions of Japan.Date: 24.06 - 13.07Artist’s House. Address: 27, Maxim Gorky St., Perm.

‘’Droodles’’ photo exhibi-tion.Theme: everything that brings joy. participants: amateur photographers.Date: July, 1st-14thAddress: «Parus» business center (14th level). 59/1, Ostrovsky St., Perm.

‘’Perm Air’’ photo exhibi-tion. about perm and perm citizens. Works of young artists.Date: 2.07 - 16.07Address: Central Exhibi-tion Hall. 10, Komsomolski Avenue, Perm. Tel. +7 (342) 210-83-30.

Perm Sports‘’Self-overcoming’’ tradi-tional marathon Date: 20.07City Park of Culture and Recre-ation «Balatovo»

CinemaRetrospective film show of the grand director Ingmar Bergman, dedicated to his 90th anniversary. The spectators will see 8 films of the master: “seventh seal”, “strawberry lawn”, “Com-munion”, “autumn sonata”, “puppet life”, and “after the rehearsal”Date: 07.07 - 14.07«Premier» cinemaAddress: 17, Pionersky St., Perm. Tel. +7 (342) 245-21-77.

PhilharmonicsThe Evening of Organ Music «I.S. Bach and French organ music of xxth century». per-former – the laureate of the international competitions vera lopantzeva (moscow) Date: July, 29th.19.00Address: 14, Kuibyshev St., Perm

Corey Morrell, Dallas, Texas, united States, Occupation – Administration:

— these articles of a national nature are very informative and easy to read. However i am more interested in the articles of a local nature. i assume your paper was designed with the intent of reaching westerners and sparking their interest in the perm region. if this is so then local interests are of great impor-tance.

the paper «the perM days» has a lot of articles of a business nature and this is good for westerners looking for new business opportunities. as a tourist, like myself, i found your articles on the local people and culture more interest-ing. i also enjoy reading about the res-taurants and theaters. i did read the june edition. i particularly enjoyed the article on vishera.

i love river rafting and this article makes me want to come there and float down the river. the writer was very descriptive of the river and it was easy to imagine what it would look like. the technical specifications about the river are also important for those who enjoy rafting. but to be honest i really like all aspects of the paper it is well written and you should be proud of your accomplish-ments.

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The Krai’s Forum “Russian World”

was held on Sunday, July, 5th in the Ilinsky settlement. The festival of international unity and agreement was dedicated to 450th anniversary of the Stroganovs family in Permsky Krai.

ilinsky is an old settlement – the monument of the “stro-ganovs’ epoch”. this is the centre of so called stroganovs’ region. the stroganovs fa-voured the preservation

and development of russian culture. there the basics of domestic forestry were founded. under the patronage of our remarkable compa-triots the best tradi-tions of visual, theatri-cal and vocal art were developing. over 150 years the settlement (illinskoe Village at the time) was the capital of the stroganovs’ estates.

in 2004 permsky krai proposed to implement ethno-culutural project “russian world”. then the first forum was held in one of the old-

est cities of Prikamye – solikamsk. the next were kungur, usolye, cherdyn.

the main purpose of

the ethno-cultural ac-tion “russian world” is preservation of interna-tional agreement in the region.

eXHibition of pHoto CHiRoMAnCeR

The exhibition of the French photojour-

nalist Annie Assouline “The Hand of the Writers” opened on July, 3rd “Maris Art” gallery. The exhibi-tion was supported by the French Embassy in Russia and Alliance Francais-Perm.

During different times Annie Assouline cooperated with major Paris publishing houses and photo agencies. in january 1984 when she was taking pictures of 87 year surrealist poet phillipe soupeaux for one of the magazines, Annie made a photo that amazed even her. the old man leaned his head on his palms, and the photograph

saw at once that his face resembled a heart surrounded by oak branches. and his hands – strong, sin-ewy explained the es-sence of the picture the best. from that time on Annie Assouline became the real photo

chiromancer.taking pictures of fa-

mous writers for Opale agency, she always made “portraits” of their hands for her own collection. and finally her collection became a full-fledged exhibi-tion.

the photograph claims that hands express emotion much better than face. even the simplest moves can reveal the human soul, looking how he or she holds cigarette of glass, dishevels hair, counts the banknotes, counts the beads or runs fin-gers over the strings.

Many famous people like Alberto Mora-via, jean baudrillard, jacques derride, paul ricker, aniie ernaux, Francoise sagan and other 50 french intel-lectuals became the main characters of the photographers works.

The exhibition works from July, 3rd till July, 27th 2008. Address: 32, Lunacharsky St., Perm. Tel. +7 (342) 212-89-56

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