The Perm Region, or Krai, has enormous natural resources and an educated population. What it needs for further development is outside investment. This is very welcome. Perm is open for business!

The Regional capital, Perm, with its million inhabitants, sits in the middle of the Perm Krai (Area) which has nearly three times that population. It is an area of 160,000 square kilometres, or about the size of England and Wales put together. It has a well-developed infrastructure, commercial and cultural as well as good transport links with the rest of Russia. Yet it is far enough away from Moscow that the pleasures of the Russian countryside can be enjoyed freely, by both residents and visitors alike.