Приют
Избушка "Лыжни здоровья"
The place
Приют ("Refuge/shelter") in Perm Krai, Perm/Krasnokamsk sector (western-facing central Urals, Volga basin, Russia), at 156 m elevation, temperate taiga of the central Urals. Continuous Russia Perm Urals cluster (batches 260-378). Priyut, a traditional Ural hikers' shelter (Perm, population 1 million, 5th largest in the Urals; the Kama river, 1805 km, 6th longest in Russia, a tributary of the Volga; Perm Zoo, an iconic regional site; Perm-36, the last Gulag camp in the USSR, 1946-1988, now closed and turned into a museum of memory and freedom; Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, 1872-1929, born in Perm; the heritage of the Russians and Komis — Russians, a Slavic people, and the Komi, a Finno-Ugric Zyryan people, around 130,000 strong, speaking Komi, based around Perm and Kirov; the Stroganov family, a historic industrial dynasty since 1558 under Ivan IV, holding a monopoly on Ural salt and iron and financing the conquest of Siberia; Yermak Timofeyevich, a Cossack who in 1581 conquered the Khanate of Sibir, defeating Kuchum; and the iconic heritage of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893, born in Votkinsk in the Urals).
The setting
Perm Perm/Krasnokamsk central Urals west-facing Volga basin Russia 156 m temperate taiga central Urals, continuous cluster batches 260-378, priyut Ural hikers' shelter + Perm population 1 million 5th largest Urals + Kama river 1805 km 6th longest in Russia Volga tributary + Perm-36 last Gulag 1946-1988 museum of freedom + Diaghilev Ballets Russes 1872-1929 born Perm, Russians-Komi Slavic + Komi Finno-Ugric Zyryan around 130,000 Perm/Kirov + Stroganov 1558 Ivan IV salt/iron monopoly Urals Siberia + Yermak 1581 Sibir Kuchum + Tchaikovsky 1840-1893 Votkinsk Urals.
