St. Stephen's Monastery - High Point of the City

We first heard of Perm when we were in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1998. Our friend, Andy Frecka, was about to embark on a HUGE undertaking...pioneering a base in Perm! He invited us to join him, but the most we would commit was to "visit" during the summer (no snow, right?) of 1999.

Perm is located northeast of Moscow and west of Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk). It is the last city in Europe as one heads east to Asia on the Tran-Siberian Railway.

Approximately one million people live in Perm. She is in the heart of the Ural Mountains.