Perm Webcam – Steer the Camera from Perm Expo to the Kama

The Perm Webcam looks out from high on an apartment block in Danilikha, a neighborhood in Perm’s Dzerzhinsky City District, and anyone can steer it. Type a preset command into the stream’s YouTube chat and, after a delay of 30 to 40 seconds, the lens swings to Perm Expo’s congress and exhibition centre, the new overpass that carries Krisanova Street over Shosse Kosmonavtov, Gymnasium No. 4, the supermarkets on Krisanova Street or wide panoramas to the northwest and southwest. Further out it reaches the Kama River and the Krasavinsky Bridge. Half an hour before sunset the camera turns to face the sun by itself and holds there until half an hour after. At night the overpass, the roads and the fuel station in front of Perm Expo glow under rows of floodlights.

About Perm

Perm grew out of a copper-smelting works founded in 1723 at the village of Yagoshikha. It was set up by Vasily Tatishchev, whom Peter the Great had put in charge of the Ural factories and who founded Yekaterinburg in the same years, and it was granted city status and the name Perm in 1781. The city now stretches for 70 kilometers (43 miles) along the Kama and about 40 kilometers (25 miles) across it, at an elevation of 171 meters (561 feet). It counted 991,162 people at the 2010 census, and a 2025 estimate puts it at about 1,084,000.

Danilikha takes its name from the small Danilikha River, and one of the camera’s presets is trained on a footbridge across it. The ground below the camera has been rebuilt in stages. The first stage of the Krisanova Street project put the overpass over Shosse Kosmonavtov, which now carries traffic, and the wider plan widens Krisanova and Karpinskogo streets to six lanes, rebuilds the tram tracks and adds a new bridge over the Danilikha. The operator set up 14 separate presets to follow the road works, and the finished stretches show tram tracks down the middle and red-surfaced cycle paths along the edges.

Perm Expo dominates the nearer views. Its congress and exhibition centre has a large video screen on the facade and a rooftop banner that reads, in Russian, “Perm, the city where the future is born”, with a Gazprom Neft fuel station and a wide parking lot in front. The panorama presets take in rows of five-storey apartment blocks, newer residential towers with cranes above them, and on clear days the Krasavinsky Bridge. Opened on 21 October 2005, it runs 1,737 meters (5,699 feet) across the Kama and is the largest bridge in Perm Krai.

Weather and Climate in Perm

Perm has a warm-summer continental climate (Koppen Dfb). January averages -12.5 C (9.5 F), and the city’s record low is -47.1 C (-52.8 F), set in December. Winter is when the camera turns almost monochrome, with snow on the roofs and verges and white plumes rising from chimneys on the skyline. Around the December solstice the sun is up for only about six and a half hours. Spring arrives late, and April averages just 3.9 C (39 F).

July averages 18.5 C (65 F), and the record high is 37.5 C (99.5 F). Near the June solstice the sun is up for just over 18 hours. October averages 3.3 C (38 F), and late October frames show bare trees, the last yellow leaves and low cloud over the skyline. The city gets about 690 millimeters (27.2 inches) of precipitation a year, and the operator notes that some positions are hard to make out in heavy rain or snow.

Things to Do Near Perm

The Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre continues a tradition that began when the city’s first opera theatre opened in 1870. The Perm State Art Gallery is known for its paintings from the 15th to 18th centuries and its regional wooden sculptures, and PERMM, the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, opened in 2009 in the old river terminal building. On Lenin Street, the Legend of the Perm Bear sculpture shows the walking bear from the city’s coat of arms, the same bear that sits in the corner of the stream. The Permyak Salty Ears sculpture is one of the city’s most visited sights, and the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception dates from 1875.

Out of town, the Khokhlovka open-air museum stands on the right bank of the Kama, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Perm. Founded in 1969 and opened to visitors in 1980, it was the first open-air museum of wooden architecture in the Urals, and its 23 wooden buildings, dating from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, were moved there from across Perm Krai. Bolshoye Savino airport lies 16 kilometers (9.9 miles) southwest of the city.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Perm located?

Perm is the administrative centre of Perm Krai, on the Kama River in the European part of Russia, west of the Ural Mountains. The camera is in Danilikha, in the city’s Dzerzhinsky City District. Perm runs on UTC+5, two hours ahead of Moscow, and that is the time shown on the camera’s clock.

What can you see on the Perm Webcam?

The presets cover Perm Expo and the Krisanova Street overpass, Gymnasium No. 4, the Magnit and Pyaterochka supermarkets on Krisanova Street, the turret the operator calls the Loader’s House, the Perm Flour Mill and two wide city panoramas. A further preset points at the Kama River and the Krasavinsky Bridge.

Can you control the Perm Webcam?

Yes. Nik CCTV lets anyone in the stream’s YouTube chat move the camera between preset positions by typing a command without spaces, such as position2 for Perm Expo or position15 for the Kama River. The stream runs 30 to 40 seconds behind, so a command takes a moment to appear. The full command list is linked in the video description.

Does the Perm camera show the Kama River?

Yes, on one preset. Position15 aims at the Kama River and the Krasavinsky Bridge, though both are some distance away and haze or low cloud can hide them.

What is the big building with the screen on the camera?

That is Perm Expo’s congress and exhibition centre on Shosse Kosmonavtov, with the Krisanova Street overpass in front of it.

What is the weather like in Perm today?

The weather card in the bottom corner of the stream shows the current temperature in Celsius with the day and night forecast. Monthly averages run from -12.5 C (9.5 F) in January to 18.5 C (65 F) in July.

How cold does Perm get in January?

January averages -12.5 C (9.5 F), and the record low is -47.1 C (-52.8 F). Around the winter solstice the sun is up for only about six and a half hours.

Can you watch the sunset on this camera?

Yes. The camera turns toward the sunset by itself 30 minutes before the sun goes down and stays there for 30 minutes after. After dark some positions are hard to see, but the floodlit roads and Perm Expo stay clear.

Source: Nik CCTV