The history of Kalinino spans from its founding in 1732 with a copper smelting plant to an art object opened in 2018 that explores events from the village’s history through students’ work. A scheduled guided tour at the museum and educational center complements this view with items from everyday peasant life and a hands-on activity. For travel planning, the conditions of this tour as well as bus connections from Perm and Kungur are also relevant.
Local history and merchant houses
Kalinino was established in 1732 with the founding of a copper smelting plant on the Yug River. The Yug is a left tributary of the Turka; the Turka flows into the Iren. The surviving buildings also point to the village’s history: in Kalinino there are numerous pre-revolutionary merchant houses. The manor house of the merchant Afanasy Nikolayevich Kurochkin on Karl Marx Street was built in 1889.
The museum and educational center complements these historical reference points with the more recent local history. It opened in December 2018 in a former building of the children’s school for fine arts. Previously, the children’s school had been moved to the building of the general education school. In Kalinino, the merchant heritage and the later use of a school building thus represent different periods of the village’s history.
Art object and tour
On November 4, 2018, the art object “Gora istoriy” was opened in front of the museum and educational center. Its gabions display works by students from the workshop of Rustam Ismagilov from Perm. They depict important events from the history of Kalinino and include explanatory texts. The art object and the tour at the center both explore the village’s history, but in different forms: through students’ work and texts, and through a guided insight, respectively.
During the tour, visitors learn more about the history of the village and its surroundings, as well as items from everyday peasant life. Participants can try to smooth fabric with a katok and a valyok. The tour is scheduled for the period from November 12, 2025, to December 29, 2029. Groups must include at least eight people; after purchasing a ticket, telephone registration is required at 89028327493. Check the booking details before your trip so that the group size and registration fit your plans.
Getting there and orientation
Buses run on the Perm–Kalinino and Kungur–Kalinino routes. As route information can change, check the current timetable before your journey. The railway station is 400 meters from the museum and educational center. For orientation in the village, there is also tourist wayfinding with eleven information boards describing local sights.
Perm Region: Nature in the Basgi Nature Reserve
In the wider travel destination of the Perm Region, the Basgi Nature Reserve offers the excursion route “To the Summit of Northern Baseg” and also the route “To the Southern Baseg”. The round trip on the route to Northern Baseg is 11 kilometers; including the guide and rest breaks, the excursion takes five to eight hours. It begins at the checkpoint by the Schastlivy ranger station and continues on foot for 3,700 meters through taiga forest and about 300 meters across mountain meadows. The excursion season runs from June to October; check specific arrangements with the reserve before planning.
The visitor center of the nature reserve includes a small museum exhibition on the flora and fauna of the Perm Region. Environmental education talks, lectures, quiz events and games with films and multimedia presentations are held there regularly. In this way, the Perm Region offers not only the route but also insight into its nature themes through exhibitions and educational programs.
Discover more travel destinations: Vereshchagino, Yayva, Barda, Mostovaya, Sokol, Berezniki, Kondratovo and Alexandrovsk.
To the overall travel overview: Perm Region.
