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unusual facts about Perm Oblast


Permsky

Perm Oblast (Permskaya oblast), a former federal subject of Russia


Jaan Soots

In 1940, Soviet occupation authorities arrested Soots and in 1942 he died in Ussollag prison camp in Usolye, Perm Oblast.

Kuksha of Odessa

In 1938, he was sentenced by the Soviet authorities as a "cult servant" to 5 years of concentration camps in the town of Vilma, in Molotov Oblast (today Perm Oblast), Ural.

Pechora–Kama Canal

It saw actual on-the-ground work done, of the most unusual kind: on March 23, 1971, three 15-kiloton underground nuclear charges were exploded near the village of Vasyukovo in Cherdynsky District of Perm Oblast, some 100 km north of the town of Krasnovishersk.


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