During Soviet times, Perm was a closed city to foreigners as well as to non-residents to a great extent. After the fall of the Communist regime in 1991, Perm rapidly modernised, causing an increasing demand for public transportation in and out of the city.
By ship
Perm is accessible through its Kama river port. Passenger transportation limits to recreational cruises to Chaikovsky, Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Volgograd. Cruise companies tend to sell return tickets only.
By bus
The central bus station of Perm, located on Shosse Kosmonavtov opposite the central market, mostly serves destinations in the province. Furthermore there are daily connections with Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Izhevsk and Chelyabinsk.
By plane
Perm has an international airport called Bolshoe Savino IATA: PEE; ICAO: USPP, maintaining international flights from Frankfurt with Lufthansa and several CIS capitals such as Dushanbe and Yerevan. Bolshoe Savino airport is the hub of Perm Airlines. Perm Airlines, Aeroflot, SkyExpress, AviaNova and S7 Airlines to Moscow 5-6 times per day to Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Surgut, Sochi Adler and Samara. In summer, charter flights are operated to Dubai, Munich, Tashkent and several destinations of the Turkish riviera.Perm's second regional airport Bakharevka now mainly serves as a helicopter airport.
By train
Perm-II station is an important junction on the Trans Siberian Railway and therefore very well served by train. There are many daily trains to Moscow, among which Perm's brand train called "Kama", as well as other major Russian cities.
By car
Although Perm lies on the "Siberian Trakt", the main motorway from Moscow to Siberia, its roads are no different from most of Russia's road network â of poor quality.