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Cherdyn

Cherdyn is an old town in Perm Krai, Russia, on the Kolva river west of the northern Urals. First recorded in 1451, it was the centre of the principality of Great Perm, conquered by Moscow in 1472, and remained a hub of the fur trade and of the route to Siberia until the eighteenth century.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Cherdyn. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/cherdyn
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