Cherdyn

• En Name — Cherdyn • Ru Name — Чердынь • Other Name — Чердін • Other Lang — Komi • Federal Subject — Perm Krai • Adm District Jur — Cherdynsky District • Adm Ctr Of — Cherdynsky District • Inhabloc Cat — Town • Mun District Jur — Cherdynsky Municipal District • Urban Settlement Jur — Cherdynskoye Urban Settlement • Mun Admctr Of1 — Cherdynsky Municipal District • Mun Admctr Of2 — Cherdynskoye Urban Settlement • Pop 2010census — 4920 • Postal Codes — 618601, 618603 Cherdyn is a town and the administrative center of Cherdynsky District in Perm Krai, Russia, located on the Kolva River. Population:

• Illustration — Historical center of Cherdyn and Kolva river • Illustration — View of Cherdyn in 1912 Local authorities advertise Cherdyn to tourists as the capital of the ancient Principality of Great Perm. This information is based on an 1835 study by the Swedish historian A. M. Strinnholm, as well as the 1815 study by the Russian historian Nikolay Karamzin. Strinnholm mentioned that the last trip of Scandinavian Vikings to Bjarmia (Great Perm) happened in 1222. Four well-equipped ships of Haakon IV of Norway burned Bjarmian towns to the ground. After that, the fur trade between the Great Perm and Western Europe was possible only via the Novgorod Republic, which controlled the Russian North. After the Russian principalities began to be united by the grand princes of Moscow, the princes of Perm, who already had Russian names, became their vassals, in addition to answering to Novgorod. Great Perm–Cherdyn supplied a great deal of silver paid as tribute of Moscow, which in turn was paid to the Golden Horde. Tensions between Moscow and Novgorod led to a war in 1471, after which Novgorod was annexed by Moscow. The following year, Cherdyn, Pokcha, and all other towns of Great Perm were annexed into the Russian state. The main fort of the Muscovites was built in Pokcha, located 7 km to the north of Cherdyn. It was burned by indigenous tribes in the beginning of the 16th century. Cherdyn, as well as all of Perm, was still governed by the dynasty of local princes of Great Perm until 1505. After that, the grand prince sent a governor from Moscow, and he chose Cherdyn as his residence. In 1535, Cherdyn was granted town rights. It was the starting point of an early river route to Siberia. Following the establishment of the Babinov Road—a more traveled overland route—the town quickly lost its significance. Many Polish insurgents of the January Uprising were exiled in Cherdyn in the 1860s.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Cherdyn serves as the administrative center of Cherdynsky District, to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division, the town of Cherdyn is incorporated within Cherdynsky Municipal District as Cherdynskoye Urban Settlement.

Cherdyn has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc), with very cold winters and warm summers. Precipitation is moderate and is somewhat higher in summer and fall than at other times of the year.

In 1934, during the times of Stalin, Cherdyn was the place to which poet Osip Mandelstam was sentenced to internal exile with his wife Nadezhda.