Пермская губерния
Pyotr Subbotin-Permyak was born in the city of Kudymkar, in the Solikamsky Uyezd of the Perm Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Komi-Permyak Okrug of Perm Krai, Russia). In 1914 he finished the Stroganov Artistic and Industrial College in Moscow and lectured there till 1918. Since 1919 Subbotin-Permyak worked in Perm Governorate. He founded the artistic workshops in Perm, Kudymkar and Kungur, which became the basis of artistic education in the region. He was the first director of Perm Artistic Secondary School. Subbotin-Permyak founded the Komi-Permyak District Museum of Ethnography, which now uses his name.