"The Peter and Paul Cathedral is one of the oldest churches in the Perm Diocese.

The Peter and Paul Cathedral is the first stone building in Perm. It is a rare example of Russian provincial Baroque in the Urals.

One of the first relics of the Peter and Paul Cathedral was the venerated icon of the Great Martyr Eustathius Placidas. According to legend, several years before the construction of the Yegoshikha Plant, Saint Eustathius appeared to a peasant in the village of Gory (Gorki), located on the right bank of the Yegoshikha River. A wooden pillar with the saint's icon was erected at the site of the miraculous appearance, and after the church was completed, the icon was transferred to the church. Every year on September 20, the feast day of the Great Martyr Eustathius, residents of the Yegoshikha Plant, and later the city of Perm, would hold a solemn procession to the village of Gorki, to the site of the saint's miraculous appearance. Here stood one of the four most revered relics of Perm—the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.

The history of Perm's first church is linked to the construction of the Yegoshikha Copper Smelter on a site formerly occupied by dense, almost uninhabited forest. The smelter was located at the confluence of the Yegoshikha and Kama Rivers, in present-day Razgulyay. Construction began by decree of Peter the Great and was completed in 1723. Simultaneously with the founding of the smelter, the first houses for workers and their families were built, thus giving rise to the first settlement, which soon became so populous that a church was needed.
The chronicle records that the foundation of the wooden Sts. Peter and Paul Church was laid in 1724, during the reign of Empress Catherine I.

A fire in 1759 destroyed most of the Yegoshikha village, but the wooden church survived. Apparently, it was small and eventually couldn't accommodate all those wishing to pray. Therefore, a stone church dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was built next to it, with a side chapel dedicated to the Great Martyr Catherine. It was consecrated on November 23, 1764. The Catherine side chapel had been consecrated earlier, on November 22, 1762, by a charter from Bishop Bartholomew (Lyubarsky). The wooden church was demolished due to its dilapidation, and the first priest mentioned above was buried at its altar. The new church became the first stone building in the village, later the city of Perm. The multi-tiered bell tower and five-domed church, built in the Russian Baroque style, were striking in their architectural grandeur and rich decoration. The church was built by master craftsmen from the capital. It is worth noting that only one other similar structure is known – the Church of Ivan the Warrior in Moscow on Yakimanka.

In the post-revolutionary period, the Peter and Paul Cathedral was repeatedly burglarized, and in the early 1930s, the church was closed. For a long time, it housed the People's Commissariat of Defense's special workshops.
Since 1974, the cathedral and its grounds have been used as a production facility.

In 1975, the facade paneling was removed and the domes, dome covering, and apse were restored (by architect G. L. Katsko). The bell tower and baroque decor were not restored.

In 1987, the Peter and Paul Cathedral building was transferred to the Perm Scientific Restoration Workshops. In 1989, plans were made to adapt the main part of the "chetverik" building for use as a design department.

In early 1989, the Perm city branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments (VOOPIK) and several other organizations proposed creating a historical and architectural museum of Perm on the premises of the Peter and Paul Cathedral and designating a protected area around it.

In September 1990, by decision of the second session of the Perm City Council, part of the church—the refectory and annex—was transferred to the community of believers of the Russian Orthodox Church. The church's restoration began. The first service in the cathedral took place on January 5, 1991.

At the end of 1992, Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral was completely cleared of non-religious organizations. The Perm Diocesan Administration.

In 2008, it was decided to carry out partial restoration work on the cathedral."

Вадим Некрасов

"The first stone building in Perm. To walk around the church is to find yourself in the very heart of the historic city! It was in front of this church that Catherine II's decree was read: "Respecting the advantageous location of the Yegoshikha plant and its suitability for establishing a provincial capital, we have ordered the actual privy councilor and prosecutor general, Prince Vyazemsky, to agree with the owners of that plant to cede it to the treasury, which holds a considerable debt there. And since some of the plant's shareholders have already declared their full consent, we hereby order you to designate this location as the provincial capital for the Perm viceroyalty, naming it Perm; and consequently, to establish there all the buildings that will be needed for the initial period, and especially if an administration for our institutions is established, to house government offices.""

Gennadiy Vozhennikov

"An ancient Orthodox church. During the Soviet era it was used either as a warehouse or as a club. It was given to the Orthodox Church in the nineties, restored and put in order."

Леонид Крысин