Trading bath Kashina

The bathhouse was first mentioned in 1874, when Vasily Petrovich Kashin, on behalf of his wife Ekaterina Petrovna Kashina, applied to the City Council for permission to install a water supply system and a steam engine in the bathhouse building. The bathhouse building was one-story, but in 1904 the second floor was built on it. The bathhouse was below the sidewalk level, its second floor was made of embossed masonry, and the attic was made in the form of a mezzanine . The building of the bathhouse had a skillfully made wrought-iron cast-iron parapet and was an adornment of Monastery Street. Water in the bath came from Kama . The same water was used for the fountain on the embankment of the river with a pool of 824 buckets.

Prices for bath services were: number 50 kopecks - 1 ruble per hour for the family; general branch - 10 kopecks per hour; for soldiers - 2 kopecks. There was a buffet in the bathhouse.

The bathhouse retained its purpose after the October Revolution. In 1923-1926 it was called bath No. 1, then - bath No. 3.

During the Great Patriotic War, a sanitary checkpoint was located here, through which all Permians, as well as arriving and departing, had to pass without fail, which was necessary to combat pediculosis , which arose due to the evacuated residents of the western regions of the USSR that flooded into the city, lack of soap and firewood.

Of all the oldest baths in Perm, only Kashina’s bath, which has been operating for more than a hundred years, has survived. The bathhouse is a monument of urban planning and architecture. Now it houses private firms.

• Speshilova E.A. Old Perm: Houses. Streets. People. 1723-1917. - Perm: Italic, 1999 .-- 580 p. - 5,000 copies.