Perm State University (now Perm State National Research University; Russian: Пермский университет, Пермский государственный университет, Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, romanised: Permskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet, Permskiy gosudarstvennyy natsionalynyy issledovatelskyy universitet) or PSU, PSNRU (Russian: ПГУ, ПГНИУ, romanised: PGU, PGNIU), is located in the city of Perm, Perm Krai, Russia.

Its origins lie in the opening of a branch of St. Petersburg University in the city of Perm.

This decision of the Russian government was in tune with the strategy of the cultural and geopolitical development of the Urals economic region.

[2][3] After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, European and UK partners of the university took a break from student internships and programmes with them.

The university cooperates with the European Commission, the World Bank, the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and several other organisations.