The "Legend of Perm Bear" (or "Walking Bear") is a bronze sculpture on Komsomolsky Prospekt that has become one of Perm's most photographed objects. It depicts a full-size bear in mid-stride, head up and expression alert — naturalistic rather than heraldic. The bear is Perm's civic symbol, appearing on the city's coat of arms, and this sculpture plays on that identity with affection rather than self-importance.
The sculpture stands on one of Perm's main pedestrian streets alongside several other public art installations installed during the city's 2000s arts-led urban renewal period. Together they make Komsomolsky Prospekt an unusually lively piece of public space for a Russian provincial city. The nearby "Permyak Salty Ears" sculpture, which invites you to photograph your own face through a frame shaped like a pair of oversized ears, is another example of the same city-art sensibility.