In this small book, dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the Great Russian Road to Siberia through the Ural Mountains, which at one time connected the European and Asian parts of Moscow Rus', readers will become acquainted with the history of the construction of the Babinovskaya road and its role in the life of both our unique Upper Kama region and and Russia. Here the routes to Siberia before the opening of the Babinovsky tract are considered and some materials are presented for the biography of the first Russian road engineer - Artemy Babinov. For researchers, teachers, students, students, local historians, for everyone interested in the history of our Motherland.