The history of the Palace of Culture began on May 22, 1938, when at a meeting with the director of the No. 19 factory named after V. V. V. Dubov, the idea of ​​designing an enterprise for his house of culture was considered instead of the former club built in early 1932 and no longer responding cultural needs of factory employees. It was assumed that the Palace of Culture will have a theater hall designed for 1200 spectators, a small hall with a stage for 400 spectators, as well as halls for physical education, dancing, winter and summer zones. The project was developed by the architectural and design workshop of Lengipragor IA Meerzon and AK Barutchev. It was based on the project stage of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. At the same time the facing of the building was supposed to be made of Ural granite and marble.

In May 1940 the construction of the building began. Its value was estimated at 10 million rubles, and the deadline was fixed for November 7, 1942.
April 14, 1941, when the height of the walls reached the third floor, sketches and photographs of the future Palace of Culture were demonstrated to workers on 83 tablets that were exhibited in the club. The author of the project, IA Meerson, himself told about them.

With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, construction was suspended on June 26, 1941.

On May 24, 1945, the commission conducted a technical survey of the unfinished and already beginning to collapse buildings and concluded that the construction should be resumed in order to avoid the final arrival of the building in disrepair. Works were resumed in 1946 [1] (according to other sources, in 1948 [2]). In the beginning it was required to restore dilapidated foundations, floors and brickwork. Work was carried out by the builders of Trust No. 14, German prisoners who lived in the camp at the site of the modern Zvezda stadium and in the building themselves were also involved in the work, and their protection was in neighboring houses. There is an urban legend about a riot among prisoners who immured one of the most cruel wardens in the wall, and it was found after the construction was completed, and part of the wall was relocated.

The author of the original project IA Meerzon died during the war in Leningrad, and a new project of finishing the building was carried out by the Moscow Institute Giproaviaprom.

The object was commissioned in 1950.

On November 17, 1950, the commission inspected the three-storeyed building of the building "B" of the Palace, and on the next day issued an opinion on the possibility of its commissioning. June 6, 1951 director of the plant. Stalin Soldatov at the solemn meeting announced the completion of construction work, on December 25, 1951 the commission took over the building "A", on February 12, 1952 - buildings "B" and "A", and by October 1952 the construction was completed the left wing of the Palace, in which the Children's Sector and the library are located. The grand opening of the Palace of Culture and Technology named after JV Stalin took place in June 1952. A. G. Soldatov played a significant role in the resumption of the construction of the Palace in the difficult postwar years.

In 1955, the first television station in Perm was created in the Palace building, which had a 10-kilometer radius and broadcast telecasts 3 times a week. In 1961, the Palace was renamed the Palace named after Ya. M. Sverdlov. The committees for the dissemination of scientific and political knowledge, for amateur performances, children's work, etc. were working here. Concerts, exhibitions of paintings, lectures, matinees, theme nights were held.

The palace became a monument of architecture and town-planning of the regional significance and in this status got into guides for Perm.

In the early 1990s, the Palace of Culture fell into a difficult economic situation, was pledged to the bank for its debts, could be sold and lost the status of a cultural center. A rally of city residents was held with the appeal to the city authorities for help, and assistance was rendered. On May 8 and June 24, 1996, the Perm administration issued decrees according to which the Palace of Culture was acquired into the ownership of the city and became known as the "Municipal Cultural Institution" Palace of Culture in Perm ".

In 2005, MUK "Palace of Culture in Perm" again changed its name: it was named after the former director of the Perm Engine Plant Anatoly G. Soldatov, since March 23, 2010 - "Municipal Autonomous Cultural Institution" Perm City Palace of Culture named after A.G. Soldatov "».

In 2009, the building of the monument of architecture and town-planning of the Perm region "Center of Culture named after. A.G. Soldatov "was restored.