The Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Ural Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences was established in accordance with the resolution of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences of 14 February 1980, No. 249 by reorganizing the Department of Polymer Physics of the UC USSR Academy of Sciences, which was established as an independent scientific institution on 1 July 1971 by the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers.

Currently, the institute includes 11 laboratories and 1 department.

In 2017, the Institute became part of Perm Federal Research Center UB RAS.

The Institute of Technical Chemistry was established in 1985 on the basis of the Department of Chemistry of the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Ural Center, USSR Academy of Sciences. Klyachkin Yury Stepanovich, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was the founder of the institute and the first director from 1985 to 2000.

Currently, the institute includes 7 laboratories.

In 2017, the Institute became part of Perm Federal Research Center UB RAS.

The Mining Institute was organized simultaneously with the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Perm Scientific Center in accordance with the decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 1088 of 26 September 1987 and the Resolution of the Presidium of the Ural Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 2-7 of 1 February 1988 Aerology and Geophysics of the Institute of Geophysics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Kungur Stationary of the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry named after Academician A.N. Zavaritsky. Currently, the institute includes 14 scientific divisions. In 2017, the Institute became part of Perm Federal Research Center of UB RAS.

The Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms was organized in 1988 on the basis of the Department of Breeding and Genetics of Microorganisms of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The first director ( 1988 - 2003) was academician Valery Aleksandrovich Chereshnev. Currently, the institute includes 8 scientific divisions. In 2017, the Institute became part of Perm Federal Research Center UB RAS.

PRIA is the oldest agricultural research institution in the Western Urals. In 1913, the official opening of the Perm provincial agricultural experimental station took place, initially intended to solvie the problems of the cultivation of the poor sod-podzolic soils of the Urals. The preservation and improvement of soil fertility, which is the main means of agricultural production, remains one of the main fields of the institute work of up to the present time.

In 1988 after numerous transformations and change of location the Research Institute of Agriculture was established in Lobanovo on the basis of the experimental station. In 2017, the institute became part of the PFRC UB RAS.