 The results of a detailed paleomagnetic study of five Permian Triassic sections of the Russian platform revealed a far-side effect whereby the paleomagnetic poles were shifted away from the expected position of the mean Permian Triassic paleomagnetic pole of the East European platform. This suggests that the East European platform may have been tilted during the Permian Triassic boundary or that there was a significant contribution of non-dipole components to the main geomagnetic field around 250 million years ago. Additionally, the study provides evidence for the tectonic rigidity of Eurasia, which could help explain the key features of the geomagnetic field at the Paleozoic-Mesozoic boundary. This article was authored by A.M. Fetisova, R. V. Veselowski, and M. P. Arafeev.