Nevyansk - Nizhnij Tagil - Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha

Route: Yekaterinburg - Nevyansk - Nizhnij Tagil - Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha - Yekaterinburg
Duration: 16 h
The first stop of our tour will be at Nevyansk – “Siberian Wealth Sources”, the capital of Demidovs empire. You will visit to the inclined tower of 18 century and acoustical room with extraordinary “spy” effects. Also  will know out some secrets of Russian history about minting counterfake coins in Siberia and illegal gold mining. The next our stop will be city Nizhnij Tagil which is the ancestral land of the Demidov’s - founders of the mining and metallurgical industries in the Urals. Nizhnij Tagil has been included into the register of "historical towns of Russia". It is one of the oldest mining centres of both home and world etallurgy, the former land of the Demidovs - the famous dynasty of plant and mine owners. The past and the present of Nizhnij Tagil are intermixed. We invite you to a city tour including visit to local lore museum of Nizhnij Tagil , Nizhne -Tagilsky Works Museum and trip to the top of Lissiya (Fox) mountain where you can get a perfect view of the city and surrounding landscape. Our last stop in the tour will be at museum of wooden architecture and folk art in the village Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha.  Ivan Samoilov, the founder of the museum-reserve, first restored the unique building of Saviour Transfiguration church in the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha in 1968-1978. He did it almost on his own money and opened a museum in the Church. On the first floor you can admire the collection of the Ural folk wall painting, the only one in the world. It is also Samoilov's merit. After the Great Patriotic War (he took part in it) during 30 years he collected walls, ceilings, "red corners", doors and other things from peasant's houses, decorated with painting inside. Later Ivan Samoilov became the director of the whole museum complex in the open sky which he organized in N. Sinyachikha. All over his district and region he looked for, found and brought to the village old wooden chapels, peasants' houses and huts and other buildings, peculiar to the Ural Russian country-side. They date back to the XVII-XVIII-th centuries. In the museum you can see a few chapels, two of them are rotundas. Also you can see a peasant's hut, a barn, a cellar, a granary, a well with a sweep and a bath-house (or a sauna), made of three layers of logs and more.  After we will back to Yekaterinburg.
Price: per person