Nevyansk is the iron capital of the Demidovs, visiting the inclined Tower. All about the first factories, the nature of the Urals, old villages.

Nevyansk is the iron capital of the Urals and the inclined tower is a symbol of the power of Ural breeders.
(Gornozavodsk Urals and the history of Demidov breeders). Very interesting, soulful tour of the Gorno-Plant Urals.

• Along the way, I will tell you about the Urals in general and about the Middle Urals in particular, about nature, I will reveal the topic “Gornozavodsk civilization – the formation of the Ural factories”, about the first breeders of the Demidovs (1701) and their possessions in the Urals, about the Old Believers-Kerzhak-schismatics who fled from the center of Russia beyond the Stone Belt in the distant 1670s from the imposed reform of the church.

About the place of finding the famous Shigir idol (age about 11,000 years!) near Nevyansk. Idol in very good preservation to be in the Museum of History on Lenin 69.

About gold veins and platinum in the Ural Mountains. I will show you how to wash gold in quarries near Nevyansk.

• Visit to the Nevyansk inclined tower - a symbol of the power of Demidov breeders in the Urals (~ 1.5 hours). The cost is 500 rubles per person. Excursion to all floors of the tower with a guide of the complex.
• Visit a small museum of local history (in one complex with the tower).
• A visit to the Transfiguration Church, in it you will see a unique faience iconostasis.
• Visit to the house of Nevyansky gold miners (optional, dopplat)
• The temple from the village of Byngi (the Old Believer village) was built in 1796 by the breeder Savva Yakovlev (who bought the Demidov factories in the late 18th century from the descendants of the dynasty, 1769). A unique example of the factory Ural temple, one of the first stone temples in the Urals.
• I will show and tell you all about the phenomenon of Nevyansk Icon.

In addition, in Nevyansk you can see:

• Pottery shop in Tavolga - at will a very soulful aster - class, at a time of about 1 hour 20 minutes - with a tour and a potter's wheel (cost extra). Very warm, in the old building of the Zemstvo school in 1910.
• The house of the blacksmith Kirillov in the village of Kunara (inside there is no visit, look around). An interesting object is a painted house, also restored at the expense of Evgeny Roizman (~20 km from Nevyansk). If you go from Yekaterinburg + about 1 hour.
• I will show the places of gold mining of the 19th century on the Old Tagil tract and the ancient villages of the Gemstone strip.
• Museum of Gold in Berezovsky
• Private Park "Land of Ancestors" - I will tell you a little about the geology of the Urals, we will see the Ural dolmens and stone granite tents, touch the history of the Mansi people (the people who lived on these lands before the arrival of Russians for the Ural Range). You can book a tour of Mansi history. If I am lucky, I will try to arrange a tour with Alexei Slepukhin (the creator of the park and local historian in the northern districts of the Sverdlovsk region, for many years I have been studying the topic of Khanty-Mansi and ancient people in the Urals (all that was before the construction of plants)

During the tour, I tell you about the formation of the Gornozavodsk Urals, about the dynasties of the first and subsequent breeders, touch on the theme of Old Believers and the Ural style of painting icons, see modern masterpieces of the Nevyansk Icon, our Ural architecture of the hinterland, show beautiful landscapes.

The tour is based on your wishes! You can include a lot of things and see a lot in the mining part of the Urals.

Write, we will discuss all your wishes on vatsap, I will make an individual program.

Transportation services, guide services. In addition, entrance tickets to museums, master classes are paid.