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    Secrets of Nevyansk

    Secrets of Nevyansk
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    Nizhny Tagil

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    Guidance

    Self-Guided

    Activities

    9

    Duration

    11 hours

    Length

    95 mi

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    Starts from

    Nizhny Tagil

    Transportation

    By Car

    Guidance

    Self-Guided

    Duration

    11 hours

    Length

    95 mi

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    Александр Багно

    Александр Багно

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    • Visit the auditory room in the Nevyansk Tower.
    • Climb the cast iron steps of St. Nicholas Church in Byngga.
    • Take a ceramics workshop with the Maslikov family.
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    Take a trip through ancient temples, craft workshops and museums in Nevyansk and its environs.
    You will visit the famous listening room of Nevyanskaya Tower and learn about its secrets, visit the church, which has not stopped working since 1797, you will sit behind a real potter's wheel and make a figure out of clay with your own hands, and finally you will visit the museum, which holds icons painted two centuries ago.
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    Take a trip through ancient temples, craft workshops and museums in Nevyansk and its environs.
    You will visit the famous listening room of Nevyanskaya Tower and learn about its secrets, visit the church, which has not stopped working since 1797, you will sit behind a real potter's wheel and make a figure out of clay with your own hands, and finally you will visit the museum, which holds icons painted two centuries ago.
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    Александр Багно

    Александр Багно

    Travel Expert

    • Visit the auditory room in the Nevyansk Tower.
    • Climb the cast iron steps of St. Nicholas Church in Byngga.
    • Take a ceramics workshop with the Maslikov family.
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    Day 1

    95 mi

    Temples and crafts of Nevyansk and its surroundings

    We will visit the Nevyanskaya Tower, where we will climb the bell tower, get acquainted with the chime mechanism and visit the listening room. Then we will go to the village of Byngi, where we will enter the temple, which did not stop working during the Soviet years. Then we will go to Nizhny Tavolgi, where we will visit a pottery workshop and learn how to create simple products from clay. From here we will return to Nevyansk, where we will go to the House of Neviyansk icon to enjoy the masterpieces of iconography, which is several hundred years old. And finally we'll see the Alexander Nevsky Temple in Shural.
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    Nizhny Tagil

    3.9 mi
    15 min
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    08:5010 min

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    50 min
    Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker
    09:5030 min

    Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker

    Church
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    Old Believers used to live in Bynhy. Many things have been preserved here from tsarist times: old huts, the surrounding landscape and churches.
    In Bynhy there are two churches: St. Nicholas and St. Kazan. The last one was laid in 1789, consecrated in 1797, and since then it has never been closed.
    Inside Nikolskaya church the icon decoration was kept. During the Soviet times it was not plundered. The abundance of a cast iron in the church is unusual. The cast-iron plates covered the floor and stairs. The church is unusual for the presence of chimes on the bell tower.
    Not far from the Nicholas church in Lenin street remained carved wooden houses of the second half of the XIX and early XX centuries.
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    5.7 mi
    15 min
    Tavolozhskaya ceramics
    10:501 hr 30 min

    Tavolozhskaya ceramics

    Warehouse Store
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    The villages Verhnie and Nizhnie Tavolgi are rich in red clay deposits, which were discovered here at the end of the 18th century. In Soviet times, the Nevyansk ceramics factory operated here.
    Now the "Tavolzhskaya ceramics" and the Maslikov family operate here.
    They both produce pottery, talk about their craft and hold master classes on making and painting ceramics.
    Pre-registration is required to participate in the workshops through the websites mentioned above.
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    15 min
    Crystal Cellar Café.
    12:3545 min

    Crystal Cellar Café.

    Café
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    We'll have lunch at a cafe at the ceramics workshop. There is a good selection of salads, soups, pies, dumplings.
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    8.7 mi
    20 min
    Nevyanskaya Tower
    13:401 hr

    Nevyanskaya Tower

    Historic Site
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    Next we're going to Nevyansk. Here is the famous sloping tower. It is shrouded in many legends. It is not known exactly in what year it was built, who its architect is and why it is inclined.
    According to one of the hypotheses, the soil under the tower began to subsidize during construction, and the construction sloped. Different angles of slope on the ground floor and the top floor of the tower point to that.
    The inside of the tower can only be accessed on a guided tour. There you will visit the listening room, climb the tower bell tower, see the chime mechanism and watch a theatrical performance.
    You can sign up for the tour at site of the Nevian Historical and Architectural Museum. It is better to make an appointment in advance, especially if you go on weekends. The tower is open to you daily from 9 to 19, on Wednesdays from 9 to 20.
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    5 min
    Museum "House of the Nevyansk Icon"
    15:201 hr

    Museum "House of the Nevyansk Icon"

    Museum
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    In the XVIII-XIX centuries, many Old Believers lived in Nevyansk and its surroundings. This owes to the birth of the Nevyansk Old Believers' icons.
    Now many of its samples are exhibited in the House of Nevyansk icons. The museum works at the icon painting studio, whose works can be seen in Ekaterinburg temples, in other Russian cities and even abroad.
    The museum has a collection of more than 300 icons. Here you can see exhibits that are several centuries old, as well as modern icons.
    You can order a tour through Vkontakte group. Monday is a day off.
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    5.5 mi
    15 min
    Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
    16:3530 min

    Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    Temple
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    You can see the temple of Alexander Nevsky from afar. It stands in Shural on a small hill. The temple is rather young: it was laid in 1906.
    The wasteland around the temple used to have a cemetery. Now only rare ancient marble tombstones remind us of it.
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    37.1 mi
    1 hr
    18:50

    Nizhny Tagil

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