Lower Sinyachikha

It is located northeast of Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil and 12 km north of the city of Alapaevsk (13 km along the highway), mainly on the right bank of the Sinyachikha River, 1 km above its mouth. On the banks of the river within the village there are several rocky exits, on one of the rocks is the Orthodox chapel of Alexander Nevsky.

The village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha was founded in 1680 next to the busy sovereign road connecting the European part of Russia and Siberia . In memory of the old Siberian tract, now on the museum section of the road, milestones and a guardhouse have been installed.

Nizhniy Sinyachikhinsky Plant

In the village there is an open-air museum complex Nizhne-Sinyachikhinsky Museum-Reserve of Wooden Architecture and Folk Art named after I. D. Samoilov , which includes one Orthodox church, five Orthodox chapels, several peasant house-museums and ancient technical structures.

In the village there is a club (culture center), a secondary school, a kindergarten, a children's center “Fakel”, a local hospital, a post office and several shops.

• CJSC Rosmetimpex,
• PPO "Alapaevskagropromchemistry",
• LLC Agrovtormet.

Since the village is a popular tourist center, you can get to it by tourist buses from most cities of the Sverdlovsk region . There is also a shuttle bus from the city of Alapaevsk .

In the village there is a unique open-air museum Nizhne-Sinyachikhinsky Museum-Reserve of wooden architecture and folk art . It presents various styles of traditional Russian architecture from all over the Urals , including wooden huts, churches, jail towers and mills.

Transfiguration Cathedral

In 1794, in the Lower Sinyachikha, by decree of S. Yakovlev, a representative of a large Ural industrial dynasty, the construction of the grandiose Transfiguration Cathedral began , which was consecrated in 1823. According to local legend, the church was built by an Italian, however, according to experts, the temple was built by a Tobolsk architect, since the Transfiguration of the Savior church is the only example of Siberian baroque in the Urals.

Since the late 1960s, after many years of desolation, thanks to the efforts of I. D. Samoilov, the restoration of the shrine began. After the reconstruction was completed, on the second floor of the building, Ivan Danilovich organized an unprecedented museum of Ural folk painting in our country, which is distinguished by original motifs and monumentality. In the Middle Urals, not only small objects were painted, but entire interiors of houses. In the early 1980s, near the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Church, the forces of I. D. Samoilov began the creation of a museum of wooden architecture.

According to the book “Rezhevsky treasures”, I. D. Samoilov was born in the village of Isakovo , on the river Rezh . In these places, he collected most of his famous collection of objects of wooden architecture and peasant folk painting.

Farmsteads

The museum of wooden architecture presents manors of the XVII-XIX centuries. They allow you to follow how over time the architecture, design, decor, layout of the residential complex of the Ural village changed. The hut of the XVII century is practically devoid of jewelry. The building is completed by a huge gable roof with a skate ascended to the sky, the main decorative element and a charm of the house.

In the XVIII century, the facade of the hut receives more decorations. The windows are wider, with two shutters, more decorations appear.

A real revolution in the architecture of the peasant dwelling takes place in the 19th century: the size of the house increases, the layout becomes more complicated, the building’s facade and outbuildings receive an abundance of carved decorations. The interior of the house is painted with fabulous paintings.

Chapels

The pride of the museum of wooden architecture is five chapels, in the past such buildings were erected not only in villages (a distinctive feature of which was the presence of a church), but also in many villages of the Middle Urals :

• Chapel of Zosima and Savvaty,
• Chapel of Elijah the Prophet,
• Ascension Chapel
• Chapel of Alexander Nevsky,
• Spasskaya chapel.

Public Architecture

A unique monument of fortification architecture in the Urals is the tower of Aramashevsky prison. In the XVII century, when the first Russian settlers in the Middle Urals settled near the border with nomads, wooden fortresses were built to protect the surrounding villages. The most characteristic detail of the Ural settlements was the fire building. In factory villages, higher structures were installed to monitor fire safety. Often they were built over office buildings. Sometimes they were built as independent buildings, like a museum watchtower.

An interesting architectural monument is a windmill. More often, water mills were installed in the Middle Urals , but windmills were built in villages and villages along the banks of large rivers.

A two-story six-story house at one time was the central element of the whole complex (customs, huts, barns, stables, etc.), which were built along the Siberian Highway, connecting Central Russia and Siberia .

Gallery

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  Watchtower on the background of the Transfiguration Church

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  Panorama of the Museum of Lower Sinyachikha

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  Panorama of the Nizhny Sinyachikhinsky Museum-Reserve of Wooden Architecture

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  Watch tower

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  Chapels of Zosima and Savvaty and Ascension

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  Fire Station Watchtower

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  Windmill

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  Wooden fire station

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  Customs building

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  Old forge

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  Barn from the village of Popovo

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  File: Chapel of Elijah the Prophet in the cemetery

• Samoilov I. D. Treasures of the Lower Sinyachikha
• Lower Sinyachikha. Museum-reserve of wooden architecture. Publishing House “Kid and Carlson”, Rezh
• Rychkov A.V. 12 Travels in the Middle Urals. - Kid and Carlson, 2008 .-- 50 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9900756-1-0 .
• Rezhevsky treasures. - Ural University, 2004. - 40 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 5-7996-0213-7 .

• Lower Sinyachikha - Museum of Wooden Architecture (photos)
• Brief information about the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha
• An article about the museum in Lower Sinyachikha
• Brief information about the Museum of Lower Sinyachikha
• The page of the museum-reserve of wooden architecture in Lower Sinyachikha on the tourist portal
• Transfiguration Church in 3d
• List of cultural heritage sites of Lower Sinyachikha in Wikigid