The Yekaterinburg Stones

Depart from Yekaterinburg to Perm, the pointer turn to Pervouralsk drive Bilimbai. Then follow the signs to the village Chusovoy. The road is good. The village and its surroundings can drive up to the stones at the car or walk peshkomChusovoe – picturesque village, located on the banks of the river Chusovoi. Birthday of the village is September 1, 1727, when Staroshaytansky ironworks Demidova issued the first heat, while sawing workshops were laid there in the 1721 Village Chusovoi like artists, the first landscapes of the surrounding villages have been drawn back to Soviet times. Now forms the village Chusovoy on the canvases have more than one generation of artists went, left for throughout Russia. Painters and craftsmen working with pictures of stone, constantly live in Chusovoy or come here to work.

For the beginners in the village has a fixed base, housed in a former school. Now, here at plein-air painters of the future come not only from Yekaterinburg, but also from other Russian cities. In 1958 at the initiative of drawing teacher Mary Victorovna Mezeninoy here in the Soviet Union opened the first rural art gallery. Today, about 300 works of original art are kept in the Urals village school. To enjoy the spectacular views of the river near the village of Chusovoi, start with the stone ships with it is visible bend of the river, along which lies a village. Over the wooden bridge hung stone fighter Shaitan (Satan on the second Chusovoi). After crossing a wooden bridge, climb to the powerful rock Mosin. In good weather a walk would be easy.

Then go to located in the end of the village Elijah hill – a favorite place of local residents, artists and tourists. At its bare top is a small gazebo. On the left bank of the river can go down to the small stones Kameshok, fir, and Bull, or drive to the Black stones, to stones Pegushi from which open up new amazing scenery. The tour spends komaniya Real Russian Expedition