Day Schedule

➤Breakfast

➤Nevyansk and Kunara tour

➤Pottery master-class

➤Transfer to the train station

➤Departure for Krasnoyarsk

Nevyansk was founded in 1700 due to the construction of a foundry and iron factory. Although it was not granted town status until 1919, it became highly important for the well-being of the Demidov family, which extracted gold from the local foothills. In the 18th century, Nevyansk was settled primarily by Old Believers, who commissioned from local artisans some glimmering, stylish icons which may be regarded as the last phase in the history of Russian icon-painting. As for the Demidovs, they commissioned the 60-meter (200 ft) high Leaning Tower of Nevyansk, which was erected sometime between 1725 and 1740 and remains the town's principal landmark and claim to fame.

Kirillov's house is a prominent naïve decorative building located in the village Kunara. The building is a private residential home constructed between 1954 and 1967 by Sergey Kirillov, a blacksmith of the village. The structure combines the outlines of a traditional Russian decorative house (terem) with rich colorful ornaments and visual elements suggestive of fairy tales, children art and Soviet propaganda imagery.