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Alapayevsk Kamyshlov Sysert Ski resort ‘Gora Belaya’ The history of Kamyshlov is an The only porcelain In winter ‘Gora Belaya’ becomes one of the best skiing Alapayevsk, one of the old town, interesting by works in the Urals, resort holidays in Russia – either in the quality of its ski oldest metallurgical its merchants’ houses, whose exclusive faience runs, the service quality or the variety of facilities on centres of the region, which are preserved until iconostases decorate offer. You can rent cross-country skis, you can skate or dozens of churches around where the most do snowtubing, you can visit a swimming-pool or do rope- honorable industrial nowadays. The main sight the world, is a most valid building of the Middle 26 of Kamyshlov is two-floored 35 reason to visit the town of 44 climbing park. In summer there is a range of active sports Urals stands today, is Pokrovsky cathedral Sysert. You can go to the to do – carting, bicycling and paintball. You can also take inseparably connected (1821), founded in honor works with an excursion and the lifter to the top of Belaya Mountain. with the names of many of victory over Napoleon’s try your hand at painting 180 km from Ekaterinburg, 1Р-352 Highway faience pieces. You can also extend your visit with memorial great people. The elegant Trinity Church was reconstructed army. Every august the jazz festival UralTerraJazz, one of the through the settlement of Uraletz by the direction by the renowned architect M.P. Malakhov, and its burial places of industrial history – the dam and the workshop 53 top-10 most popular open-air fests in Russia, takes place in sign ‘Gora Belaya’ + 7 (3435) 48-56-19, gorabelaya.ru vaults serve as a shelter for the Romanov Princes – the Kamyshlov. complex of Sysert works, as well as one of the three museums Alapayevsk Martyrs. In the main street you can find the of Pavel Bazhov in the region. Hotel complex ‘Gora Belaya’. monument of water turbine inventor I.Safonov, and a snow- 136 km away from Ekaterinburg, 1Р-351 Highway 44 km away from Ekaterinburg, М5 Highway white mansion nearby used to be the home for the little Pokrovskiy Cathedral, 147а Engelsa Street; genius Petya Tchaikovskiy. Factory ‘Sysert porcelain’, 1 Chapayeva Street, Kamyshlovskiy Museum of Local History, 9 Gagarina +7 (34374) 6-41-60, Mon. to Sat. Ski resort ‘Volchikha’ see item 16 Tchaikovskogo Street Trinity Street, +7 (34375)2-50-40, Mon. to Fri. 9:00-17:30, 8:15-17:00; House Museum of Pavel Bazhov, 16 On one of the slopes of the highest mountain in the Church, 19; House Museum of P.I. Tchaikovskiy, Sat. 10:00-16:00 Hotel, 65 Severnaya Street, Volodarskogo Street, +7 (912)600-01-66, vicinity of Ekaterinburg is the best ski resort among those 30 Tchaikovskogo Street, +7 (34346) 3-40-72, Wed. +7 (34375) 2-43-60. +7(909)009-40-98, Mon. to Sat. 10:00-17:00 located in an hour’s drive away from the capital of the to Sun.10:00-17:00. Gorki Hotel, 29 Tokarey Street, +7 (34374) 7-40-13. Urals. The most famous of its attractions is the snow park, where large-scale competitions in snow-boarding types of Aramashevo Krasnoturyinsk Turinsk disciplines are held on an annual basis. Volchikha does not The ancient out post ‘Miniature Leningrad’ is the only offer four ski runs and snowtubing, it invites tourists Romanesque-style central square This multi-faceted that used to protect of V.I. Lenin, with street lines town unites the past of to try out unusual entertainments, such as a zorb descent these lands from the sprawling in different directions, the ‘Siberian dungeon’, and a ‘free fall’ with a landing on an air cushion. raids of nomads can with magnificent Empire buildings, the present of the Ural pedestrian Mira Boulevard with the 40 km from Ekaterinburg, 1Р-242 Rezhevskoy 54 easily be seen from afar Chapel of John the Apostle. The matryoshka and the future Highway, take a turn before the town of Revda, with its Saint Kazan 27 architectural development of the of a thermal resort. Its 45 following the direction sign ‘Ski resort ‘Volchikha’ city in post-war times was carried Church on the rock fist facet can viewed in +7-912-260-06-00, volchixa.ru see item 23. Church Stone. Opposite out by the designs of Leningrad architects. Krasnoturyinsk itself the House Museum of the church is a religious brought radio inventor A.S. Popov Decembrists and in the place of pagan worship and a cliff with a tell-tale name to the world, and today you can visit Park of Decembrists. You can listen to a lecture on the Ski resort ‘Aist’ Shaitan Kamen (Satan’s Stone). Of great interest is the a memorial museum dedicated to 36 traditions of Turinsk wooden painting in the Arts Centre, and The main pride of the sports centre in Dolgaya the man. museum, located inside the building of the 19th-century if you are willing to have a SPA seance, you can go to the Mountain is a modern ski jump complex, which has been school, and the museum complex ‘log cabins with Ural 395 km away from thermal resort ‘Aquarel’, see item 61. included in the rating ‘100 best ski jumps of the world’. painting’, which is a brand of Alapayevskiy district. Ekaterinburg, 1Р-352 Highway to In 2014 four international competitions were held here. the town of Serov, 35 km to the town of Krasnoturyinsk 276 km away from Ekaterinburg, Rezhevskoy This is also a regular training place for the sportsmen of 120 km away from Ekaterinburg, Rezhevskoy Krasnoturyinsk Local History Museum, Memorial Highway through the town of Irbit House-museum of Highway through the town of Rezh to the settlement Museum of A.S. Popov, 70 Popova Street, Decembrists, 11 Revolyutsii Street, +7 (34349) 2-23-15, Children’s and Youth Sports School ‘Aist’. Those who love of Aramashevo Aramashevskiy Local History +7 (34384) 3-42-09, Tues. to Thurs. 11:00-18:00, Fri. to Tues. to Sun. 9:00-18:00; The Centre of Traditional Folk winter sports can rent mountain skis and cross-country Museum, 38 Sovetskaya Street, +7 (34346) 7-36-33, Sun. 9:00-16:00 ‘Turia’ Hotel, 21 Karla Marksa Street, Arts and Crafts, 39 Dekabristov Street, +7 (34349) 2-14-01, skis as well as shooting stands. +7(34384)4-82-80. Tues. to Fri. 9:00-16:00, Sat. 10:00-15:00 upon Tue-Fri 9:00-18:00, sat 9:00-17:00 140 km from Ekaterinburg, 1Р-352 Highway to the demand see item 15. town of Nizhniy Tagil, the eastern slope of Mountain 55 Berezovskiy Krasnoufimsk Dolgaya +7(3435)41-88-43, aist-tramplin.ru Sports and hotel complex ‘Aist’. In the homeland of the Since its foundation Pervouralsk Krasnoufimsk has Russian gold, in ‘Russian Pervouralsk is one of the largest industrial centers Ski resort ‘Ezhovaya’ Klondaik’, everything reminds of remained the centre of trade fairs and kossack of the Middle Ural. The Innovation Cultural Center, the the ‘golden’ pages of the town One of the first skiing centres in Sverdlovsk region is very traditions. You will not modern complex for ensuring the qualitative development popular among real zealots of snowy slopes. A great variety chronicles. The monument of see mining and industrial of exhibition, museum, concert, library, theater of ski runs of different complexity and seven types of lifters the discoverer of hardrock gold infrastructure here, but 37 activities, as well as various educational projects, was E. Markov stands in Historical you can see a kossack’s attract both beginners and advanced skiers to the mountain. been opened in situ of Demidovs’ iron factory in 2016. The service here matches the sports characteristics of Square, and the obelisk marks wooden house of the 18th In the neighborhood of the town there are mountain ski the place of the historical find 28 century, get acquainted 46 ‘Ezhovaya’ well: there is a restaurant called ‘Eagle Nest’ is on with the work of the land hospital of the late 19th-early 20th resorts ‘Pilnaya’, ‘Teplaya’, ‘Volchikha’. And in 5 km from the the top of the mountain, a cosy hotel not far from the ski runs (the 19th kilometer of Rezhevskoy town is situated the first stele on the line ‘Europe – Asia’. 56 Highway). There is a monument century and marvel church architecture in baroque style. and its long-standing special appeal – a free bus ride from 44 km from Ekaterinburg, highway P242 Innovation that immortalizes goldminers and also there is a renovated 238 km away from Ekaterinburg, 1Р-242 Highway Ekaterinburg to the ski resort in winter. cultural center, 18B Lenina Street, +7 (343) 288-76-54, ikc66.ru, Mon-Sun 10:00 - 21:00 Museum of Gold a couple of blocks away, where you can Krasnoufimsk Local History Museum, 42 Sovetskaya 90 km from Ekaterinburg, 1Р-352 Highway through learn everything about the yellow metal – from its physical Street, +7 (34394) 2-21-91, Tues. to Sat. 9:30-17:00; Hotel ‘Pervouralsk’, Ilyicha avenue, 28, +7 (3439) 27-09-09 Kirovgrad +7 (343) 342-04-20, ezhovaya.ural.ski properties to the way gold-bearing mines in modern Museum ‘Krasnoufimsk Land Hospital’, Svobody Hotels on the territory of the ski resort «Velvet», Berezovskiy are organized. street, 16, +7 (34394)5-09-74, mon-Fri 9:00-16:00; «Copper mountain», «Hedgehog Bungalow» Alexander Nevskiy Cathedral, 88 Mizerova Street see item 13 Museum of Gold, 4 Komunny Uktus sports complex Street, +7 (34369) 4-93-47, Wed.