Winter holidays in the Urals. Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk

Everyone knows what a “gold rush” is, first of all, thanks to the genius Jack London. But few people know that this fever started in the modest town of Berezovsky, 12 kilometers from Yekaterinburg.

Gold has been sought in Russia for centuries, but without success. On May 21, 1745, Yerofey Markov, a peasant from the village of Shartash, found “a tile, on the one hand, like gold and... There are 3 or 4 grains of the same, especially similar to gold.”

The samples were immediately tested. Gold! The very next summer, the mines built on that site marked the beginning of the gold mining industry in Russia.

The famous Ural writer P. P. Bazhov told about the rare discovery of a golden nugget by the schismatic Yerofey Sidorovich Markov in the fairy tale “Golden Dykes”.

And in 1814, the master L.I.Brusnitsyn discovered gold-bearing sands under a layer of sediment along the rivers. "Washing factories" were quickly built on them, and gold mining rates skyrocketed.

Rumors began to spread that “gold is being shoveled in Berezovsk.” Placer gold was easily mined, did not require special equipment, and was four times cheaper. The first “gold rush" began in the country.

Breakfast at the hotel (buffet).

08:45 Meeting with the guide in the lobby of the Novotel 4* hotel, Engels St., 7. Boarding the bus.

09:00 Departure to Berezovsky. Travel tour.

10:00-11:00 Visit to the Gold Museum. The Gold Museum's exposition presents professional tools and attributes of prospectors that are unique today, but widespread a hundred years ago: a bucket, a bucket, paddles, trays, cans for collecting gold dust, scales for gold, etc.

Here you can get acquainted with the maps of gold mines from the middle of the last century. The museum has a rich collection of minerals from the Berezovsky gold deposit and samples of gold-bearing rocks.

11:00-12:00 Visit to the park where the monument to Yerofey Markov is located.

12:00-14:00 Visit to the training mine. Getting to know the history of mining and the equipment of mountain rescuers. You will learn what an adit, a trench, and drifts are...

The museum has a collection of minerals that you can hold in your hands.

15:00 Return to Yekaterinburg. Free time.

Breakfast at the hotel (buffet).

09:45 Meeting with the guide in the lobby of the hotel by the Novotel 4* guide. Boarding the bus.

10:00 a.m. "Military glory of the Urals" (bus tour).

12.00 Excursion to the Museum of Military Equipment (UMMC Museum complex, Verkhnyaya Pyshma) — the largest technical museum in Russia (Inspection of the outdoor exhibition area / exposition of the Exhibition Center).

15:00 Lunch at a restaurant in Yekaterinburg. We're letting the bus go. Pedestrian crossing.

16:30 Let's touch the diversity of the man-made beauty of the Urals at the Museum of Fine Arts.

It houses Russia's largest collection of Kaslin castings, including the famous Kaslin Cast—iron Pavilion, a UNESCO heritage site.

We will admire the works of stone-cutting masters, Zlatoust steel engravings, painted Tagil trays (they are compared to Zhostovsky, but they appeared earlier), Sysert porcelain and, of course, paintings.

Breakfast at the hotel (buffet).

07:30 Meeting with a guide in the lobby of the Novotel 4* hotel.

07:45 Departure to Chelyabinsk.

11:30 a.m. Visit to the State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals. This is a real repository of the historical and cultural heritage of our region, a place where anyone can immerse themselves in the past and learn about how the “supporting edge of the state” was formed.

Lunch at a restaurant in Chelyabinsk.

14:00 Rodina Organ and Chamber Music Hall (Kirova 78). Concert tour of the Organ Hall of Chelyabinsk.

The history of the hall and the Chelyabinsk organ. Organ music. Backstage.

The guide will tell you about the history of the appearance and reconstruction of the organ and chamber music hall, the features of its architecture, the Hermann Eule Chelyabinsk organ — the features of its majestic and multi-layered sound, the mechanics of the instrument, and also show the “backstage" of the hall.

For those who find themselves in the organ hall for the first time, such meetings become a kind of preparation for listening and a deep, conscious perception of organ music.

At the end of the trip, guests will be able to hear the sound of an organ.

Sightseeing tour.

18:00 Departure to Yekaterinburg

21:00 Return to the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel (buffet). Check-out from the hotel.

08:15 Meeting with the guide in the lobby of the Novotel 4* hotel, Engels St., 7. Boarding the bus.

08:30 Departure to Nevyansk. Travel tour.

10:30 Museum of Nevyansk meanings “Podvintsev Manor".

The theatrical program “Angel on the Christmas tree".

Christmas, New Year, the aroma of pies and fir needles in the hotly heated living room of the Estate of G.E. Podvintsev... And, of course, the expectation of a Miracle.

We will talk about how Christmas was celebrated in Russia, how the Christmas tree was felled, and find out what a miracle kindness and a loving heart can create.

We will learn how to make a pre-revolutionary Christmas tree toy with our own hands, we will drink tea with goodies and reflect on what is so special about our Ural land that it gave birth to such wonderful people.

Lunch.

15:00 Visit to the Nevyanskaya Tower. Nevyanskaya inclined tower, built on the initiative of Akinfiy Demidov in memory of the founder of the dynasty.

During the construction of the tower, the most modern architectural and technical solutions were used at that time (lightning rod, English clock, famous hearing room).

At various times, the tower served as a bell tower, a guard post, a factory archive, a laboratory, and even a prison. Today, the tower is a symbol of Nevyansk, a monument of industrial architecture.

19:00 Return to Yekaterinburg. Marins Park Hotel, 106 Chelyuskintsev St.

Completion of the program.