Уникальные изделия из камня. Камнерезное искусство Урала в Музее изобр. искусств г.Екатеринбурга.

We'll visit the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts for an exhibition of stone-cutting art. You'll see remarkable stone pieces, worthy of the Fabergé workshop, made by Ural artisans. Ural stone carving is one of the traditional Russian folk crafts, originating in the Urals in the 17th century and still flourishing today. Stone carving is practiced throughout the Urals, but is especially widespread in the Middle Urals. The main centers of stone-cutting art are Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Magnitogorsk, Novouralsk, Kungur, Berezovsky, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Alapayevsk, Verkhnyaya Salda, Chusovoy, Lysva, Asbest, Verkhny Ufaley, and Zarechny. The village of Murzinka is also famous for its stone-cutting art. In addition, due to the popularity of these products, almost every city in the Urals has at least one craft workshop where stone-cutting masters work.