Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Church in Kartaly
The church was named after the former wooden church in the Poltava settlement, which is now part of the city of Kartaly. The name of the first church was associated with the Tabyn Icon of the Mother of God, as the Cossac…
Ascension Church in Karagay
The village of Karagay was founded in 1738 as a Cossack fortress as part of the Upper Yaik fortified line. At that time, a wooden church of the Ascension was built here, which was burned down by the troops of Yemelyan Pu…
Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Verkhneuralsk
The Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, built in 1870 or 1875, is a vivid example of eclecticism in the Russian-Byzantine style. Its construction was financed by the first guild merchant of Verkhneuralsk, Nikolai…
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Nikolaevka
The first mention of the village dates back to 1835, when the construction of the Nikolaevsk fortress began. Cossacks and soldiers built residential buildings, warehouses, and the stanitsa administration buildings. To pr…
Church of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica in Sime (Chelyabinsk Region)
After the establishment of the Sime ironworks in 1762, merchants Yakov Tverdyshev and Ivan Myasnikov built the Church of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica. It was erected in the church square next to the factory. There are t…
Church of the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Minyar
The city of Minyar owes its origin to an ironworking plant, which in 1788 was inherited by Irina Beketova. She decided to build a church for the workers who arrived from various provinces, such as Smolensk, Ryazan, and T…
Chelyabinsk Museum of Fine Arts
The exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts are located in two venues in the historical and administrative center of Chelyabinsk. In 1951, part of the premises of the former Yaushev Brothers' Passage was transferred to th…
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kuznetsk
The village of Kuznetsk is located 180 versts south of the diocesan and district city, on the northern shore of Lake Bolshie Iridigi, which has a circumference of up to 12 versts. To the west of the village lies Lake Mal…
Magnitogorsk Art Gallery
The Magnitogorsk Art Gallery is the only art museum in this industrial city. The idea of creating a museum of fine arts emerged in the early years of the city's existence, but the gallery was only opened half a century l…
State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals in Chelyabinsk
The State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals, which residents and visitors of Chelyabinsk often refer to as the Local History Museum, received its new name in 2016. However, the old name is still well-known. The mus…
