The village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha in Sverdlovsk region is famous for its unique wooden architectural complex. The village was founded in 1680. This is one of the oldest Russian villages in the Urals. In the 1970s, its resident Ivan Danilovich Samoylov turned on the heat to gather the monuments of wooden Russian architecture, scattered throughout the Urals, in his motherland.
Samoylov personally traveled to his native land and was able to transfer the most interesting buildings to Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha. Old wooden houses were disassembled on-site, transported and re-mounted in Sinyachikha. Thus, the enthusiast, together with like-minded people, managed to gather dozens of buildings, which can now be seen in one place! Samoylov also preserved thousands of rarities, describing the life of the Urals’ residents of the past centuries. Another attraction of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha is the Church of the Holy Transfiguration. Its construction was funded by the known industrialists Yakovlev. Built in the "Siberian baroque" style, this temple always strikes the eye.