Initiative (1982)

Photos by the director of the Nizhne-Sinyachikhinsky Museum of Folk Art I.D. Samoilov.

Photograph of a dilapidated Orthodox church.

Samoilov walks along the river bank, a truck drives behind him, Samoilov’s story about his work and the creation of the museum is heard off-screen (synchronously).

Panorama of the river bound by ice, Samoilov walks along the river bank.

View of the central part of the Orthodox church, which houses the Museum of Ural Folk Art.

Samoilov enters the museum, a sign with the name of the museum.

Wooden walls, shutters, chests painted by folk artists and exhibited in the museum.

Samoilov and his wife talk about their work on collecting and saving exhibits for the museum (synchronously).

Samoilov and his wife examine samples of ancient folk embroidery.

Samoilov helps wash the floors in the museum.

Samoilov and his wife walk to the exit through the museum hall.

The Samoilovs walk home along the evening street.

Portraits of Samoilov’s wife in her youth.

Samoilov knocks on the window pane from the street.

Samoilov greets the owner of the house who opened the door and negotiates the purchase of her hut for the museum (synchronously).

Samoilov talks about collecting exhibits for the museum (synchronously).

Small church bells on display in the museum.

Panorama of one of the museum halls, exhibits in display cases.

Samoilov restores frescoes and icons.

Frescoes on the wall of the church in which the museum is located.

Faces of saints on icons and frescoes.

Samoilov restores one of the icons.

Fragments of folk painting on wood.

Photographs of Samoilov during the opening of the museum on September 16, 1978, with Samoilov’s story about the opening of the museum heard in the background (synchronously).

View of the church building in which the museum is located.

Samoilov conducts a tour with schoolchildren.

Samoilov talks with one of the local leaders.

The face of Samoilov inviting visitors to enter the museum.

Examples of folk painting on display in the museum.

Visitors in one of the museum halls.

Samoilov tells visitors about the exhibits, examples of folk painting, presented in the museum (synchronously).

Interiors of living quarters in merchants' houses and peasant huts, recreated in the museum halls.

Examples of folk embroidery and fragments of painting in the museum exposition.

Samoilov sits on a chair by the wall in one of the museum halls.

View of the upper part of the temple.

Performance of the children's choir, the face of the young soloist.

Samoilov's face.

View of the dome of the temple from the inside.

Views of the building of the temple, where the museum is located, and the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha.