Initiative (1982)

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

Photo of a dilapidated Orthodox church.

Samoilov walks along the river bank, followed by a truck, behind the scenes Samoilov's story about his work, about the creation of the museum (synchronously).

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

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

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

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

Samoilov and his wife talk about their activities to collect and save exhibits for the museum (synchronously).

Samoilov and his wife examine samples of ancient folk embroidery.

Samoilov helps to clean the floors in the museum.

Samoilov and his wife go to the exit through the hall of the museum.

The Samoylovs are walking 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 hostess of the house, who opened the door, negotiates the purchase of her hut for the museum (synchronously).

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

Small church bells are on display in the museum.

Panorama of one of the halls of the museum, the exhibits in the windows.

Samoilov carries out the restoration of frescoes and icons.

Frescoes on the wall of the temple where the museum is located.

The faces of saints on icons and frescoes.

Samoilov is restoring one of the icons.

Fragments of folk painting on wood.

Photos of Samoilov during the opening of the museum on September 16, 1978, Samoilov's story about the opening of the museum sounds behind the scenes, (synchronously).

View of the temple building, which houses the museum.

Samoilov conducts a tour with schoolchildren.

Samoilov talks with one of the local leaders.

The face of Samoilov, inviting visitors to enter the museum.

Samples of folk art in the museum's exposition.

Visitors in one of the halls of the museum.

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

Interiors of residential premises in the houses of merchants and peasant huts, recreated in the halls of the museum.

Samples of folk embroidery and fragments of painting in the museum's exposition.

Samoilov is sitting on a chair against the wall in one of the museum's halls.

View of the upper part of the temple.

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

Samoilov's face.

View of the dome of the temple from the inside.

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