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      Ganina Yama: a monastery in a pine forest

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 2 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Half a day out of town: by bus from the metro to a forest monastery by an old mine, linked to the death of the royal family. Seven wooden churches, paths among the pines and lunch in the refectory.

      🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Mashinostroiteley metro (the Peduniversitet stop)
      ул. Фронтовых Бригад, 1Б, стр. 3
      Take the exit to Frontovykh Brigad Street; the bus 223 stop is at the turnaround opposite the dispatcher’s office.
      🚌 by bus to Ganina Yama Monastery
      bus 223 from the Peduniversitet stop by Mashinostroiteley metro at 08:52 or 11:28, ≈40 min to the Monastyr (Ganina Yama) stop
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        🏛 Ganina Yama Monastery
        посёлок Шувакиш
        🆓 free entry · women — a skirt and headscarf
        A wooden monastery in a pine forest by an old mine, where the bodies of the royal family were brought in 1918. Seven churches — one for each family member who died.
        Women — a skirt and headscarf. Walk round all seven churches and open shaft No. 7. At the end of October there can be snow in the forest — you need warm, waterproof shoes.
        📖 More about the placeCollapse
        Ganina Yama Monastery
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ganina Yama Monastery
        © Artem Murugov · CC BY 3.0
        • Ganina Yama is the abandoned Iset mine in the Four Brothers area, north of Yekaterinburg.
        • It is believed that on the night of 17 July 1918 the bodies of the royal family and their servants were thrown into the mineshaft here.
        • The foundation stone of the monastery was laid on 1 October 2000.
        • The monastery has seven churches — one for each murdered member of the royal family.
        • Open shaft No. 7 survives on the grounds.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        ☕️ Ganina Yama refectory
        Верхняя Пышма
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        The refectory by the entrance: soup, pies and tea.
        🍴 The monastery canteen by the entrance: simple dishes and baking. What to order: soup, pies and tea.

      ↩️ Getting back: bus 223 from Monastyr (Ganina Yama) to Mashinostroiteley metro at 12:32, 14:49 or 16:55 (the 20:18 only goes as far as Verkhnyaya Pyshma); check times with the dispatcher: +7 34368 9-86-48

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