Sysert: Bazhov and the factory pond

⏱ 7 h 30 min🚶 5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 5 stops

🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

An hour on the bus to the small factory town where Bazhov was born: his house museum, a square with characters from his tales, a view of the pond and the old ironworks museum. Lunch at a restaurant with Sysert dishes.

🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town

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Getting there

🏛 Southern Bus Station

ул. 8 Марта, 145

≈10 minutes on foot from Botanicheskaya metro. Tickets at the ticket office or from the driver.

🚌 by bus to Sysert Bus Station

bus from the Southern Bus Station to Sysert bus station: at 09:01 or 09:55, ≈1 h 10 min; buses almost every hour from 7:00

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🏛 Sysert Bus Station
ул. Ленина, 66, Сысерть
The bus station on Lenina Street: buses from Yekaterinburg’s Southern Bus Station arrive here.
From the bus station to the house museum is ≈20 minutes along Lenina and Volodarskogo.
🚶 on foot
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🖼 Bazhov House Museum in Sysert
ул. Володарского, 16, Сысерть
🎟 ticket
A small wooden house on a quiet street, linked to the childhood of the author of “The Malachite Casket”: his tales, the life of a factory family and the characters of the tales.
Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00. Nearby is the square with the Mistress of the Copper Mountain and Silver Hoof, and across the road is Chainy Dom if you need to warm up.
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© Владимир Саппинен · CC BY 3.0
© Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pavel Bazhov was born in Sysert in 1879.
- The house museum is a branch of the United Museum of Ural Writers.
- Near the town centre is a garden square with figures of characters from the tales: the Mistress of the Copper Mountain and Silver Hoof.
🚶 on foot
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🌅 Viewpoint over the Sysert Pond
ул. Быкова, Сысерть
A view of the factory pond, the dam and the old ironworks from a hill on Bykova Street — the best spot in Sysert.
A view of the pond and the dam — the best place for photos. It’s chilly here in the wind, and at the end of October there may be the first snow.
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© Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
© Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sysert grew up in 1732 around an ironworks founded on the orders of Georg Wilhelm de Hennin.
- The pond is a factory pond: it was created by a dam on the Sysert River.
- Until 1912 the ironworks belonged to the Turchaninov-Solomirsky dynasty.
- During Pugachev’s Rebellion the ironworks fought off Ivan Beloborodov’s detachment.
🚶 on foot
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🖼 Sysert Ironworks Museum
ул. Быкова, 29/4, Сысерть
🎟 ticket
A museum on the grounds of the old ironworks: the history of the Sysert works and tours of the site.
The museum on the grounds of the old ironworks, Wednesday to Sunday from 12:00.
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© Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
🚶 on foot
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🍽 Smirnov restaurant
Красноармейская ул., 4, Сысерть
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Lunch: mushroom caviar, wild muksun (a Siberian whitefish), “karasiki” pirozhki.
🍴 A restaurant in the old centre of Sysert, with dishes named after local things. What to order: mushroom caviar, the “Autumn in Sysert” salad, wild muksun (a Siberian whitefish), “karasiki” pirozhki.

↩️ Getting back: ≈20 minutes on foot to the bus station; buses to the Southern Bus Station run all day until the evening, ≈1 h 10 min. Check the time of the return bus at the bus station ticket office (open until 21:00)