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At present time unique collection includes more than 10
thous. exhibits. There are 1000 agates of Chukotka (the most complete
gathering), minerals of excelent beauty from whole USSR and many regions
of the world. The collection was first exhibited in Munkhen (1988) and
later in Vienna, Dortmund, Gamburg, Denver (1989), London (1993) and
Athens (1994).
Besides minerals the collection represents the products
of stone made by Urals masters: Anatoly Ovchinnikov, Aleksei
Antonov, Anatoly Zhukov, Jury Polovnikov, Viacheslav Obolensky. Their
works of crystal and precious stones are of equal or better quality than
masterpieces of Faberge firm. By the way, the collection includes about
100 works by Jury Bakhtin made of mammoth tusk and Eugene Onishenko
(faith imagery). |
