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WINDMILL. 19th century. From village Shikhari.
The windmill is a rare sample of Russian wooden architecture of the first half nineteenth century,
it is last in the Perm area a windmill, it simultaneously is a monument to a history of agricultural
production. The rich peasant K. Rakhmanov has constructed it and has transmitted by right
of succession to children and grandsons. Per the first years of the Soviet authority the mill
has passed in the property of collective farm " the Red fighter ".
The mill with a tent and rotated head part, is cut " in a paw " by an octahedron from ground.
Movement of a windmill the systems of cog-wheels, stander and sprockets with pins are
transmitted on a mill stone with the help of.
Sizes of the greatest edge in the basis of 3,35 meters, height of a wooden construction of 8,5 meters.
It has received the exotic title "shatrovka" due to a construction of the basis: octahedral log
the construction cut without residual, " in a paw ", reminds completion of northern cult constructions
with a tent.

The complicated construction of a mill was fulfilled, was sharpened by centuries.
As the known Soviet architect A has told. Opolobnikov, ancient windmills - " it is treasure
of country wisdom and sharpness ", ring of a country engineering think. As the wind frequently
changed the direction, the village foremans have invented the special construction of a roof - head a part.
It together with wings could be turned in the necessary party in relation to a wind, about the axis. "
Twirled a roof " with the help of of special crandle - trunk.
The movement of wings was transmitted on a mill stone - heart of a mill under
a pressure of a wind through complicated systems of cog-wheels and vertical shaft.
In a 1977 the mill is transported from village Shikhari on territory of a museum.
The architect G. Katcko is the author of the project of restoration.
The works on restoration of a mill passed in 1977-1978 years under the project of the employee
of restoration workshops A. Fedotov and engineer V. Korobeynik. The exhibition
" Manual processing of a grain of the peasants of the Perm area of an extremity of a 19th-beginning 20th of
centuries. " (author L. Semenova, artist J. Novinkov) is open in a mill on the second
circle. It tells about production of a flour in pre-revolutionary time. The exhibition thematically
is connected to an interior created in TRESHING-FLOOR WITH BARN FOR DRYING CROPS from village Oshib.

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