The paper examines development features of the church sculpture in the Yenisei region in terms of exploring Siberian territories within the XVII–XIX centuries. The authors study historical, cultural and artistic processes of setting up centers for production of wooden carved icons and sculptures. In the present paper the authors provide the artistic analysis of the central compositions with the crucifi x from Krasnoyarsk’s permanent museum exposition. As a result of comparing the samples made by the Yenisei and Krasnoyarsk craftsmen, the sources of the complex interaction of traditions, the specifi city of artistic approaches and styles used in regional schools of carving are revealed. In general, it is determined that the Yenisei Orthodox sculpture based on handicraft creativity made a signifi cant contribution to the formation of the artistic worldview, the local professional creativity and an overall view of the national art development. 

Keywords: Siberian exploration; Siberian art; regional creativity; temple wood sculpture; carved icon.

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