The first stone-cutting artel appeared in Kungur in 1932. Craftsmen created small souvenirs from plaster stone: animal figurines, powder boxes, boxes, brooches, photo frames. Four years later, a stone-cutting art school was opened, and in 1943 — a vocational school No. 58, where Ramilya Fazleeva studied.

 
Ramilya Fazleeva created composition ‘Crow’ in 2015. The artist processed only part of the surface, while the main sculptured volume remained in the form of the rough natural stone. Using this technique, Fazleeva emphasized the contrasting combination of textures — a shiny polished surface and a matte carved part.

 
On the left flat part of the stone, the artist carved a landscape — a part of the roof with a birdhouse with the silhouette of a bird. Geometric branches of bare trees rise above the roof. On the right is a large bird head with a powerful beak, small eye, long legs and a small wing. The crow’s disproportionately large body seems to be squeezed into a narrow space.

 
Ramilya Fazleeva lives and works in the city of Yanaul in the north of Bashkiria. She studied at the stone carving department of the Kungur Art and Technical School No. 58. She worked at the ‘Uralskiy Kamenerez’ Combine of the Gorno-Irensky area in the village of Krasny Yasyl, Perm Region. After returning to her hometown in the early 1990s, Fazleeva continued to work in stone and create sculptures in the style of the Kungur art craft.