For many centuries the inhabitants of Kovrovsky district have been engaged in various crafts. The peasants of Velikovskaya area, villages Lezhnevo, Golishevo, Rogozino, Andreevo were engaged in a ceramic craft. Using gray and red clay, they made bricks, utensils, and also clay toys. They used to sell them at markets, fairs and on spring tenders, where the people on celebratory feat was flown down: "Svistunia" or "Svistoplaska" - holiday of spring and god of the Sun Yarilo. There are various versions about existence of Kovrovskaya "svistunya". Any figure - horseman, horse, ram, duck, cow, lady in a hat and a galant in the cylinder - could turn into an amusing shrill whistle. Besides, the entire stories, play-scripts used to be made up and enacted in clay in Kovrovo. Each toy is an alive particle of mass collective creativity, pleasant and popular. In national creativity the art is closely connected to craft. The stronger is the craft basis, the higher is the master's skill, the higher art value represents a man-made product.

Distinctive feature Kovrov toy is rich decor on products, the beauty, and variety of plots, kind humour.

Toys

    Ceramic toy
    Textile toy
    Tin soldiers
    Wooden toy
        Aist
        Author's
        Bird - amulet [ 1 ]
        Bogorodskaya
        Klymo toy
        Magnet
        Nutcracker
        Nv
        Pl
        R-n
        Semyonovskaya
        Soldiers
        Stepanov
        The Pipes
        Tomic
        Tverskaya
        Vern
        Vl