Yakut State United Museum of the History and Culture of the Peoples of the North named after E.M. Yaroslavsky

About museum

(Yakutia) named after A.A. Strelnikov. The Yakut State United Museum of the History and Culture of the Peoples of the North named after E.M. Yaroslavsky was founded in 1887. It is the oldest museum of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Far East and Siberia. The museum is one of the largest museums in the northeast of Russia and possesses an excellent collection of monuments of the history and culture of the peoples of Yakutia. The museum's research activities are organized taking into account its specific character. It is widely known as a center of cultural and educational activity. The museum has established close ties with museums in Russia and abroad, as well as with international museum organizations. It actively participates in international projects and exhibitions, and also publishes its research in scientific collections and journals. In addition, the museum has seven branches. Currently the museum director is N. D. Bugaev.

Museum features

Founding date
1887 год
Founder
A.I. Popov (1858-?)
Посетители
96750
Units
84852
Budget status
Subject of the Russian Federation
Классификация организации
non-profit institution
Предметы музея
Collection of Yakut silver, 18th - early 21st centuries - 621 inventory items. Collection of works by Yakut masters made of mammoth and walrus ivory, late 19th - early 21st centuries - 558 inventory items. Collection of Yakut ritual tableware, 18th - early 21st centuries - 250 inventory items. Collection of V.N. Vasiliev — head of the Tungus ethnographic detachment of the USSR Academy of Sciences expedition in 1925–1927 in the Aldan-Maysky district of the YASSR — 198 inventory items. Collections of I.S. Gurvich, head of the Olenek-Dzhelindin ethnographic expedition of the Research Institute of Language and Literature of the YASSR in the Olenek district in 1944–1945 and of the ethnographic group of the Kolyma expedition of the Yakut branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Kolyma district — 104 inventory items. Collection of Yakut horse trappings — 65 inventory items. Collection of photographs of old Yakutsk by photographers V.P. Priyutov (102 inventory items), I. Bratchikov (35), V.S. Kellerman (20) late 19th - early 20th centuries. Osteological collection — 446 inventory items. Paintings of the first professional artist of Yakutia I.V. Popov (paintings - 21 inventory items, drawings - 92 inventory items), and paintings of the well-known local historian and artist-ethnographer M.M. Nosov (paintings - 21, drawings - 38). Collection of items from the equipment of the yacht 'Zarya' of the Russian Polar Expedition (1900–1902) under the leadership of Baron E.V. Toll — 13 inventory items. Most interesting collection items
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Yakut State United Museum of the History and Culture of the Peoples of the North named after E.M. Yaroslavsky
г Якутск, пр-кт Ленина, д 5/2
г Якутск, пр-кт Ленина, д 5/2
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