Bystrinsky District Ethnographic Museum
About museum
\n\nThe Bystrinsky Museum is the only ethnographic museum in Kamchatka, founded in 1982 in the center of the village of Esso, on the bank of the Uksichan River. The museum grounds include an architectural complex of a Cossack ostrog, a prikaznaya izba (official's log house), a defensive tower, a small barn for storing household items and horse harness, an exhibition hall building, a 19th-century Koryak semi-subterranean dwelling and a Koryak labaz (storage scaffold). In addition, on the museum grounds you can see a composition of wooden carved sculptures on mythological themes of Kamchatka's indigenous peoples.