Cherkeh Historical and Memorial Museum 'Yakut Political Exile'

About museum

In the village of Cherkeh, Alekseyevsky District, Yakut ASSR, on the initiative of the people's writer D. K. Sivtsev — Suorun Omollon, the historical and memorial museum 'Yakut Political Exile' was established. As a result of skillful mobilization of public activity and a high level of awareness and cultural development among labor collectives, the museum was opened on November 2, 1977. It was created to present the life and activities of participants in Russia's revolutionary movement who served tsarist exile in the 1880s–1890s in the Yakut region. On the museum grounds there are memorial yurts reconstructed as replicas, as well as unique historical and architectural monuments of the 19th–20th centuries. The museum features 20 objects, including the Tattinsky St. Nicholas Church, built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since 1979 it has been a branch of the Yakut State United Museum named after Em. Yaroslavsky.