Museum of the Friendship of Peoples named after K.D. Utkin

About museum

On June 16, 1974, the Nurbinsky State Museum of the Friendship of Peoples was opened, created under the leadership of K. Utkin, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, professor and Honored Worker of Culture of Russia. The museum's purpose is to reveal the mutual influence of the material and spiritual cultures of the Russian and Yakut peoples, as well as to study the role of the Russian peasants of the villages Antonovka, Aleksandrovka and Ammosovka in agriculture in the ulus. During its existence, the museum carried out exploratory work at the Nakyn diamond deposit and also opened an art gallery. Today the museum and its branches' collections total 16,040 items, of which 10,267 are main holdings. On September 26, 2020, the museum's renovated permanent exhibition was opened.