Ytyk-Kyuel Literary and Art Museum-Reserve 'Taatta'

About museum

Ytyk-Kyuel Museum-Reserve 'Taatta' is a unique literary and art museum in the territory of Yakutia. It was founded by the writer Dmitry Kononovich Sivtsev — Suorun Omolloon with the aim of perpetuating the memory of statesmen, classics of Yakut literature, and figures of art of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The museum has a rich collection of ancient monuments of the traditional wooden architecture of the Sakha people. It is accessible to visitors in the picturesque landscapes along the Taatta River. This site is included in the state register of cultural heritage sites of the peoples of the Russian Federation of republican significance. The center of the museum-reserve is the Transfiguration Church, which is considered a source of enlightenment and clergy in the ulus. The cultural world and the economic way of life of the late 19th — early 20th century have been recreated on its territory.