Exhibition 'Geology and Paleontology of the Northern Region'

About exhibition

Fossils, rocks and minerals from the museum collections are on display. Visitors can see samples of hardened lava from volcanoes that erupted here in the distant past, various ores, and the mineral resources that largely shaped the modern industry of the Northern Region. In addition to the geological collection, the exhibition features significant paleontological finds — impressive mammoth bones and tusks, various parts of Permian-period reptiles discovered more than 100 years ago by the geologist V. P. Amalitsky, and a replica of the skeleton of the first large terrestrial predator, Inostrancevia, which inhabited these parts hundreds of millions of years ago. The most unique exhibit is a huge Vendian (Ediacaran) period slab bearing imprints of entirely extinct organisms that lived on the planet more than 500 million years ago. It was extracted from the rock and studied by A. Yu. Ivantsov, a researcher at the A. A. Borisyak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the end of the last century.