Exhibition “Native Home: Bashkir Yurt and Russian Izba”

About exhibition

The exhibition tells about the everyday life of a Russian village in the Urals in the 19th–early 20th centuries and about the main occupations of village residents of that time, illustrated by antique agricultural tools and the interior of a traditional izba with an authentic stove and polati (built-in sleeping platforms). It also presents the daily life of Bashkir nomadic herders, which differed markedly from that of their sedentary neighbors. Children and adults can enter a full‑scale Bashkir yurt and learn about its construction, history, economy, and family traditions.