Open Air Museum: Masterpieces of Wooden Architecture

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The Historical and Architectural Open-Air Museum appeared a few kilometers away from Akademgorodok thanks to a scientific expedition. In 1969, a group of scientists led by Balandin found a wooden Church of the Holy Savior’s Image of 1700 in an abandoned village of Zashiversk in the north of Yakutia. When trying to clear up its history, it got about that the Cossacks, who were dealing in furs, founded a settlement on the banks of Indigirka River in 1639, but it emptied by the mid-19th century. In 1970, scientists dismantled the church manually and brought it to Novosibirsk.

The church, unique by its preservation, became the first exhibit of the Historical and Architectural Open-Air Museum. It opened in 1981 upon obtaining its own territory, where currently you can see the towers of the XVIII century Kazym stockade, a peasant farm with a windmill and a bath "in-black" (with an open hearth). In addition to the Russian architecture, here you can see the kuala of the Mansi people and the Buryat yurt. There is also a collection of stone sculptures, some of which belong to the Paleolithic era. A separate area contains the tools of ancient hunters. Tours of the museum are held only in the warm season: from June to the late September.

Open Air Museum: Masterpieces of Wooden Architecture

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