Druzhba Museum (Sottintsy)
Историко-этнографический музей «Дружба» (Соттинцы)
An open-air wooden architecture museum on the right bank of the Lena River, recreating a 17th-century Cossack fort tower, a church and traditional Yakut dwellings.
The museum is in Sottintsy village on the right bank of the Lena River. It is the largest open-air ethnographic architecture museum in Yakutia. It has relocated and reconstructed Cossack-era wooden fort towers and a wooden church, together with traditional Yakut winter houses, summer tents, stables and burial structures. It also presents the history of Russians entering Yakutia in the 17th century. The museum is about 50 km in a straight line from Yakutsk, and reaching it requires crossing the Lena River: a ferry in summer and an ice road in winter. It is usually visited as a day trip by chartered car or tour. The coordinates refer to the village location.
Opening hours
Mainly open in summer; confirm in advance
Nearby sights
- Us Khatyn (Ysyakh Festival Grounds)
- Yaroslavsky Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North
- Old Town Yakutsk
- Treasury of the Sakha Republic
- Transfiguration Cathedral
- Lenin Square
- National Art Museum of the Sakha Republic
- Museum of Khomus