Museum "Taltsy" – a unique collection of monuments of history, architecture and Ethnography of XVII-XIX centuries

In the Taltsy Museum you can see the decoration of Evenki and Tofalar camps, Buryat yurts, admire Angar-Ilimsk wooden temples, enter the hospitable houses of the Volost village.

The construction of the museum began in 1970, the entrance for visitors was opened ten years later. The museum is a reconstructed village of 67 hectares, in which there are architectural and religious buildings of the indigenous peoples of Buryatia - Tofalars, Evenks and Buryats, as well as samples of Russian architecture. The first exhibits of the museum were two architectural monuments of the 18th century: the Tower of the Saviour and the Kazanskaya chapel. In the 1960s, the buildings were threatened with being flooded during the spill of the Ust-Ilimsk reservoir. Then they decided to transport the monuments to Taltsy and organize a museum of wooden architecture there.

The museum is named after the village Taltsy, on the site of which it was built. At one time, there was even a glass factory in the village, but after the construction of the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station, it was “buried” under a layer of water. The architectural complex is based on a hill left over from the settlement.

In the Taltsy, two types of Evenki burials are presented - air and ground. The first is more ancient. The deceased was placed on two crossed pillars with a height of 2-3 meters. The Evenks believed that their brother was not dead, but continues to live in the afterlife, where he deals with the usual things for his earthly existence. Therefore, next to the burial, the Evenks left clothes, dishes and other utensils that could be useful to their loved one in a new life. Ground burials Evenki began to do after the arrival of Russian. In place of the grave, they erected a covered wooden crypt with no windows and doors.

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