Kuday Bakhsy

Yakutsk


In the old city, this is the best place in town to browse for crafts and souvenirs. You'll find mammoth tusk carvings, leather slippers, reindeer boots and gloves, embroidered dolls, Jew's harps, carved wooden bowls, paintings, knives, bizarre magnets and CDs of traditional music.


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1. Treasury of the Sakha Republic

0.04 MILES

Pay a visit to this unique museum for a look at Yakutia's rich mineral wealth combined with fine craft traditions. You'll see exquisite carvings in…

2. Transfiguration Church

0.13 MILES

This mid-19th-century church with gorgeous golden domes in Yakutsk's old town is the city's most attractive.

3. National Art Museum

0.14 MILES

If time is limited, don't miss this excellent museum, with Sakha-themed exhibits covering local craftmaking traditions (mammoth tusk carvings, reindeer…

4. Pyotr Beketov Monument

0.18 MILES

This rather brash gold-plated pillar in the old town honours Cossack explorer and founder of Yakutsk, Pyotr Beketov.

5. Lenin Statue

0.23 MILES

Vlad Ilych still stands on Yakutsk's main square doing a particularly directional pose.

6. Yakutsk Regional History Museum

0.52 MILES

A good place to delve deeper into Sakha culture, the Regional History Museum contains local minerals, information on the region’s first Russian settlers…

7. Khomus Museum

0.81 MILES

Khomus (Jew’s harps) play a big part in Sakha culture. Concerts occur year-round, when performers imitate natural sounds such as a horse neighing. The…

8. Mammoth Museum

1.13 MILES

Despite its rather exciting-sounding name, this one-room museum is rather a let-down due to its total lack of signage in English. On the plus side, there…