Khuzhir Museum of Local Lore named after N.M. Revyakin

A museum was founded in honor of historian-localist Nikolai Mikhailovich Revyakin. Revyakin himself was born in the Irkutsk village of Upper Kukut, born in a family of peasants. He studied at the Kurumchinsk two-class school, and then graduated from the Irkutsk gymnasium, with honors. He devoted himself to the elimination of illiteracy in the lands of the Oeksky district in the period of 1925-1926, then (1928) was appointed to the post of teacher and head of the Kurtun elementary school, secondary - in 1939. In 1944 he moved to the village of Khuzhir, acting as a teacher and director of a local secondary school.

At the dawn of the 50s of the last century, Revyakin organized a circle of local history at the Khuzhir High School - the foundation of the future museum. With a group of students, he found more than 2 dozen sites of Neolithic times, a relic tree near the highest mountain of the island - Zhima, a considerable material of ethnography. Retirement Revyakin retired in 1959, then thoroughly engaged in local history and expansion of the museum fund ethnographic, historical, floristic-faunistic exhibits of Olkhon. Also, the researcher contacted Obruchev, a famous academician, Revyakin named his museum brainchild after him. Only after the death of Nikolai Mikhailovich, the museum began to bear the name of the creator.

The collection of the Local Lore Museum of Khuzhir includes more than 5 thousand items illustrating the history of Olkhon, from ancient times to the sunset of the 20th century. The exposition includes important archaeological material obtained during the study of the found sites of Neolithic people. Guests are available household items Buryat, elements of fauna and flora of the area, collections of minerals and rocks, numismatics, occult attributes of shamanism.