Museum of Ivan Yarygin

Museum of Ivan Sergeevich Yarygin in c. Sisaya opened to visitors on August 20, 1999, almost two years after the tragic death of the outstanding athlete. This is the only museum in Russia dedicated to the athlete.

I.S. Yarygin is a legendary wrestler, an outstanding personality in the history of national and world sports, a person who was able to climb all three archicomplex peaks of sports glory: an athlete, a coach, a sports manager.

The idea of sports, coaching, social and personal life of I.S. Yarygin is received by the museum visitors with the help of photo and video materials. In addition, the exposition shows personal belongings, documents, commemorative medals, cups and books of the great Olympian.

The original exhibits of the parent house are especially highlighted. The composition of the tools of the Yarygin family, which Ivan used: an anvil with a sledgehammer, an eight-vere torba (a container for collecting berries, mushrooms, nuts and carrying fish), a braid, a column - all this helps tourists understand how Ivan Yarygin gained such phenomenal strength of body and spirit, amazing endurance, agility and flexibility.

Being the only museum in the region dedicated to the athlete, the institution sees its purpose in that on the example of the life of a great countryman to contribute to the formation of a comprehensively developed, physically strong, healthy person, a patriot of your land, country and business, which you serve.