Yaiva Museum of Local Lore

Yaiva is one of the many settlements formed during the Soviet period. The main industry was represented by three enterprises: Verkh-Yaivinsky timber industry, house-building plant and Yaivinskaya GRES.

The museum in the village of Yaiva was founded in 1974 originally as a museum of the Upper Yaivinsky forest industry, which eventually grew into local lore. The main tasks of the museum are collecting, studying, storing and popularizing the history of the village and the region as a whole.

The museum has four halls with permanent exhibitions: ethnography and life, history, nature and the history hall of the Yaivinskaya GRES. Temporary exhibitions are exhibited in the exhibition hall. In the 60s, on the sites of the Upper Yaivinsky forest industry, shootings of the popular comedy “Girls” took place. A separate exposition is devoted to this fact.

Among the exhibits of the museum are household and ethnography items, items of history of technology, graphic sources, documents, photographs, rare books. There is a unique collection of stuffed animals and birds. This is a brown bear, a female wild boar, a deaf, an elk and moose, a fox, an ermine, a lynx, a marten kitus, a badger, hares, a swan, a crow, a gull, a gray crane, a crumb, predatory and songbirds and other representatives of the fauna of the region.