Travel Guide Cherkekh ())

200 km east of Yakutsk, an ethnohistoric open-air museum. Otherwise known as the Museum of Political Exiles, it was founded in 1977 with the mission of showing how Russian culture, brought by the convicts (the best known are the writers Chernyshevsky, Korolenko and the Decembrist Muraviev-Apostol), has profoundly influenced the ways of life of the tundra. The village includes reconstructed houses of exiles, yurts, traditional Sakha houses and restored Orthodox churches: St. Nicholas (1912) and Vladimirskaya (18th). The excursion to Cherkekh is offered by many agencies. You can reach it by bus from the Yakutsk bus station.