The Yelan Museumm of Local Lore and History

Currently, the Museum is a research, cultural, educational and leisure center of the district. Its collections are devoted to the history of the development of the region. The exposition presents traditional crafts, everyday lifeand ethnographic detales of inhabitants of Yelan. The raelias from Yelan merchant's everyday life of the past century are exhibited: carved furniture, gramophone, scales with a set of weights, tweezers for sugar. There are many photos on the walls which were usual decoration of the interior in those years. The interior of the peasant hut is of great interest. There you can learn about the main occupations of the peasants - agriculture, cattle breeding, various crafts - pottery, wood carving, weaving, wicker, birch bark.