SIGHTINGS OF THE BURYATIA
TUNKINSKAYA VALLEY
The historical-ethnographic museum in the village of Hoytogol (Northern
valley)
The museum was opened in 1990. The initiative of its foundation belongs to the
former teacher of History of Hoytogol secondary school, a regional specialist -
Shobonova Elizaveta Lopsonovna, who had collected the subjects of material
culture of the Buryats for many years, and then gave them to the museum. The
museum was built under the method of people’s construction, materials for this
purpose were allocated by the state - farm “Turansky”.
The museum possesses a rich collection of exhibits, the majority from which are
the originals.
The museum was built in the form of dwelling of the Buryats: an 8-walled yurta.
Inside the yurta is designed according to traditional rules.
here are represented :
Horse and hunting equipment,
forge tools,
household goods,
utensils,
clothes,
female ornaments,
ancient coins and banknotes.
One of the sights of the museum is a unique record of genealogy of several
kins of the Khongodors containing names of many generations. There are also data
on toponymics and samples of the Buryat annals.
One of expositions of the museum is devoted to legendary Shargay -Noyon, the
corner of Glory has materials about the soldiers - natives of the village of
Hoytogol who struggled on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War and in
contemporary wars as well.
The creation of open exposition under a canopy is planned, where the elements of
traditional agricultural tools will be exposed : a sledge, a cart, a “kozhemyaka”(a
skin-crumpler), a mill.
During the academic year the museum is the place for the school local lore club.
Schoolchildren and teachers conduct research work and represent their results at
the conference and fill up funds of the museum.
The museum attracts special interest because the type of the exposition
represented here is unique, it testifies to the mutial penetration of two
cultures: the Eastern one, represented by the Buryat people and European,
represented by Russian people, first of all, Cossacks.
The excursion around the museum gives a distinct idea about life, customs,
rituals of natives, and also about life and service of the Buryat Cossacks,
protecting boundaries of the Russian state from the attacks of the Mongolian
troops.
After joining Buryatiya to Russia, each Buryat kin from Arshan sent one family
for the organization of frontier post in the valley of Hoyto-goal and to the
south. They were the kins of Badarkhan, Khongodor, Shoshoolog. In this way the
Buryat cossacks appeared in the Tunkinskaya valley. Historical proofs to this
event can be found in the exposition of the museum.
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