Tayaty Village

Tayaty is a village in Karatuzsky district of the Krasnoyarsk region, situated at the foothills of Western Sayan on the left bank of the Kazyr river. It was founded in 1890 by the schismatic Old Believers, natives of central Russia. The distance to the district’s centre – the village of Karatuzskoye – is 73 km, and to the nearest rather big city  Minusinsk  — 140 km.

The residents of the village actively revive forgotten crafts: basket weaving, wool felting, woodcarving, producing household utensils, candles and many others. In Tayaty they make healing cedar and fir oils, as well as healthy products on their base: healing balms and creams, cedar halva.

In 2022 the museum-estate of folk lifestyle and crafts  was opened in the village. It became possible thanks to the victory of the project “The village is missing the city, while the city is missing the village” in the competition “Start-ups in the sphere of culture, arts and creative industries”, held by the President’s Fund of cultural initiatives.

The aim of the project is mutual cultural exchange. For specialists from the city it is a dive into rural lifestyle, acquaintance with customs, crafts, and pristine taiga landscapes. For the residents of the taiga village this is an opportunity to be educated by the recognized professional in the arts sphere.

There is a constantly working exhibition and some temporary ones in the museum. A part of exhibits is from Malinovka, Motorsky and the regions of central Russia, where the first settlers and old-timers came to the village from. In the museum such items of lifestyle and crafts of the early 19^th century, brought from the Perm region, as flaky boxes, a flaky chest, birchbark boxes, are psented.

There are many utensils from neighbour villages as well as from the village of Tayaty: a spinning wheel, a rocker, an oil mill, baskets, vats, Dutch ovens, oven forks, milk pots, brass frying pans, flaky sieves, chests and others. The visitors will also see a collection of  kerosene lamps and rushnik towels from all the Krasnoyarsk region, old photos, books about the Old Believers and the map of the development of the Krasnoyarsk region’s territory. The museum psents a coal samovar, which will be heated to the guests’ visit.

You can get acquainted with the exposition through the museum quest, organized for groups of 3 people. For example, the participants will be offered to set cubes with the names of the ancient objects, psented in the museum. The duration of the quest is 40 minutes.

In the museum you can get a brochure with the developed cultural tourist route “Inspiration by Tayaty”, which includes historical facts, information about craftsmen, living in the village, and natural sights. For example, in the suburbs of the village there are stone deposits, so-called Tayaty Stolby. You can download the map of the village with the marked tourist locations using the link. 

The museum working hours: daily from15:00 to 18:00.

You can get registered for the quest over telephone +7 9628401503.