Archaeological Entailed Museum on the Andreevskoye Lake

The Archaeological Museum is situated 25 km away from Tyumen on the picturesque bank of the Andreevskoye lake. In 1883 the first archaeological excavations were carried out here by the founder of the Tyumen museum of local lore Ivan Slovtsov. Later on numerous traces of ancient settlements from different ages were discovered. Well preserved were fragments of towns, burial places and sanctuaries. The earliest discoveries can be dated back to Stone age (5 thousand years B.C.).

Some defense installations dated to the Iron age were incorporated into the Museum’s territory. Near the entailed territory an ancient sanctuary of the Mansy people was discovered. It displayed a lot of cult items and decorations not known before. The life-style of the Khanty and Mansy peoples is represented through reconstruction of their ethnical housing and household constructions, which testify richness and uniqueness of spiritual culture and everyday life of the northern peoples, who possessed a mystery of harmonic co-existence with severe climate and wild nature.