At first glance, the Angarsk Village hall has a lot in common with the entire everyday appearance of pre-revolutionary Russia. However, even here there are features inherent exclusively in the Siberian and Angara culture: shoes — cherki, brodni, bokari; socks made of horsehair; mosquito nets, wooden dishes, and almost all household utensils made of wood.
The hut, while preserving its architectural style, as in all of Russia has its own outlines and principles of construction from roundwood, but the material used in the museum is transparent plastic, which has a soft shine in the light, and is also completely transparent, this allows you to see the environment as much as possible. It’s like a shined hangar hut inside and out. The tradition of washing the house once a year from the outside from the foundation to the ridge testifies to the cleanliness of the Hangars.
The village of Boguchanskoye, which grew out of Zaimka, has been known since 1630, but the year of foundation according to archival documents is 1642.
The old-time settlement of the area was associated with the movement of Russian explorers to the east at the beginning of the XVII century, the basis of the population was immigrants from Pomerania. The traditional occupations of the Angarians changed over time. Initially, it was fishing and fur trade. By the end of the XIX century, an agricultural, cattle-breeding and commercial type of economy had already been established.
Fishing and hunting are the oldest folk crafts that have become very widespread in the Northern Angara region. The abundance of taiga animals and birds, the richness of fish stocks determined the predominant development of hunting and fishing as crafts that provided the population with basic foodstuffs for two and a half centuries.
