The photo album in the collection of the Churapchinsky Museum is unique — it gives an insight into the history of the new economic policy in the region. It consists of portraits of builders of socialism, photographs of cultural monuments and agricultural buildings and other pictures.

The establishment and development of Soviet power in Churapcha is closely connected with the name of Nikolay Suburuussky.

Nikolay Krivoshapkin-Suburuussky was born on May 22, 1896 in the 2nd Khatylinsky settlement of Boturussky ulus, now Churapchinsky district, in a Yakut family of moderate means, according to some sources — in a poor family.

In his native Suburuussky settlement, he was schooled for two years by Ivan Tsytsenko, a political exile, a member of the revolutionary organization “Narodnaya Volya”. In 1911, he completed two years of study at the Churapchinsky Higher Elementary School. When Nikolay Suburuussky was 21 years old, the February and October revolutions took place, then the Russian Civil War and military intervention began. He lived through military communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP), industrialization and collectivization of agriculture, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, mass repressions and other historical periods, affecting the economy, politics and the citizens of the republic.

Nikolay Suburuussky was repressed in 1938 and rehabilitated in 1956. He worked in various social and political positions. Between 1924 and 1925 and between 1927 and 1928 he was chairman of the Churapchinsky volost and Yakutsk regional executive committees of the Communist Party. Between 1925 and 1926, he served as head of the Yakutsk branch of the United Government Political Department. From 1930 to 1934 he was Deputy People’s Commissar of Agriculture. Between 1934 and 1935 he was Deputy People’s Commissar of Health of the YASSR.

Nikolay Suburuussky did a lot for the preservation and development of agriculture in the region. In 1921, he organized the first communes “Sorgu” and “Kaskil” in his ulus, and conducted collectivization activities in agriculture. Between 1935 and1936 he worked as a chairman in Tulagino-Kildyamsky district in the collective farm named after Molotov, and at the end of the year the collective farm became one of the best in the region. Its representatives took part in the republican exhibitions of 1936–1938.

Apart from agriculture, Suburuussky worked in the field of education. Many schools were opened with his participation. Thus, while there were 6 schools in Boturussky ulus in 1926–1927, there were 14 of them after 1927–1928. In 1930–1934, 18 new schools worked in the district, with 2400 students and 50 teachers.