Exhibits and collections
Currently, the collection is ready to be exhibited is more than 30 specimens, including frozen carcasses of mammoths, rhinos and other prehistoric animals, age of specimens – more than 35 000 years. All exhibits are in excellent condition and represent not only scientific interest but also of considerable potential use in advertising and propaganda that fits in with the doctrine of "soft power" of the Russian Federation
Cave lion cubs Spartacus and Boris
Discovered by Yakutian Academy of Sciences in 2017 and 2018 during scientific research in northern Yakutia. Boris 1-2 weeks old, Spartak - 2 - 3 weeks. The approximate time of life is 47,000 years ago.
Woolly Rhinoceros Sasha
The contemporary of mammoths, the age of the artifact is about 30,000 years. The biological age of the animal is 2 years. Found by hunters on the arctic ocean coast in Yakutia in the fall of 2014. Likely, the rhino died after falling into a pit. Some of the carcass was eaten by wild animals (there are bites on the skin), but the head of the animal remained almost in perfect condition.Surprisingly, Sasha`s eye, teeth, ear, hooves and horns have been preserved.
Baby mammoth Yuka
Year of find: 2010
Find place: Yakutia, shore of the Laptev Sea in the Ust-Yansk Ulus
Life time: 40 000 years ago, age: 6 - 10 years
Prominent exhibitions:
2013 - Yokogama (Japan) "The Frozen Woolly Mammoth YUKA"
Head of the Yukagir mammoth
Year of find: 2002
Find place: Yakutia, Muksuonoka river
Life time: 18 400 years ago
Prominent exhibitions:
2005 - EXPO 2005 Nagoya (Japan);
2009 - Beijing - "Mammoths – 18000 years. A dream in permafrost"
Baby mammoth Dima
Year of find: 1977
Find place: Kolyma, mouth of the Kirgilyakh stream
Prominent exhibitions:
Yakutia – "Monument to the Baby Mammoth";
2003 – Helsinki
2006 – "Climate Change" – the Westphalian Archaeological Museum in Herna;
2008 – Seoul, "Palaeontological Treasures of Russia"
Carcass of the Kolyma woolly rhinoceros
Year of find: 2007
Find place: Yakutia, bank of the Kolyma river near the settlement of Cherskiy
Life time: 39140±390 years ago
Prominent exhibitions:
2013 - Yokohama (Japan) "Frozen Woolly Mammoth YUKA"
Skeleton of the Churapchinsky mammoth
Year of find: 1991
Find place: Yakutia, to the west of the Diring settlement
Prominent exhibitions:
2012 – Latvia, Riga and Venspils
2014 - Russia, Vladivostok and Moscow
Reconstruction of the dwelling of the ancient man
This exhibit is built of bones of woolly mammoths and primitive bisons from different locations; besides, skins of modern horses and an iron framework are used.
Prominent exhibitions:
2013 - Yokohama (Japan) "Frozen Woolly Mammoth YUKA"
The collection is constantly updated with new finds Yakut scientists in the summer of 2015 from the permafrost in Yakutia extracted well-preserved remains of two cave lions.
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