ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

Sector «Village of Yamka»

One of the local historic settlements the village of Yamka is located on the eastern lakeshore in the core of Kizhi Island. The village was first mentioned in the chronicles of the Novgorod Republic in 1563 as a domain of a Novgorod boyard (a feudal lord) Nickita Aphanasiyev. The settlement was called ‘Trophimovskaya’ at that time. During a lapse of five centuries it has been renamed more than once.
At the beginning of the 20th century as a result of events unknown up to now, the village got its present name ‘Yamka’.
At present time on the site of the former old settlement a museum village has been made with most of its buildings being moved from different places in Zaonejye. When creating this village, the original coastal layout, and number of houses were preserved. Each of the present houses in Yamka is unique, but all of them at the same time recreate historic panorama of a typical Zaonejye village.

List of monuments:

• The granary near the house of Pertiakov
• The granary from the village of Lipovitsy (near the house of Vichurin)
• The granary on water from the village of Mizhostrov
• The house of peasant Ananyeva from the village of Krasnaya Selga
• The house of peasant Berezkina from the village of Krasnaya Selga
• The house of peasant Vitchurin from the village of Vigovo
• The house of peasant Levitchev from the village of Ust-Yandoma
• The house of peasant Moshnikova
• The house of peasant Nikonov from the village of Lipovitsi
• The house of peasant Oshevnev in the village of Yamka
• The house of peasant Pertyakov from the village of Ust-Yandoma
• The house of Ponomarev from the village of Manshino
• Horse stable
• The smithy from the village of Yuzhnyi Dvor
• The windmill from the village of Voroniy Ostrov
• Cross of respectful salutation (‘poklonny’ cross) from the village of Hashezero
• Threshing barn from the village of Lipovitsy
• Sts. Peter and Paul Chapel from the village of Tipinitsy (Berezhnaya)
• The Chapel of the Vernicle from the village of Vigovo