Buryat yourta

The yourta of the end of century was took out from the buryat is village Bayangazuy of Ekhirit-Bulagatsky district of Buryat's national territory of Ust-Orda. It was restored in 2001. The author of restoration project is the architect A.V. Subbotin.

The yourta is the octagonal framework made of the larch - the durable and tasting material. Tree three-edge cants with the plane oriented inside are the main feature of yourta. The other feature of yourta is the ceiling made of beams covered with larch rinds, sods and boards that is why the yourta obtains the volume.

By popular belief the Buryat family residing in the yourta made of three-edge cants might hope for easy circumstances and numerous posterity as the triangle being the base of beams is identified with the sign of female fertility with the formula of eternally renewing life.

The passage attached to yourta testifies to the influence of Russian culture. The construction of these yourtas requires many of time and certain skill. A few of the Buryat* s dwellings of such type are kept, more often it was constructed in summer sites, on the areas of cattle pasture.

The summer Yourta a was removed in 1980 from Alaguevsk ulus of Olkhon district region. It is dated by the end of XIX and beginning of XX century.

The exposition Yourta of young Buryat family characterizes the main moments of ВBuryats life connected wife the family creation, the birth and the education children.

The birth of child in Buryat family was the important event. The kiddy was surrounded with live, care. By the Buryat notions the small child under the threat of evil spirits and to protect him the child' talismans were used.

The Buryats are resorted often to the shaman help, to various magic ceremonies, rites, peace-offerings to save the life and the health of the child. The alive domesticated eagle-owl might be kept in the yourta, if it wasn’t available at least a bunch of his feathers, as the night watcher of the child soul. The sharp iron articles - axe, scythe, knife – was suspended or put near to the cradle, by the popular beliefs the evil spirits into are afraid of it.