The Museum is a cultural centre of Krasnoborsk. It was founded by Sergei Ivanovich Tupitsyn, a historian and local history researcher. The Museum has got a rich collection of folk applied art objects which impress visitors with their richness and diversity, an exposition in local history where the peasants’ household tools are exhibited, a memorial hall of A.A. Borisov. The latter houses exhibitions of local artists. The Museum arranges celebrations devoted to the Polar explorer’s art. One can buy souvenirs made by folk masters, paintings of northern artists, as well as books on local history.

A.A. Borisov’s country-house built in Modern style includes many elements and techniques of other architectural styles, all together they make an amazing building with different-size windows, numerous little towers, brackets, plank and shingle roofs – elements of wooden architecture. The artist himself designed and built the house on a piece of land that belonged to his father.

Additional storey brings special expressiveness to the house, it was designed as a tent-roofed many-sided tower with glass walls designed as the ‘Krimean residence of Kuindgi», who used to be A.A. Borisov’s teacher.

After the artist’s death in 1932 the residence was used a parachute school, since 1937 it housed the children’s sanatorium «Yevda». In 2001 the house was passed over to the Museum Union.

It is situated on the high bank of the River Yevda and consists of two churches made of stone, the Voznesenskaya (the Ascention) Church (1823-1827) and the Uspenskaya (the Dormition) Church (1855-1859). The architectural ensemble in connected with the name of Samson Sukhanov who is known to the Russian architecture historians as a talented stone –cutter and sculptor. The Voznesenskaya (the Ascention) Church was built as a classicism style temple the cupola of which has a plan of a cross. Having such intricately arranged spaces the Church has no analogues among the northern churches. The interior decorations have details and motifs of the Ustyug Stone architecture of the 18th century.

When travelling across the Krasnoborsk District, please, do not miss Shelomya on the Yevda River bank, 12 km from the District centre. There is a church complex of the Nikolsky Pogost comprising a wooden church (1780) and that made of brick (1853). Shelomya is a picturesque and a legendary place in the Krasnoborsk lands. Once there were twenty villages scattered on the hill slopes covered with century-old forests, below the Yevda, a shallow-watered riverlet, ran. Unique primordial nature guarded Shelomya from all sides both of winds and misfortunes. The historic place attracts people with its mysterious and secretive nature. The legend says it was here that Yermak’s camp once stood from where he went to Siberia to fight the Prince Kuchum and conquer the eastern spaces of the country on the order of the dignitaries the Stroganovs.

The ancient village of Permogorye, first mentioned in documents in 1379, lies on the left bank of the Northern Dvina, only 20 km from Krasnoborsk.

Permogorye is a place where a unique folk craft appeared – painting on wooden households tools and objects. The most interesting are distaffs with grass motifs and diverse genre pictures of peasants’ life, such as haymaking, sowing, etc.

Dominating the village is a singular architectural church ensemble. Its construction dates back to the times when the areas along the Northern Dvina banks were being populated in the 16th century. The most ancient of all the survived buildings of the Pogost, the wooden Georgiyevskaya (St. George’s) Church (1665), lends still greater importance to the ensemble. In 1748-1762 the two-storey Voskresenskaya (the Resurrection) Church was built of stone in the village, together with a bell-tower and a refectory. No doubt, it belongs to the best examples of the church architecture in the Solvychegodsk Uyezd (District).

The complex is situated on a high bank of the Northern Dvina in an open space which allows to see the boundless river valley. The wide meadow where the ensemble was build is limited by the high bank on one side, on the three other sides by deep ravines where fur-tees densely grow.

By 1838 when the main construction works in the Pogost came to their finish, the Pogost ensemble was a combination of building diverse in sizes and character: the wooden heated in winter refectory of the Uspenskaya (the Dormition) Church (1691), the wooden Petrovskaya (Peter’s) Chapel (the 1st half of the 18th century) built over the burial place of the Reverend Petr of Cherevkovo who was tortured to death by the invading Poles in 1613, the large intricately decorated Troitskaya (the Trinity) Church made of stone (1727-1765). Different as they were these buildings were mutually complimentary making a picturesque and free composition of silhouettes and volumes. The main place was designated to the Troitskaya (the Trinity) Church, its high monumental structure, the well-proportioned bell-tower of many tiers were seen even from the Northern Dvina River 4 km away. The loss of the bell-tower and the Uspenskaya (the Dormition) Church did not make the ensemble less dominating, it is still the centre of the village though the architectural image of the Pogost changed dramatically. The village can boast of wooden and stone buildings of the end of the 19th- the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Tsivozero is situated 10 km from Krasnoborsk on the right bank of the Northern Dvina River. A bell-tower of the Tsivozero Parish, a unique monument of wooden architecture has survived here. The wooden bell-tower (1658) makes an ensemble with the Petropavlovskaya (Peter and Paul’s) Church (1856-1869) made of stone.

Today the area of Pogost can boast of two monuments, one of them is a tent-roofed and nine-pillared bell-tower, unique in its artistic expressiveness and in its historical and architectural importance, and the Petropavlovskaya (Peter and Paul’s) Church made of stone at the end of the 18th- the beginning of the 19th century, 40-45 m away from the bell-tower. In spite of the tragic losses the ensemble is, no doubt, of great interest.

In the past this used to be an ancient pogost (a village church with a cemetery) of the Veliky Ustyug Uyezd (district). The population of the area were peasants and craftsmen, had their own businesses and traded with all the centres of Pomorye.

Uftyuga is the centre of folk arts and crafts. The objects made by the Uftyuga craftsmen can be seen all over the Russian North.

For many centuries the pogost adorns the village standing on a high bank at a place where the Dmitrovsky Stream flows into the river. The surviving complex comprises two Dmitrovskya churches – one is wooden, the other made of stone and heated in winter. The pride of both the Uftyuga Pogost and the Krasnoborsky District is one of the most outstanding monuments of ancient architecture in Russia, a tent-roofed church devoted to Demetrius of Thessalonica built in 1794 of round logs.

Together with the cross the monument is 43 m high, it is 6 m higher than the famous Preobrazhensky ( the Transfiguration) Cathedral in Kizhi. The plank tent is half the height. Inside one can see that it was built, unlike other surviving tents, without any intermediate tierrods, rafters or joists from its bottom to the cupola above. This is why the construction looks so expressive.