In the city of Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic in Communist street 2 is Trade house Derbeneva, which is part of the National Museum of the Komi Republic.

The period of the late 19th – early 20th centuries in the city of Ust-Sysolsk was marked by active construction of buildings specifically designed for trading. The construction of these homes was the initiative of visiting the city from other merchants, which was extremely disadvantageous to rent retail space in a government or private homes. For example, at the beginning of the Communist street, which at one time bore the name of three saints, a few adhering to the market square, were built of brick buildings intended for shopping merchants from the city of Veliky Ustyug by name Derbeneva.

Famous Trading house family Derbeneva was built in the late 19th century and became the most spacious and largest of all existing stores in the city of Ust-Sysolsk. The building is a symmetrical one-story space with a mezzanine in the Central part, in which previously housed the office. The composition of the house consisted of three large trading hall, which housed a variety of dry goods, fancy goods, icons, furniture and much more. The Affairs of trade practiced by specially trained clerks. According to the preserved papers of that time, the turnover in the first city Department store until the beginning of the revolution was rather impressive amount of money.

The Central part of the Trading house – two-story; it was built in the period from 1899 to 1900 and was designed for the needs of selling dry goods and fancy goods merchant, belonging to the Second Guild replied Feodor Ivanovich.

A few years later, namely in 1906, the store is redeemed Ustyug merchants: Gregory, Michael and Ivan Derbenev. During 1906-1907, on both sides attached to the house is single storied and somewhat elongated along three saints street the so-called "wings", which allowed to a greater extent to increase the indoor shopping malls.

In 1918, the Trading house was nationalized, and in the middle of the same year, on the first floor of the building housed a club called "Star". The club remained here until the winter of 1919 and had at its disposal two spacious rooms, which are placed by yourself in a cinema, as well as a reading room and library. On the second floor of the municipal Committee of Ust-Sysolsk RCP. In the period from 1918 to 1919 club "Star" was a Bolshevik staff dedicated to the supervision of works associated with various kinds of meetings, rallies, concerts and lectures.

Over the years 1922-1935 in the building of the Trading house Derbeneva was urban typography. In 1935 it housed a Department store. In 1970 in Syktyvkar was built a new store under the same name "Syktyvkar", then in the building previously existing Department store appeared furniture store, which was located here until the 1990-ies. During 1997 and 1998, the building underwent some changes associated with conducting large-scale restoration. Then it was transformed into a branch of the National Museum of the Komi Republic, namely the ethnographic Department.

The last of the collections of the Department of Ethnography of the National Museum was formed in 2002. At its Foundation was laid for a story that was developed on the basis of folklore materials, according to which material and cultural culture of the entire nation is based on the relationship between Women and Men – its main creators. The designers of this exhibition were: T. A. Pyankov, Lipin B. V., Smirnova O. N., artists Burdayev N. P., Samoylov A.V., Dmitriev S., Pavlyuk About.. these talented people have decided to depart from the traditional story about the culture of the people, through inherent material side, and showed its exposition from the point of view of the rites of the life cycle that defines the human journey from birth to death.

To date, the building of the Trading house merchants Derbeneva looks different than in the old days, but still pleases residents and visitors with its unusual architecture, clearly stands out against the background of the whole street.