One of the most notable museums of Yaroslavl region is the famous Museum of nature, located in the small village of Borok. Its Foundation occurred in 1949, with the participation of Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin. On the creation of the collection was created by a Taxidermist and a great hunter Vasily V. Averkiev. Despite the fact that the village several distant from nearby settlements, it went even benefit the Museum, as the collection of necessary information were held in these places. According to studies in the Yaroslavl region was identified 352 species of vertebrates, most of them represented in the Museum exposition is a white stork, white-tailed eagle, Goshawk, great snowy owl and many other nesting on the territory of Yaroslavl region.

The greatest number of Museum exhibits have a rather peculiar history, for example, elk-stag 8 years of age, a baby lynx, elk that were found during the raids in 17 km from the village in 1983.

An important element of the exhibition is the paleontological collection, which was collected during the digging of the canal from the village and up to the Volga in zemsnarjada the ground. Our collection even includes the lower jaw large, woolly rhinoceros, a piece of mammoth Tusk and bones, vertebrae and ribs of a massive vertebrates.

Since 1988, once he was dead Vladimir Averkiev, to the position of head joined by his close friend, Sorin albert A..

Exhibition area of the Museum is 150 sqm and the whole space is divided into five separate rooms. The most spacious of the rooms are occupied to represent collections of related systematic groups – families, companies, and individuals. One room is decorated as phenological, and the small room is the workshop.

Upon entering the Department, which exhibits cold-blooded animals, it is possible to get acquainted closer with local fish, reptiles and amphibians. It is revealed that on the territory of Yaroslavl region there are 42 species of fish, of which 28 are shown within the exhibition. Among extinct species, we can mention the stellate sturgeon, Beluga, white fish and sturgeon, on the verge of extinction is the sturgeon. Exotic instances include: the shovelnose sturgeon, paddlefish, Caribbean pike, hammerhead, galloper, stick, seahorse, and sea trout needle. The total number represented in the Museum fish specimens is 60.

The second room is called phenological, because it presents more than 65 exhibits according to the seasons, starting from the arrival of rooks and ending with the change of summer cover in winter. The story begins with the theme of the arrival of rooks, black grouse and mountain hare, squirrels, complete spring moult. Then tells of displaying the snipe, the woodcock and nesting Lapwings – they are all housed in glazed display cases. In the area devoted to the summer period presented coot, cuckoo, corncrake, broad-billed Sandpiper and some others. Here you can see the lapwing Chicks and dip.

Within another Department you can see the bear, whose age 4 years, a large boar, 7-year-old elk-stag and a small calf. Available with large animal niches decorated forest biotopes, strictly relevant to the animal. Next, you can see 4 species of woodpecker, mammalian predators, represented by weasel, mink, ermine, marten, raccoon dog and Fox. Then presents five animals rabbits-hares and hares, and flying squirrels. The review ends with a wardrobe with a small collection of carnivorous owls.

In the Central part of the room are Windows, equipped with a rich collection of sparrows, terns, gulls, and guharay and grouse. Wall panels are located: herring gull, Northern Goshawk, as well as a large amount of the skin of a boa constrictor, whose length is 4 m.

All represented in the Museum of the artifacts found in the surrounding territory within a radius of 18 km. it is Important to say that in recent years the fauna of this area is greatly impoverished, because of which many species we have observed.