In the city of Syktyvkar, Komi Republic on Communist Street 2 is Derbeneva Trading House, 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 marked by active construction of buildings designed specifically for trading. The construction of these houses was initiated while in-town merchants who were extremely disadvantageous to rent retail space in state-owned or private homes. For example, at the beginning of the Communist street, which at the time was called the Three Saints, some adjacent to the market square, began to be built brick buildings designed for shops of merchants from the city of Veliky Ustyug by name Derbeneva.

The famous family Derbeneva Trading house 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-storey room with a mezzanine in the central part, which previously housed the office. The structure of the house consisted of three large trading room, which houses a variety of manufactory, haberdashery, icons, furniture and more. Trade matters were engaged specially trained clerks. According to the surviving papers of the time, the trade turnover of the first department store in the city before the beginning of the revolution was a rather impressive amount of money.

The central part of the Trading house - a two-storey; It was built in the period from 1899 to 1900 years, and was intended for the needs of the sale of manufactured and haberdashery merchant belonging to the second guild Okhlopkova Fedor.

A few years later, namely in 1906, the store is bought Ustyug merchants: Gregory, Michael and Ivan Derbeneva. During 1906-1907 years on both sides of the house are attached single-storey and a number of streets Three Saints stretched along the so-called "wings", which allowed a greater extent to increase the sales rooms.

In 1918, the trading house was nationalized, and in the middle of that year, on the first floor of a building located a club called "The Star". The club has existed here until the winter of 1919 and had before it two spacious rooms, which housed a cinema, as well as a reading room and library. On the second floor of the City Committee located Ust-Sysolsk RCP. In the period from 1918 to 1919 club restaurant "Star" was a Bolshevik staff dedicated to monitoring work associated with all sorts of meetings, rallies, concerts and lectures.

During the years 1922-1935 in the building of the Trade House was Derbeneva city printing. In 1935, the department is located. In 1970, in Syktyvkar it was built a new department under the same name "Syktyvkar", after which the building previously existing department appeared furniture store, which was located here until the 1990s. Throughout 1997 and 1998, the building has undergone some changes related to the large-scale restoration work. Then it was given a branch of the National Museum of the Komi Republic, namely by exposure ethnographic department.

The last of the exhibitions department of the National Museum of Ethnography was formed in 2002. Its foundation was laid on a fabulous plot, which was developed on the basis of existing folklore materials, according to which the material and cultural culture of all the people based on the relationships between women and men - its main creators. Ekspozitsionerom this exhibition are: Pyankova TA, Liping VB, Smirnova ON, artists Burdaev NP, Samoilov AV, Dmitriev S. Pavlyuk About .. These talented people have decided to withdraw the traditional story of the culture of the people through the intrinsic material side, and shows a representation of the exposure in terms of the rites of the life cycle, defining the human path from birth to death.

Today the building houses the Commercial merchants Derbeneva looks different than in the old days, but still pleases residents and visitors with its unusual architecture is clearly visible against the background of the whole street.