Nikolay Ivanovich Pesterev, master of folk arts and crafts

Widely used birch bark utensils, utensils, toys, shoes and many other things in everyday life and households. Earlier almost all the peasants in Kirillovsky District (now Kirillovsky District, Vologda Region) could weave birch bark. Most often men were engaged in birch bark weaving, but many women were also proficient in this craft. The names of some villages in the Kirillov Uyezd reflect the occupation by birch bark weaving. For example Burakovo, Pesterevo, Lytkino, Lychkovo.