About a mile's walk down to the bank of the Yukon River a man I only heard referred to as "Jake the crazy Russian" was building this pentagonal cabin on contract for a local Athabaskan man. The Athabaskans are the Native American tribe indigenous to this area, making up 80% of the population of Galena. Jake the Russian was a master carpenter and was carving most of the cabin by hand. They had traveled 200 miles upriver to select the trees, felled them and floated them down to the spot on the bank at Galena, where Jake would carve. Then they would mark all of the logs, disassemble the cabin, and move it to the final location.
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