Albazinsky Local History Museum

About museum

On April 23, 1974 the Albazin Museum was opened, located next to an archaeological site of federal significance — the settlement 'Albazinsky ostrog'. The initiator of its creation was Agrippina Nikolaevna Dorokhina, a hereditary Albazin Cossack from the Surikov family. The museum houses 17th-century items found during excavations of the site: pendant crosses, tools, household objects and weapons of the Albazinians. The exhibition acquaints visitors with the history of the settlement of the Amur region by Russian pioneers and the establishment of the Albazinsky voivodeship in the 19th century. In the 1990s a complex called 'Cossack hut with a farmstead' was erected on the museum grounds, and in 2000 the Albazin Museum became a laureate of the 'Window to Russia' prize awarded by the newspaper 'Kultura' in the 'Museum of the Year' category. Today it is one of the popular tourist attractions of the Russian Far East, hosting regional and all-Russian festivals of Cossack culture and local history conferences.