Alekseevsky District Local History Museum

About museum

\r\nIn 1978 the Alekseevsky District Local History Museum was opened; it houses four separate halls. The first hall is devoted to the region's archaeology and displays unique exhibits: a well-known Polovtsian stone 'baba' from the 12th century, akinak swords of the Scytho-Sarmatian culture (4th–6th centuries), as well as tools and household items of the Srubnaya culture (2nd millennium BC). The second hall presents the history of the Cossacks (16th–19th centuries), maps, documents, awards from 19th-century wars and campaigns, and rare items of Cossack everyday life. The third hall represents the interior of a 19th-century Cossack gornitsa (living room) with Cossack clothing, icons and religious books. The fourth hall features an exhibition dedicated to fellow countrymen who participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Battle of Stalingrad. Among the museum's most valuable and unique collections are the numismatic collection of the 18th–20th centuries, a collection of headscarves and shawls from the late 19th–early 20th centuries, a collection of photographs of Cossacks from the 19th–20th centuries, and archaeological finds of the region — the most interesting items from the museum's holdings.