Balezinsky District Historical and Local Lore Museum

About museum

Balezinsky District Historical and Local Lore Museum serves as the organizational and methodological center for local history work in the district. It houses permanent exhibitions dedicated to ethnography, Soviet everyday life, and the history of Balezinsky District. In addition, the museum conducts research in the following areas: the history of Balezinsky District and the settlement of Balezino; the military and labor glory of local people; prominent figures of the district; the history of Soviet provincial life; the ethnography of the Upper Chepets group of northern Udmurts, Russians (including Old Believers), as well as Chepets Tatars and Besermyan. The museum has more than 15,000 exhibits, among them ancient archaeological items from the 9th–14th centuries AD, remains of extinct animals, and petrified wood up to 1.5 million years old. The museum is known not only in Udmurtia but far beyond: it has been visited by residents of 44 regions of the country and guests from the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Turkey, India, and China.