A. V. Chirkin House-Museum

About museum

A. V. Chirkin House-Museum is a structural subdivision of the Kasli Historical and Art Museum. In 1989, with the support of the Main Directorate of Culture and Arts of the Chelyabinsk Region, the house in which Alexander Chirkin lived from 1973 to 1989 was purchased from his heirs. Biography of Alexander Chirkin. Alexander Vasilievich Chirkin was born in Kasli on July 23, 1930. At the age of 14 he went to work at the Kasli Cast Iron Foundry (KChLZ), working as a molder's apprentice while also attending the city art studio under the direction of the factory's chief sculptor P. S. Anikin and the senior chaser master M. O. Glukhov. As a capable and diligent pupil, in 1949 he was sent to study at the Leningrad preparatory school of the Academy of Arts, where he studied under the then-famous M. P. Kramsky (monumental sculptor Mikhail Pavlovich Kramsky (1917-1999), not to be confused with the itinerant painter Ivan Nikolaevich Kramsky (1837-1887)).