V. A. Rusanov House-Museum

About museum

The museum of Vladimir Alexandrovich Rusanov (1875–1913) — an outstanding scientist and public figure, polar explorer — was opened on December 25, 1982 in a wooden one-story house with a mezzanine in the old merchant quarter of Oryol. This place was especially dear to Rusanov, as he spent his childhood and youth here and also rested here after foreign and northern trips. The museum tells of his polar expeditions, their scientific and practical value, as well as the search for Rusanov's last expedition to study the Northern Sea Route. The museum also contains other exhibits: materials from the high-latitude polar expedition of the newspaper 'Komsomolskaya Pravda', the expedition of the travelers' club 'Priklyuchenie' (Adventure), etc. You can also learn about the lives of the peoples of the North and about urban life at the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th century. For many years the museum has maintained close contacts with travelers and researchers of the Arctic and Antarctic.