Ethnographic Museum of Lazarevskoye settlement

About museum

\r\nIn 1985 an ethnographic museum was established in the settlement of Lazarevskoye; it is one of the branches of the Museum of the History of the Resort City of Sochi. On May 12, 1990 the museum was opened to the public. The building that houses the exhibition belonged to the merchant Popandopulo and was built no later than 1914. In 1920 the building was nationalized. It has two floors, a multi-level roof and wooden spires, and the walls are made of stone. Before the revolution the owner's family lived on the upper floor, his shop was on the first floor, and the basement housed a wine cellar. In the 1920s–1980s the building was used to organize a school for peasant youth, and in 1986 it was transferred to the Department of Culture to establish a museum there. The museum's exhibition includes more than 1,000 exhibits devoted to the geography of migration, the culture of settlers and other ethnic characteristics.