Safyanov Historical and Local Lore Museum, Turan

About museum

The branch of the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva located in Turan was originally established as a historical-revolutionary museum. The house that houses the museum was built at the beginning of the 20th century and originally stood on the bank of the Turan River. In 1936 the State Bank bought the house from the peasant Porfiry Reshetnikov and moved it to its current location. In 1980 the bank moved to another building and this house was transferred to the museum. In 2002 the museum was named after the Safyanovs, members of a well-known family of Russian merchant-industrialists who made a significant contribution to the development of Tuva–Russian relations in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The museum has a section of the permanent exhibition devoted to the Safyanovs, as well as sections 'Collective farm "Red Ploughman"', 'Items of Russian everyday life', 'Ethnography of the Tuvans', 'Heroes of the Great Patriotic War' and 'Ancient history of the Turano-Uyuk basin'.