Kezhemsky Historical and Ethnographic Museum named after Y.S. Kulakova

About museum

In 1985 a museum was opened in Kezhma at the initiative of the public. Four years later it was granted state status. The founder and first director of the museum was Yulia Stepanovna Kulakova. In 1990 the museum was relocated to the town of Kodinsk, where it gained recognition not only from residents of the Angara region but also from those for whom the Angara became a second homeland. The museum hosts various exhibitions: 'Nature and Trades of the Angara Region', where visitors can see taxidermy of animals and birds, a boat with fishing gear and a hunter's winter hut; 'Angara Household', which displays 19th-century domestic items; 'Boguchanskaya HPP', dedicated to the technologies and operating principles of the Boguchanskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant as well as to the history of the town of Kodinsk; and the 'Hall of Glory', devoted to veterans of the Great Patriotic War, home-front workers, and internationalist soldiers of the Kezhemsky District.