Kiknur Local History Museum named after V.A. Sharygin

About museum

The early 1950s were marked by a rise in the local history movement among schoolchildren and the creation of school museums. One of the first was established at the Kiknur school. As local residents began to visit it, the question arose of creating a kolkhoz local history museum. By decision of the executive committee of the Yaran District Council of Workers' Deputies, in agreement with the board of the kolkhoz «Kiknur», the museum was provided with a separate building in the center of the village on Kooperativnaya Street (now Lenin Street). Thus, on July 3, 1960, the school museum was reorganized into the Kiknur Kolkhoz Museum, and later — into the Kiknur District Local History Museum, operating on a voluntary basis. The museum's governing body was a Council consisting of 15 people. Its members included leaders and specialists of the district's collective farms, editors of the district newspaper, teachers, local historians, students, and pensioners. The establishment of the museum in the district generated great interest in studying the history of the native land.