Mendeleevsk Local History Museum

About museum

The Mendeleevsk Local History Museum is located in the historic center of a small town on the banks of the Kama and Toyma rivers. It includes two land plots of the historical-cultural and natural territory “Ushkov Estate” and four architectural and urban-planning monuments. One of the buildings was converted into a museum with exhibition and display halls and a collections storage. Until 1992 the premises housed the office of the partnership “P. K. Ushkov & Co.”, which managed the Bondyuzh and Kokshan chemical factories. The classical-style building was constructed in 1870; the second floor was added in the early 20th century. Nearby stands a watchtower in the style of a “Romanesque donjon”; the ornate room on the second floor contains a fireplace. The design of the cast-iron balusters on the staircase and the decorative floor tiles convey the refined taste of the Ushkov merchant-industrialist family.