Kavkazskaya Stanitsa Local History Museum

About museum

The stanitsa Kavkazskaya has a rich history described by A. D. Lamonov, a voiskovoy starshina (senior officer) of the Kuban Cossack Host and historian, in his historical sketch on the settlement of the stanitsa Kavkazskaya. Inspired by this, World War II veteran and School No. 1 teacher Yevgeny Petrovich Goroshnikov organized a student trek to the sites of the Kuban cordon line fortifications. Exhibits prepared with the participation of specialists from the regional museum formed the basis of the first museum in the stanitsa, established at School No. 1; it opened in 1968 and was awarded the honorary title 'People's' in 1994. In the autumn of 2015 the museum was moved to the Malinovsky House, where exhibitions were set up about the history of the stanitsa's founding by the Cossacks, the construction of the Kavkazskaya fortress, notable people connected with the stanitsa, as well as the Civil War, the Great Patriotic War, and the museum's 50th anniversary. In the summer of 2018 the museum courtyard began to be transformed, and an open exhibition area was created featuring the exhibition 'Kuban — Mother, Hospitable'.