Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve named after E.D. Felitsyn

About museum

The E. D. Felitsyn Museum in Krasnodar is a museum with a rich history. It was founded in 1879 and began as the Kuban Cossack Ethnographic and Natural History Museum. In 1977 it was transformed into the Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve. In 1990 the museum was given the name of its founder, E. D. Felitsyn. Today the museum has four branches and several departments: the Anapa Archaeological Museum, the Taman Museum Complex, the M. Y. Lermontov House-Museum, the Temryuk Historical and Archaeological Museum, the Timashevsk Stepanov Family Museum, the Kuban Literary Museum, and the Memorial Apartment-Museum of G. F. Ponomarenko. The museum's collections include paleontology, numismatics, ethnography, ancient Greek pottery, toreutics, jewelry, weapons, materials on the settlement of Kuban by the Zaporozhian Cossacks, and a collection of Polovtsian (Cuman) sculptures. All these exhibits provide a rich picture of the history of Kuban.