Kurakh Local History Museum

About museum

In 2001 the Kurakh Local History Museum was opened, presenting more than 1,000 exhibits. Here you can learn how the highlanders of the Kurakh district used to live. The exhibition displays household items: ceramic vessels, cast-iron pitchers, pots for milk and butter, wooden spoons, irons, and tools such as animal-shearing scissors, a spinning wheel and carding combs. Particular attention is drawn to footwear called "charyky" and Russian bast shoes (lapti). Unique exhibits of the museum include a handwritten 19th-century Koran and a wooden support pillar from an old 16th-century mosque. The final part of the exhibition is devoted to the residents of the village of Kurakh, their participation in the Great Patriotic War, and photographs of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia.