Lebyazhyevsky District Historical and Local History Museum

About museum

The district local history museum is one of the best in the region. It is located next to a shopping center and not far from the railway station. It was opened in 1995 in the house of Praskovya Martynovna Ketova. At present the museum displays many valuable exhibits, including artillery pieces and vehicles from the Great Patriotic War. There is a lecture hall, a merchants' hall, a trades and crafts hall, a 'shop' exhibit, a hall of military glory, and an evacuation hospital. The museum's collection includes a 1950s primer, a papakha and burka (traditional Caucasian hat and coat), a PPSh submachine gun, a collection of Kasli cast iron, and photographs of the district's villages and settlements. In addition, the museum hosts more than 40 exhibitions, events and staged guided tours with sound effects. The Shcherbinin Readings are also held for schoolchildren in memory of the museum's founder, Gennady Vasilievich Shcherbinin. The museum director, Galina Alekseevna Ustinova, is an expert on the history of the native region.