Lebyazhsky District Local History Museum

About museum

Already in the late 1930s the editor of the district newspaper “Vpered”, M. A. Sazanov, urged the residents of Lebyazhye to organize a local history museum. On May 8, 1941, a local history circle was formed, in which it was decided to collect historical documents, antiques and identify sites for geological research for the future museum. However, their plan could not be realized due to the outbreak of the war. In the 1970s interest in local history grew, and on April 10, 1980, a local history museum was opened in the village of Yelkino. Exhibits began to be added by A. M. and E. M. Kostrikov and E. V. Verkhotina, who worked as teachers at the Yelkino school. On May 8, 2000, the Lebyazhsky District Local History Museum was opened, dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Today the museum has 8 halls: the Hall of Military Glory, the Nature Hall, the Peasant Household Hall, the Hall of Lebyazhye History, the Hall of paintings by artist G. I. Luchinin "White Square", the hall "History, Events, People", the "Peasant Yard" hall and the Exhibition Hall.