Ashalchi Oki Literary House-Museum

About museum

In 1974, in honor of the first Udmurt poetess Ashalchi Oki (Lina Grigoryevna Vekshina), who devoted her life to serving her people and fighting for national culture, a memorial plaque was installed on the house at 5 Pervomayskaya Street, where she lived from late 1952 until 1973. In 1983, after the death of L. G. Vekshina's husband Ivan Ivanovich Karachev, the authorities and public of Udmurtia decided to create a museum dedicated to A. Oki. Thus, on May 29, 1985, house No. 5 on Pervomayskaya Street was transferred to Valery Ivanovich Karachev (A. Oki's son) by inheritance, and the garden was given to children from an orphanage. On November 3, 1987, the ceremonial opening of the first literary house-museum in the republic took place. In 1988 the museum joined the Udmurt Republican Museum of Fine Arts, and in 1990 it became part of the Kuzebay Gerd National Museum of the Udmurt Republic. Today the museum is part of the municipal budgetary cultural institution "Alnash Historical-Literary Museum of the municipal formation Alnashsky District."