Medvezhyegorsky District Museum

About museum

In 1961 Viktor Petrovich Ershov, a geography teacher at Medvezhyegorsk boarding school No. 4, led local-history excursions with his students around the district, as a result of which many of the first exhibits for the school museum were collected. On April 7, 1962, by decree, the Medvezhyegorsky Historical and Local History Museum was opened, which received more than a thousand visitors within a year. The head of the school museum was the geography teacher Viktor Petrovich Ershov, and the students continued to collect exhibits for the museum. In 1969, by decree of the Council of Ministers of the Karelian ASSR, the museum was transformed into a branch of the State Historical, Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve "Kizhi". In 1977 it was reorganized as a branch of the Karelian State Local History Museum, and since 1991 it has been known as the "Medvezhyegorsky City Museum".