Mikun Branch
About museum
The Museum of the History of the City of Mikun displays exhibits about the construction of the Northern Railway and the founding and development of the town as an important transport hub with rail lines and oil and gas pipelines. Visitors can also see photographs, certificates, letters and personal belongings of the first railway builders, models and parts of steam locomotives. The museum holds a collection of photographs, documents and paintings by B. A. Starchikov, as well as materials about repressed people who worked in Mikun. The museum's halls also present the history of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' corrective labor system, the town of Ust-Vym and personal fates within the GULAG system.