P. K. Kozlov Memorial Apartment Museum

About museum

The P. K. Kozlov Memorial Apartment Museum is one of the youngest academic museums in St. Petersburg. It was established in late 1988 at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) branch of the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the initiative of a number of organizations and individual scholars, such as academicians E. M. Lavrenko, A. P. Okladnikov, and A. L. Yanshin. The main idea of the museum's founders was to acquaint broad segments of the population with "scientific work bordering on heroism, the pleiad of world-famous geographer-explorers who laid the foundation of modern knowledge about Central Asia."