Museum of Leningrad Blockade Children's Home No. 26

About museum

\r\nIn 1987, former educator of Children's Home No. 26, Nina Semyonovna Dolgopolova, took the initiative to create a museum dedicated to the Siege of Leningrad. Until 2012 she served as the museum's director. The museum's initial collection was assembled with the help of the stanitsa's residents. Currently the museum has the status of a municipal institution and is the oldest building in the Nadezhny District. The building was built by Cossacks in 1900 and at various times was used as a parish school, a children's home for children evacuated from besieged Leningrad, and also as one of the buildings of an ordinary secondary school. At present the museum houses more than 1,200 exhibits, mainly items reflecting events of the Great Patriotic War, documents, photographs, printed materials and household items of the stanitsa's inhabitants.