Museum and Exhibition Center 'House of I.A. Kotelnikov'

About museum

On the former city estate of the Amur merchant, gold miner and entrepreneur Innokentiy Alexandrovich Kotelnikov, a building was erected in the Art Nouveau style with elements of late 19th-century eclecticism. Little is known about the building and its owner: Kotelnikov arrived at the request of the Butiny trading house from the Transbaikal region. After the emperor permitted gold mining in the Amur region, they opened a representative office in Blagoveshchensk. The building was later used as a civil registry office (ZAGS), and subsequently as the residence of the region's Chief Federal Inspector. In 2019 the estate was transferred to the regional local history museum. It houses a permanent exhibition on the history of merchant life from the late 19th to the early 20th century and three exhibition halls for temporary exhibitions.