Petropavlovsky Local History Museum

About museum

The Petropavlovsky Local History Museum was established in 1987 at the initiative of the local history club of the Petropavlovsk school in the Krasnozersky District. Photographs, documents and other materials were prepared for its founding, including materials on the history of the village, its inhabitants and veterans. The museum currently occupies an area of 0.7 ha and offers visitors an ethnography and archaeology hall, a hall of military and labor glory, a hall on the history of the development of education in the village, and a hall on the history of the village of Petropavlovka. The museum displays a handmade sideboard from 1946, a wooden bed from the early 20th century, a collection of ritual embroidered towels (rushnyky), and materials related to the Great Patriotic War and Stalinist repressions. A distinctive feature of the museum is an open-air section where the street of the first settlers, a banya (bathhouse), a smithy, a dugout, a well and two houses have been reconstructed. Inside the houses one can see the interior and everyday life of the late 19th century. Thus, the museum represents a unique work of museological art.