N.K. Boshnyak District Local History Museum

About museum

On March 29, 1966 the Museum named after N. K. Boshnyak was established. Since the beginning of the last century people from various parts of the country came to the shore of the Tatar Strait both voluntarily and involuntarily. Many of them settled here permanently, and each passing day became part of the town's history. In 1953 Semen Timofeyevich Smetanin, an instructor of the city committee of the CPSU, began collecting the first materials on the town's history. He later became director of the city's cinema network, an honored cultural worker of the RSFSR, and a member of the Russian Geographical Society. In 2000 the Council of Deputies gave the Sovetsko-Gavansky District Local History Museum the name of the discoverer of the Imperial (Soviet) harbor, Nikolai Konstantinovich Boshnyak. The museum houses collections of fine art, decorative and applied arts, numismatics, archaeology, ethnography, photo-documentary and natural science materials, as well as the "History of Technology" and "Everyday Life" collections.