District Local History Museum of the urban-type settlement Evensk

About museum

In 1967, Yuri Vasilyevich Petrov, a history teacher at the Severo-Evenskaya School, organized the research club "Fakel" (Torch), which marked the beginning of local history studies in the district. The pupils investigated the history of the establishment of the first Soviet (Council) in the Gizhigin Uyezd, as well as accounts of the campaign of the Red Army "Chubarovtsy", and collected a large body of documentary material on the subject. In 1981 the Evensk Settlement Council of People's Deputies decided to establish a settlement local history museum, and methodologists from AKB uncovered substantial material on the ethnography and culture of the peoples of the North. However, a lack of space and proper conditions for storing exhibits led to the loss of many valuable documents and items. In 1992 a decree was issued to transfer the district local history museum to the balance of the Department of Culture, and since then it has been the main repository of monuments of material and spiritual culture of the Severo-Evensky district, where visitors can learn about the settlement's history from the time it was developed by the first pioneers.