S. T. Aksakov Garden

About museum

The history of the municipal unitary enterprise "S. T. Aksakov Garden of Culture and Recreation" dates back to the 18th century, when the parents of the writer S. T. Aksakov acquired an estate with an orchard in Golubina Sloboda. It was in this house that Sergey Timofeyevich was born on September 20, 1791. After his grandfather's death the family moved to live at the S. T. Aksakov Museum. The house where the writer was born was destroyed by a fire in 1821. Afterwards the estate was repeatedly sold and passed into the hands of various owners. In 1889 Vasily Ilyich Vidineev built a summer theatre, and in 1989, by decree No. 058 of the Council of Ministers of the Bashkir ASSR, the garden was renamed the S. T. Aksakov Garden. Since then it has been a monument of architecture and urban planning and is intended to satisfy the cultural, physical, and spiritual needs of the population. In 2002 mute swans were brought to the garden to further enhance its beauty.