Shirinsky District Local History Museum named after D.S. Laletin

About museum

The founder of the Shirinsky District Local History Museum was Dmitry Semyonovich Laletin, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a geography teacher and the head of the school museum. On November 3, 1977, the first collections were presented at the local village club named after S. M. Kirov. Today visitors can view halls such as 'Nature', 'Archaeology', 'Labor Glory', 'Military Glory', 'Traditional Russian Chamber', 'Yurt', 'Tashtyk Crypt', and 'Planetarium'. The 'Archaeology' hall displays interesting collections from excavations in the Shirinsky district, and the 'Yurt' shows the everyday life of the local population. In the 'Tashtyk Crypt' one can learn about the burial practices of nomadic tribes. In addition, the museum preserves documents from the period of the district's formation, the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. Here you can see mammoth bones, a rhinoceros from the pre-glacial period, as well as tools used by people who lived on this territory more than 34,000 years ago.