Surgut Local History Museum

About museum

\r\nThe Surgut Local History Museum is one of the city's oldest cultural institutions. It was founded in 1963 by a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and of labor, an honorary citizen of Surgut, and an Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR — Flegont Yakovlevich Pokazanyev. For a long time the museum was located in the wooden house of Stepanovich Klepikov (7 Prosveshcheniya St.). Since 1997 the museum has been headed by Marina Yuryevna Selyanina, and in 1999 it was relocated to a new three-story building of the Museum Center. On June 11, 2005, the Klepikov House was opened, becoming the museum's first structural subdivision. It is the only 19th-century historical and architectural monument in Surgut that has been preserved in its original location. The house presents interior sketches of urban life from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. It is an object of cultural heritage for the peoples of Russia. Under the leadership of M. Yu. Selyanina, the Surgut Local History Museum became one of the leading museums of Yugra.