Military-Historical Museum of the Pacific Fleet

About museum

In October 1945 the command of the Pacific Fleet and the Primorsky Regional Committee of the CPSU decided to create a museum of fleet history. Lieutenant Colonel Boris Aleksandrovich Sushkov was the project's initiator and the museum's first director. He and his subordinates carried out extensive work collecting exhibits from the Russian Museum in Port Arthur, as well as through scientific expeditions to Kamchatka, the Commander Islands and the Kurils. The museum's collections received exhibits related to the history of the development of the Far East, as well as items from the period of the 1945 war with Japan. In April 1950 the exhibition installation was completed. On April 21 Rear Admiral N. G. Kuznetsov signed an order to open the museum on May 9 in the building of the former Lutheran church at 14 Pushkinskaya Street. In 1997 the museum was moved to a building of historical and architectural significance. Between 1998 and 2002 repair works were carried out, and in 2003 the arrangement of the exhibitions began. As a result, on May 9, 2005 the museum was reopened to visitors.