Exhibition 'Chuvashia in the 20th Century'

About exhibition

The artistic concept of the hall is based on the main theme of this period: the rise of the Chuvash people from the plow to space. Over 70 years an agrarian, non-Russian province where agriculture was carried out by primitive methods transformed into a republic with highly developed industry, mechanized agriculture, and an advanced culture. A native of Chuvashia, A. G. Nikolayev, became the third Soviet cosmonaut. The exhibition presents materials revealing the formation of the Chuvash Republic: the museum's first exhibits collected by director M. Petrov-Tinekhpi, materials on the creation of the first national film studio 'Chuvashkino', and materials about the first industrial enterprises—the Kozlovsky house-building plant and the Shumerlya wood-processing combine. During the Great Patriotic War, the relocation of evacuated enterprises and the establishment of local defense production contributed to the transformation of agrarian Chuvashia into an agro-industrial region. The most striking event in the postwar history of Chuvashia was the space flight of A. G. Nikolayev, which is given the central place in the exhibition. It concludes with the interior of a room in a small-family dormitory whose residents still had not received separate apartments by the year 2000.