Russia · Nizhny Tagil
The Museum Factory in Nizhny Tagil was founded in January of 1989. The Museum is based on the territory of non-operated Kuibyshev Metallurgical Plant. The decommissioning of Kuibyshev Metallurgical Plant, started in 1960s, was accomplished in 1987.
Kuibyshev Metallurgical Plant took the place of the ironworks, owned by Nikolay Demidov, which had...
Volga River · Russia · Gorodets
In 2010, the Gorodets Museum of Regional Studies (the Museum, for short) celebrated its 90th anniversary. The history of the Museum started in February of 1920, when the first floor of the house in Leninskaya Street (formerly belonged to the merchant I. Oblayev) hosted the first permanent exhibition.
Many years have passed since that time; today...
Kama River · Russia · Aleksandrovsk
The museum house of Boris Pasternak was formerly owned by a manager of factories in the village of Vsevolodo-Vilva (a village in Aleksandrovsk district, Perm region). The young poet and future author of Doctor Zhivago and Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak lived here for about six months, since January till the end of June of 1916.
After that th...