All-Russian Memorial Museum-Reserve of V.M. Shukshin

V.M. Shukshin Memorial Museum in Srotki was founded in 1977 on the basis of the decision of the Altai Regional Council of Workers' Deputies of 19.08.1977 No. 276/2 as a branch of the local history museum of the Altai Territory.

Open to the public on July 25, 1978. In 1992, it was transformed into the State Historical and Memorial Reserve of V.M. Shukshin on the basis of the Resolution of the Committee of the Administration of the Altai Territory on Culture of 12.03.92 No. 27-r. In 1999, by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 22.07.99 No. 1137-r was renamed into the All-Russian Memorial Museum-Reserve of V.M. Shukshin.

The very idea of creating a museum for a writer who so accurately and unmistakably depicted the soul of the people in its deepest sense is a phenomenon of a high order. This idea was embodied by the efforts of true connoisseurs of V.M. Shukshin’s creativity and hundreds of selfless donors, dozens of ascetics, enthusiasts. The organizers of the museum were Daria Ilyinichna Faleeva, head of the Biysky District Library, Nadezhda Alekseevna Yadykina, head of the Srostinskaya High School, organizer of the school museum V.M. Shukshin, Lidia Ivanovna Muravinska, associate professor of the Biysk Pedagogical Institute, head of the V.M. Shukshin Museum at the Institute, Tamara Ivanovna Varaksina, researcher at the Museum of Local History of the Altai Territory, curator of the memorial museum V.M. Shukshin, later from the history of literature and the museum.