Belebeyevsky Local History Museum

Belebeevsky Museum of Local History was opened in March 1979 – the first director was A.B. Nasyrov, an honorary citizen of Belebey, Honored Worker of Culture of the BASSR.

The museum contains the whole glorious history of the city and the district. Here visitors get acquainted with the monuments of material and spiritual culture of the past and present.

The museum is not only a form of recreation, but also an important means of raising the cultural level. Education of patriotism, internationalism, labor and moral education.

The museum is unique by the variety of collections, the presence of rare exhibits that arouse interest among visitors.

Over the years, the museum has been visited by more than 400,000 people. The museum has 33,000 exhibits.

The most valuable exhibits are exhibited in the exhibition halls:

• "Nature and animal world of Belebeevsky district".

• "The Ethnography of Our Land."

• "Belebeevsky district in the XVIII-XIX centuries"

• "Belebeevsky at the beginning of the XX century"

• "Belebey during the Great Patriotic War" (1941-1945)

• VI-VII. "Modern Belebey."

• "Lecture hall"

• "Exhibition Hall"

In the hall "Nature and the animal world" visitors get acquainted with the natural and climatic features of the Bugulma-Belebeyevsky hill, on which the city of Belebey is located.

The dioramas of the hall represent typical animals of the region: lynx, fox, columns, badger, elk, hare, wolf, squirrel ... The world of birds of our region is widely represented. In general, the hall is focused on introductory perception and educational excursion.

In the hall of ethnography, visitors see objects of everyday life, applied art of the peoples inhabiting our region: Bashkirs, Russians, Tatars, Chuvash.

In this hall there is a decorative image of the Bashkir nomad, yurt, Chuvash chicken hut with their inherent attributes.

The constant interest of visitors is caused by the tools of the past, a showcase with costumes of the Tatar, Bashkir, Russian, Chuvash population.

“Belebeevsky district in the XVIII-XIX centuries” in this hall, the visitor can make a kind of journey, a kind of walk, through the old Belebey with an abundance of strong merchant houses, look into one of the rooms of such a house, as well as into the merchant’s shop. The peculiar appearance of Belebey of that time comes to life on old postcards, photographs, graphic works.

Materials about the Aksakov family, who lived in the village of Nadezhdino, A.P. Chekhov, who was treated in the county, about the rudiments of industry in Belebey and the county, the uprising of Pugachev and much more draw the appearance and spirit of a provincial town that wrote its pages in the history of the republic and Russia.

The patriotic theme continues the hall “Belebeevsky district in the early XX century” from the alarming 1905 to 1922. Where photographs, maps of pre-revolutionary Belebey, materials revealing the revolutionary pages of the region are exhibited. Here you can see a printing press, made in Germany in 1913, in display cases of weapons from the Civil War.

Photos of old buildings, where the headquarters of the Chapaev division was located, the building where D.A. Furmanov spoke with a lecture on the Paris Commune, the newspaper Our Way, published by the Czech writer J. Hasek.

The materials of this hall are rich and unique in their documentation and authenticity.

The expositions of the hall of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 will tell you about the contribution of the Belebeans to the victory over Nazi Germany.

On the warfields fought 21,400 of our countrymen, including 395 women. During the war, 11 Belarusians became Heroes of the Soviet Union, and four became full knights of the soldier's order of Glory.

About each of them tell the exposition of the hall.

Battle of Stalingrad. It tells the diorama, where the actor is the chief of staff of the 64th army, Lieutenant-General I.A. Laskin, who captured Field Marshal Paulus in Stalingrad. Materials about the 124th separate rifle brigade of Colonel S.F. Gorokhov, formed in the Belebeevsky district in 1941.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army during the Second World War Marshal of the Soviet Union B.M. Shaposhnikov. Attention is drawn to the personal belongings of the largest military commander of the XX century: compass, magnifying glass, pen, etc. Interesting photos captured episodes of his work in the General Staff, meetings with prominent statesmen. The uniforms of the Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel-General N.M. Khlebnikov, a participant in the Victory Parade N.I. Tezikov, will not be ignored.

The exposition is dedicated to the only female Hero of the Soviet Union M.G. Syrtlanova in Bashkiria. The whole country knows about the contribution to the Great Victory of the 46th Women's Night Bomber Regiment. During the Patriotic War, M.G. Syrtlanova made 782 sorties.

On December 12, 1942, Belebey witnessed an extraordinary event. In a remote provincial town, covered with snow, sounded immortal, predicting the death of fascism Seventh (Leningrad) symphony of Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich performed by a brass band under the leadership of I.V. Petrov. The author was present at the concert. D.D. Shostakovich was surprised and amazed - the brass orchestra so skillfully conveyed the finest shades of the work. The great composer expressed his sincere gratitude to the orchestra and conductor.

Numerous relics donated to the museum by veterans of the Great Patriotic War serve as a constant reminder for posterity of the courage and bravery of our countrymen during the difficult war years.

In the same hall there are expositions about the participants of local wars in the Republic of Chechnya and military operations in Afghanistan.

Hero of Russia A.A. Romanov is dedicated to a separate exposition. In 2005, it was replenished with new documents and items, personal belongings of the Colonel-General.

Belebeyevtsy remember their heroic general and are proud of him - the first Hero of Russia among countrymen.

The formation and development of our city in peacetime is dedicated to the "Modern Belebey" hall. This hall illuminates the life of industrial enterprises of all sectors of the economy: drillers, oil producers and machine builders. These labor collectives are told by existing expositions, product samples, documents, photographs.

Widely represented advanced production, orders.

Belebeyevtsy are proud of their famous countrymen: People's Artist of the USSR I.M. Churikova, world-class pianist laureate of the most prestigious International Competitions V.P. Ovchinnikov.

44 residents of our city were awarded the title "Honorary citizen of Belebea"

Four countrymen were awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor: B.I. Petrov, M.S. Khabibullin, now living T.L. Katkov, M.V. Shinkov.

The exposition dedicated to the history of Belebey and Belebeyevsky district is especially noteworthy.

The staff of the museum is small, hardworking, knowledgeable. Among them, for many years, senior researcher N.I. Golubkova, chief curator E.I. Fedin, guide N.A. Khasanova, caretaker F.T. Gizatullina have been working in the museum. The twenty-third year is headed by the museum director P.A. Fedin Honorary local historian of the Republic of Belarus.