Bugulma Local History Museum

Bugulma Museum of Local Lore, one of the oldest in the republic, was opened on October 1, 1929. The museum displays the history of the city since its inception in 1736. The main interior complexes are materials of the Pugachev uprising, Bugulma fairs of the XIX century, periods of civil and Great Patriotic Wars, documents on the history of the city of the XVIII - XX centuries, rare household items of Tatars, Mordvas, Chuvash, Russian.

Among the materials about the peasant war of 1773 - 1775 under the leadership of Emelyan Pugachev there are unique exhibits: a cannon, weapons of the peasant war, a book describing military operations near Bugulma, the manifesto of E. Pugachev.

In the section "Bugulma XIX - early XX century." exhibited household items of various estates of Tatars, Russians, Mordovians, Chuvash. Jewelry of Kazan Tatars is admired - amazing ease of sloping stones, collar fasteners decorated with various stones, woven towels, embroidered headdresses, waist jewelry. They convey to us the ideals of national beauty, make us proud of the skill of our ancestors.

Among the rarities in the exposition are materials from the KGB archives about the dekulakization in the Bugulma district, a telegram signed by Stalin to the collective farmers of the Bugulma district, newspapers, battle sheets of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

Rich and diverse nature of Bugulma district. The nature department features a rare collection of butterflies, tusks and mammoth teeth. Here you can get acquainted with the animal, plant world of the region, see a stuffed wolf, eagle, woodcock, other inhabitants of forests and steppes.

The leading place in the collections of the museum is occupied by written sources. Among the earliest relics are the journals of meetings of the Bugulma district Zemstvo Assembly, Muslim ethics, the city plan of 1834, the parish chronicle of the City-Bugulma Cathedral.

Ethnographic material is multifaceted. These are clothes of different peoples, household utensils, samovars, jewelry. They convey to us information about the occupations of ancestors, trade routes, traditions of the people.

The names of many famous writers, scientists, artists are associated with Bugulma. V.A. Zhukovsky, A.S. Pushkin write about Bugulma. During the Great Patriotic War, Alexei Batalov, the future People’s Artist of the USSR, lived here in the evacuation with his mother N.A. Olshevskaya and two younger brothers. In 2008, the Bugulma Russian Drama Theatre was named after A.V. Batalov.

In 1941, Marshal of the Soviet Union K.E. Voroshilov visited Bugulma, in 1937 - Otto Yulyevich Schmidt. In Bugulma studied Nadezhda Kadysheva, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, was born Alsu Safina, winner of Eurovision 2000, Nikolai Kolesnikov, Olympic champion 1976.