K.V. Ivanov Literary Museum

The museum was opened in October 1940. The creation of the museum of Chuvash literature and art was timed to the 50th anniversary of the birth of the classic of Chuvash literature K.V. Ivanov. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941, the museum was temporarily closed. In 1957, the expositions were reopened in the former house of merchant N. Korytnikov. In 1978, in connection with the construction of the Cheboksary HPP, the museum, which fell into the flood zone, was closed. On May 27, 1990, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of K.V. Ivanov, the Literary Museum was revived in the very center of the city of Cheboksary.