Uisky District Museum of Local History

The Uysk Museum of Local Lore became one of the first rural museums in the Chelyabinsk region, it was established in 1922. The first director was Alexei Mironovich Krylov.

The museum has three departments: nature, pre-revolutionary past, Soviet and present time. The nature department shows the animal world (stuffed) and vegetation of the Ui district. The department of the pre-revolutionary past reflects the history of the Uyskaya Stanitsa of the XVIII - early XX century. Of particular interest are books of religious content, numismatic items, a collection of ceramic dishes, samovars. The third section reflects the period of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the post-war development of the district. Interesting exhibits such as an iron plow - a Saban, gramophones, a model of a T-34 tank, a homemade motorcycle in 1933, things, documents of participants in the Great Patriotic War and home front workers, photo documents of participants in the wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

The Ui Museum of Local Lore systematically holds exhibitions of works by craftsmen of the Ui district, collectors, photographers, artists. There are exhibitions outside the museum (to the Day of the Uysky District, at the Regional Festival of Cossack Song, in the district schools). Of great interest to visitors is the traveling exhibitions of the Chelyabinsk regional photo club "Stone belt".