Ural Geological Museum of Mining University

The Ural Geological Museum is one of the largest mineralogical museums in Russia, which presents stone documents of exclusively Ural origin. The best that the nature of the Urals has given for many decades is concentrated in these collections.

Geological and mining enterprises of the Urals took part in the creation of the museum expositions, making it one of the best regional museums in the world.

The pride of the museum was the so-called The Golden Room opened to the public in November 2005. For the first time in the Urals, collections of green beryls, emeralds and alexandrites of the Malyshevskoye deposit (the largest collection in the world) are demonstrated. Collections of native gold, platinum, demantoids, samples of Ural diamonds and a rare crystal of euclase are presented.

Among the statesmen in the museum were Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Tse Dong, Prime Minister of India Jawaharlar Nehru and Indira Gandhi, leader of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, President of the Republic of Indonesia Sukarno, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N.I. Ryzhkov, President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin.