Yei State Historical and Shrine Museum

Yeisky Local History Museum is one of the oldest museums in Kuban. It was created on the fifth of May 1920 on the basis of the collections of the city museum of visual teaching aids, which existed in Yeisk since March 1910. In 2000, the museum was named after Vladimir Vasilyevich Samsonov, a well-known local historian, director of the museum from 1929 to 1962.
By 1941, the museum kept and exhibited more than five and a half thousand items of spiritual and material culture. During the occupation of the city by the Nazi invaders (August 1942 – February 1943), the museum collections were completely lost. The revival of the museum began with seven miracles of surviving exhibits.
Currently, the museum has collections of more than 50 thousand items of storage. Among them: materials of archaeological and ethnographic expeditions, documents, photographs, awards, weapons, numismatic collections, art works of domestic and foreign masters.
The exposition of the museum gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the nature and history of the North-Eastern Azov region.
The nature section represents a numerous collection of stuffed fish, animals and birds living in the Azov region. Dioramic triptych allows you to get acquainted with the most typical landscapes of the region and see rare and endangered species of birds and marine life.
Kuban lands from ancient times attracted people with their fertility. Various tribes and peoples left traces of their habitat here. The ancient history of the Azov region is represented by tools of labor of the Stone Age, combat equipment of warlike nomads - Scythians and Sarmatians, products of Greek and Meotic masters, weapons, funerary equipment and stone sculptures of the Polovtsy, Khazars, Pechenegs, unique Nogai things ...
The further fate of the Nei land is connected with the Black Sea Cossacks.
The history of the development of the “well-acquired Motherland”, a kind of everyday life, hardships and heroics of the Cossack service are told by documents, utensils, tools, weapons, awards, photographs and traditional clothes of the Cossack population of the XVIII – early XX centuries.
In 1848, with the light hand of the brightest Prince M. S. Vorontsov, the port city of Yeisk was born on the shore of the Sea of Azov. Various exhibits: postcards and photographs, tools of artisans and product samples, household items and documents recreate the image of the city as one of the major ports, commercial, industrial and cultural center of the South of Russia.
The next section of the exposition attracts attention with a collection of posters from the Civil War, materials from the period of the first five-year plans, unique exhibits on the history of aviation and the first Russian school of naval pilots.
The heroic years of the Great Patriotic War are a special page in the history of the country. Priceless relics of those terrible years invariably attract the attention of visitors. Samples of weapons and paintings, combat and labor awards of nychants, thirty of which received the title
The hero of the Soviet Union, personal belongings of privates and generals tell about the city and its people - participants in the national feat.
The exposition ends with a section dedicated to the modern life of the city and the district.
Every year the museum holds more than 20 exhibitions, both from its own funds and from the collections of other museums and private collectors of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don. Every year, exhibitions are held dedicated to the sheichans - outstanding figures of science, culture, art, famous military leaders, cosmonauts, including S. Bondarchuk, N. Mordyukova, V. Dzhanibekov, and many others.