East Siberian Museum of Soil Science named after I.V. Nikolaev ISU

The East Siberian Museum of Soil Science named after I.V. Nikolaev ISU receives visitors from the twenty-seventh of May one thousand nine hundred ninety-third year. The museum employs two employees and two researchers. The museum collection includes more than five thousand two hundred items, four thousand items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The expositions reflect the uniqueness and diversity of landscapes and soil cover of Eastern Siberia, the evolution of soil in the Quaternary period and archaeological finds. Micromonoliths represent the soils of many regions of Russia, Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The museum exhibits soil fauna, soil-forming rocks, agronomic ores of pre-Baikal, the history of soil science and the development of land resources of the Irkutsk region. The museum also stores data on soil scientists working in Eastern Siberia, reflects their scientific contributions to the study of the region. The East Siberian Museum of Soil Science named after I.V. Nikolaev ISU operates in the form of a non-profit institution in the field of natural and fundamental sciences, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activity the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit received between participants. The East Siberian Museum of Soil Science named after I.V. Nikolaev ISU is an organization of municipal subordination. The main activities of the museum: research and educational. The main priorities of the museum are scientific work and development of educational programs on its basis.