Museum of the First Council

The museum is located in a historical place, in the building of the Philistine Council. This building was built in 1904 according to the project of engineer P.D. Afanasyev for the local self-government body – the petty-bourgeois government. In May 1905, the first city-wide Soviet of Workers’ Deputies in Russia was held here, created during the general political strike of the Ivanovo-Ascension workers. Since 1919, the building of the Meshchansk administration housed various institutions, then communal apartments. In 1967, the building was transferred to the Regional Directorate of Culture and on November 4, 1967 a museum dedicated to the first Soviet of Workers' Deputies was opened here. In 1981, the museum was re-exposed and the memorial atmosphere of the philistine government of the early XX century, which existed until 1990, was restored. Then, for several years, the permanent exhibition “Man” functioned in the museum. Soul. Spirituality. In the late 1990s, the museum was again closed for re-exposition. In 2005, the 100th anniversary of the events of the first Russian revolution and the first city-wide council of workers' deputies in Ivanovo-Voznesensk was celebrated. In May, the third birth of the Museum of the First Council took place. During the reconstruction of the museum, materials from the collection of the famous Ivanovo collector and philanthropist D. G. Burylin, numerous photo materials from private collections, as well as documents from the State Archives of the Ivanovo region were used.