Kuzebai Gerda House-Museum

House-Museum Kuzebay Gerda - a branch of the Vavozhsky District Museum of Local Lore is constantly working since the thirteenth of June one thousand nine hundred ninety-eighth year. One employee works on the preservation and development of the museum collection. The collection of the museum includes more than two hundred and fifty-one items, ninety-six items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. Kuzebay Gerd (Kuzma Pavlovich Chainikov, 1898-1937) - poet and prose writer, playwright and actor, public figure and teacher, folklorist and ethnographer, linguist and critic. An intellectual from a peasant family. A person who is a star of the first magnitude in the Udmurt national culture. The museum building was moved from der. Big Docja in the der. Gurez Pudgu in 1967. In 1960-80-ies was the educational building of the Gurez-Pudgin secondary school. In the 1990s, on the initiative of Egorov A.M., the school director, a school museum began to be created. In 1998, during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gerda, its grand opening took place. In 2000, the museum became a branch of the Vavozhsky District Museum of Local History. The uniqueness of the museum is that Kuzebay Gerd studied, lived and worked as a teacher in this building in 1920-21. The museum has ethnographic halls that reveal the way of life and life of the Udmurts of the Dokja family of the late XIX - early XX centuries. Excursions of the museum tell about the life and creative path of K. Gerda, reveal the significance of his works in the national and universal culture. Excursions are held in two languages - Udmurt and Russian. Kuzebay Gerda House-Museum - a branch of the Vavozhsky District Museum of Local Lore works in the form of a non-profit institution of historical specialization, 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 the participants. Kuzebay Gerda House-Museum - a branch of the Vavozhsky District Museum of Local History is an organization of municipal subordination. The museum is primarily engaged in cultural activities.