Kanash

Kanash Museum of Local History

Railway street, 85, Kanash

About the company:

Telephone: (83533) 4-1711

Address: 429300, Republic of Chuvashia, Kanash, St. Railway, 63-a

Travel: 500 m from the bus station and railway station Kanash

Mode of work: * Daily from 8.00 to 17.00, except Monday Attention:
only excursion services by prior arrangement

Entrance fee: * Adult - 4 rubles, students - 3 rubles, schoolchildren - 2 rubles. Excursion - 1 rub per person

Internet:
www.museum.ru/M1341 - official page

 

 

 

 

poster, events and excursions

 

 

 

 

 

Commemorative dates and annual events:
Opening date is 20.02. 1969
May 9- Victory Day.
February 23Defender of the Fatherland Day
May 18- Museum Day.
October 1- Old man's day.
24 June- Statehood Day of the Chuvash Republic
April 25- Chuvash Language Day
November 16- Mikhail Sespel's birthday

 

 

Description:

The museum opened on February 20, 1969. From 1988 to April 1991, the museum was closed for overhaul and re-exposition. There are three halls in the museum: in the first there is also a department of ethnography, in which you can get acquainted with the Chuvash national clothes, jewelry, trace the history of the district by clothing, photo and documentary materials, in the second - the nature department, in the third - the exhibition hall - the only one in the city, in the hall various exhibitions of artists, masters of decorative and applied arts, exhibitions for memorable dates, anniversaries are arranged. Various events are also held: presentations, meetings with interesting people, museum gatherings.

 

 

 

Founder: Sinitsyn Sergey Maksimovich (1910-1990)

 

 

 

 

Main excursions:
Sightseeing tour of the Kanash Local History Museum
Excursion to the Department of Nature of the Kanash Local History Museum
Excursion to the Department of Ethnography of the Kanash Local History Museum
I.Yakovlev - the great son of the Chuvash people
Chuvash poet Mikhail Sespel
Heart pierced by a bullet (about Konstantin Koltsov)
Canash and Canash during the Second World War
Heroes of the Soviet Union - our countrymen
Canned yesterday, today, tomorrow
City streets tell
City monuments


Educational services:
A circle of "museum gatherings", whose classes are held 1 time a month according to a separate plan.

There are:
hotels and group meals

Local attractions:
The house in which during V.O.V. the evacuation hospital No. 3062 was located (Kanash, Hospitalnachnaya St., 12, now Pavlova St., 1941-1945)
The house in which during V.O.V. evacuation hospital No. 3070 (Kanash, Pushkin Street, 14, 1941-1945, now the House of Children's Creativity)
The house in which during V.O.V. evacuation hospital No. 3070 (Kanash, Pushkin Street, 21, 1941-1945, now school No. 8, former No. 3, then No. 61)
Fraternal Cemetery (11 graves) of Soviet soldiers who died from wounds in hospitals in Kanash (Kanash cemetery, 1941-1945)
The mass grave of 11 fighters for the strengthening of Soviet power who died during the kulak-SR revolt in 1921 (Svoboda Street, 1921)
The building of the teachers' seminary (161 Zheleznodorozhnaya Street, former state bank, 1914)
Water tower railway station Kanash-East, 1925
Water tower railway station Kanash-West, 1892

 

 

 

 

 

professional


Main officers: *
Director: Natalia Pavlovna Samoilova, tel. (83533) 4-1711
Main Guardian: Shmonina Nadezhda Konstantinovna
Guide: Afanasyeva Tatiana Anatolievna

Headquarters:
(83533) 4-1711

Address:
429300, Chuvashia Republic, Kanash, St. Railway, 63-a

Opening and foundation dates:
open: 20.02. 1969

Budgetary status:
Municipal

Organizational and legal form:
non-profit

Type of organization:
cultural and research

Classification of the organization:
Local lore

Areas of organization:
exhibition and exhibition 160m2
temporary exhibitions 60m2
storage facilities 7m2

Number of staff:
5 of them are scientific

The average number of visitors per year:
4800


Superior organization:
Department of Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of Kanash - R1414

Partner organizations:
The Chuvash National Museum of the Ministry of Culture of Chuvashia - M1336

Sponsors, philanthropists and grantors:
Kanash businesses
City Department of Social Protection
City administration
Individuals - city artists


Storage units:
4968, of which 4,466 items of fixed assets

 

 

 

 

 

The most valuable (unique) collections:
Numismatic subjects - 850 units.
Subjects of ethnography - 357 units.
Materials about the Chuvash poet M. Sespel - 63 units.
Materials about the Chuvash poet K. Koltsov - 117 units.

most interesting items of funds


Visiting and exchange exhibitions:
"City History Pages." Photo exhibition
Photo albums about the history of the city, about the best people of the city
"For life on earth." Photo exhibition

 

 

 

 

 


Information taken from www.museum.ru

 

 

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