Apastovo Museum of Local History

The museum contains exhibits of different eras. Among them are archaeological and paleontological finds, in particular, tools from the Koprov site of ancient man (bone needles, axes, chop stone hammer), skulls of rhinos, mammoth teeth, a fragment of beluga bone 85 cm long, etc. The history of the village is represented by documents, photographs and objects of the XIX -XX centuries. The section of ethnography introduces household items, lifestyle and skill of Kazan Tatars. A collection of embroidered and homespun towels is presented. A fragment of a peasant’s hut was recreated, where, among other things, a bed made of apple tree of the early twentieth century is exhibited. In addition to Tatar products, the exposition presents Udmurt sights of the early twentieth century. and a unique homespun Bashkir towel of the late XVIII century. The name of the famous Tatar educator, scientist, compiler of the first Tatar explanatory dictionary Zamal Validi (1887-1932), repressed in 1931, is associated with the village of Apastovo. The museum keeps a cupboard, presented to them in 1930 to a rural school (madrasah). The period of the civil war is represented by fragments of weapons, newspaper materials about the struggle against the White-Czechs and the defeat of seven landlord estates. The exposition contains materials about three Figners estates. Among the exhibits of the Great Patriotic War, the acceptance act of defense structures (comps) of 1942 is interesting. From October 1941 to February 1942, more than 300 km of trenches were dug by hand in the Apastov district in case of a breakthrough by the German army. More than 1 million people were involved in the work. Among the documents are materials about three Heroes of the Soviet Union, natives of the region, and about Rear Admiral I. M. Zolin, a participant in the Nuremberg trial, a native of D. Bishevo, Apastov district: photos, including with M. I. Kalinin in 1943, letters to the school museum from 1960 to 1972, etc.