Historical, Memorial and Ethnographic Complex of Gayaz Ishaki

Gayaz Iskhaki (1878-1954) - outstanding Tatar prose writer, playwright, publicist. In 1919 he emigrated from Russia, lived in Europe and Asia, and was buried in Istanbul. The museum is open in the writer’s homeland.

The museum complex is located on an area of 25x50 sq.m. and includes a preserved two-storey house made of red brick, built in 1910 and associated with the biography of G. Ishaki's sister - Faridabanu.

The territory is divided into two parts: a memorial zone recreating the environment in which Gayaz Iskhaki grew up (late XIX-XX centuries) and a zone that museumifies and exhibits material from the post-revolutionary period of the writer’s life and work.

The residential house, cut down from wood, is a six-wall size of 6x16 m. The roof is iron, galvanized. Particular attention is paid to the restoration of outbuildings, including a warm barn, a pantry, a barn cut from wood, a cold barn built from boards, a well 15 meters deep.

The exposition of the museum complex includes: a trade shop, the house of G. Iskhaki, a theater exposition, outbuildings, a gallery.