Kyakhta Museum of Local Lore named after Academician V.A.Obruchev
About the company:
Telephone: (30142) 91-235
Address: 671830, Republic of Buryatia, Kyakhta, Lenin St., 49
Trains "Moscow - Ulaanbaatar", "Moscow - Beijing" to the station. "Naushki," then aut. Naushki-Kyakhta (30 km)
Mode of work: * Daily from 9.00 to 17.00, except Monday Attention:
only excursion services by prior arrangement
Entrance fee: * Preschoolers - 1 rub., schoolchildren - 2 rub., students - 3 rub., adults - 4 rub., foreign citizens - 10 rub.
Internet:
www.museum.ru/M1194 - official page
| poster, events and excursions |
| Commemorative dates and annual events: Founding date is 01.01. 1890
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One of the oldest museums in Siberia and the Far East, founded in 1890. Until the 20s of the XX century - the only research institution on the territory of modern Buryatia. The activities of the museum were closely connected with scientists - researchers of Central Asia G.N. and A.V. Potanin, P.K. Kozlov, V.D. Obruchev and local enthusiasts of local history - Yu.D. Talko-Gryntsevich, P.S. Mikhno, etc., which allowed to open a stationary exhibition "Russian geographical discoveries in Central Asia". The Kyakhta Museum is a center of archaeological research on the problems of Xiongnu. The museum has collections: zoological, ethnographic, ornithological. The herbarium of the museum served as the basis for 8 issues of "Flora Transbaikalia". A rare book collection is of great cultural importance. |
Former city school building. The architecture of the facades of the building can be characterized as a belated and naively provincial creation of the architecture of Russian classicism of the XIX century. |
| Main excursions: Sightseeing tour of the halls of the Kyakhta Local History Museum Russian Geographical Discoveries in Central Asia From the history of the Kyakhta Museum and the Troitsk-Kyakhta branch of the RGS. 1890-1990. Buddhism and Christianity in the Objects of Religion Kyakhtin people are participants of the war and workers of the rear. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Nomadism is the past, the present in a global context and historical perspective. Gunnine phenomenon |
Additional services:
kiosk or shop, lecture hall or cinema, public library
Tourist routes:
Ulan-Ude - Ivolginsky datsan - pos. Novoseleginsk - Kyakhta
Ulan-Ude - Kyakhta - Ulaanbaatar
Baikal - Kyakhta - Gobi - Kara Koram
Baikal - Kyakhta - Khubsugul
| professional |
Main officers: *
Director: Zhitikhin Fedor Illarionovich, tel. (30142) 92-333
Head: Alexander Bayartayevich Gendunov, tel. (30142) 92-146
Zav. Department: Filippova Lyubov Andreevna, tel. (30142) 91-235
Zav. Sector: Obukhova Galina Alexandrovna, tel. (30142) 91-235
Headquarters:
(30142) 92-333, Fax: (30142) 91-194
Address:
671830, Republic of Buryatia, Kyakhta, Lenin Street, 49
Opening and foundation dates:
based: 01.01. 1890
Budgetary status:
Russian subject
Organizational and legal form:
non-profit
Type of organization:
cultural, research and educational
Classification of the organization:
Local lore
Areas of organization:
exhibition and exhibition 1200m2
temporary exhibitions 50m2
storage facilities 360m2
parkland 8ga
Number of staff:
46, including 9 scientific
The average number of visitors per year:
8,000
The structure of the organization includes:
archive, scientific library
Superior organization:
Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Republic of Buryatia - R387
Branch or subordinate organization:
Memorial House-Museum of the First Congress of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party - M1195
Memorial House-Museum "Conspiracy Apartment" of Sukhe Bator - M1196
Membership in organizations:
Russian Geographical Society - R404
Russian Federation of Astronautics - R541
Partner organizations:
Museum of Construction History of BAM - M1200
Sponsors, philanthropists and grantors:
Sberbank of Russia, Moscow
Storage units:
100,000, including 70,000 items of fixed capital
| The most valuable (unique) collections: Hungnu Archaeology Collection Ornithological collection Entomological collection Botanical collection Rare book fund - more than 30 thousand units. Collection on Buddhism (bronze sculpture, utensils) Numismatic collection Decorative and applied arts most interesting items of funds |
Major exhibition projects:
"Siberian Portrait." Irkutsk Regional Art Museum
| Publications issued by the organization: Proceedings of the Museum and Geographical Society. 18 volumes Flora Transbaikalia. Together with the All-Union Botanical Society. 8 issues Kyakhta. The guide is M. |
Information taken from www.museum.ru
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