Pudoga Historical and Local Lore Museum named after A.F.Korablev

On June 21, 2011, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the State Historical, Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve “Kizhi” and the municipality “Pudoga Municipal District”. Kizhi Museum is a long-standing partner of cultural, educational and district administration institutions. Dozens of exhibitions, meetings and other joint events were held. Contacts with the A.F.Korablyov Pudoga Historical and Local Lore Museum are successfully developing. In the Pudoga Museum, exhibitions of the Kizhi Museum were demonstrated: “The World of Folk Culture”, “Kizhi”. Seasons", "Chooks over reality", "Journey to the country of two epics", "The Moment of Life", "Archaeology of Kizhey", "Irina Andreevna Fedosova - a captivator and poetess". In Petrozavodsk, a partner exhibition project “Merchant’s Pudozh” was implemented. As part of the exhibition activities of the Kizhi Museum, materials from the collections of the Pudoga Museum are used (for example, at the 2011 exhibition). “The weaving of the Olonets province. Late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries”).

The Pudoga Museum of Local History was founded by Alexander Fedotovich Korablev (1906-1981), a teacher of history and geography, local historian. For several decades he collected objects reflecting the history of his native land. The main fund of the museum is the collection of A.F.Korablev, consisting of more than 7 thousand items. In 1997 the museum was named after its founder. Today, the museum funds more than 12 thousand documents, rare books, ethnography, works of applied art, numismatics, archaeology. Currently, the museum has a permanent exhibition “Historical Pudozh”. Thanks to the unique fund, the museum organizes events that attract a large number of visitors: the museum and educational program “Our Pudoga Region” was developed, the historical and local history conference “Korablev Readings” is held annually, master classes, exhibitions of masters of decorative and applied arts (products made of birch bark, clay, beading, wood carving, sewing, weaving, etc. are presented). The museum organizes excursions to the historical part of the city ("Old Pudoga") and the Pudoga district (in the village of Kubovskaya for the holiday of the "Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God", in the village of Pyalma for the "Ilyin Day", to the Kochkovnavolok peninsula, to the petroglyphs of the Besov nose, to the Murom monastery). In order to get acquainted with the culture and sights and within the framework of a tripartite agreement between the Pudoga, Kargopol and Vytegorsky districts, outbound excursions are made to Kargopol, Arkhangelsk region and Vytegra, Vologda region.