Museum of Russian-Armenian Friendship

Rostov Regional Museum of Local History was opened on May 1, 1910 as the City Museum of Rostov-on-Don.

Currently, the museum collection includes more than 350 thousand museum items representing the history and rich cultural heritage of the Don region.

Since the modern city of Rostov-on-Don unites two previously independent cities of Rostov-on-Don (founded in 1749) and the city of Nakhichevan-on-Don (founded in 1779), it was decided to establish the Museum of Russian-Armenian Friendship, its opening took place on November 25, 2011.

The museum is located in a two-storey mansion of merchant M. Iskidarov, which is an architectural monument. On the second floor of the building there is an exposition “New Shelter on the Don Land”, dedicated to the history of the resettlement of Armenians from the Crimea to the Don in 1779, the formation of the Novo-Nakhchivan colony, the history of the city of Nakhichevan-on-Don.

On the first floor of the museum there are exhibition halls, with constantly changing exhibitions of fine, decorative and applied arts.