Volgodon Ecological and Historical Museum

Volgodonsk Ecological and Historical Museum today is the largest state museum in the eastern region of the Rostov region. It is one of the youngest and fastest growing.

It was founded in 1969 as a city museum.

Today, the collection of the museum has more than 110 thousand museum items. In an extensive archaeological collection - finds from ancient burial mounds of steppe nomadic tribes; items from the excavations of medieval fortresses (Sarkel - White Vezhha, Right-bank Tsimlyansk settlement, Semikarakor settlement).

The collection of the museum presents items of spiritual and material culture of the Don Cossacks and other peoples who inhabited the territory of the Don region; materials on the Civil War on the Don and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, including authentic material about the brutally executed by the German fascist invaders of the soldiers of the guerrilla detachment of the Stanitsa Romanovskaya Volgodonsky district.

A unique collection of icon paintings of the XVI – early XX century was formed. The museum has a magnificent collection of paintings by the People's Artist of the USSR Ivan Andreevich Yazev, a native of the village of Romanovskaya Volgodonskaya district of the Rostov region.

Along with the traditional forms of scientific and educational activities of the museum - excursions, lectures, thematic events, the creation of exhibitions, theatrical performances of historical, ethnographic and environmental orientation with video presentations have been very popular in recent years.