Exhibition hall in Ruzaevka
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Ruzaev Museum of Local Lore, a branch of the Mordovian Republican United Museum of Local Lore named after I.D. Voronin, was established in 1967. The first head of the museum was S.D. Belyakov. From 1967 to 1975, the Ruzaev Museum of Local Lore was located in the red corner of the Water and Repair Section of the Ruzaev Railway. In 1975, the museum was provided with a wooden one-storey building of the former school, built in 1902 at the expense of the railway station Ruzaevka. In 1905, the strike committee of railway workers of the Ruzaev Republic met here, so the building was recognized as a historical monument of republican significance.
On September 16, 1976, on the basis of the concept developed by researchers of the Mordovian Republican United Museum of Local History, the exposition of the Ruzaev branch was opened.
Funds of the museum include ethnographic items, material and written sources on the history of the city and district, "Ruzaev Republic", paintings by famous Mordovian artists.
On September 11, 1804, the future poet A.I. Polezhaev was born in the Struisky estate. He was the son of Leonty Struysky and a serf peasant, who was married to the Saran philistine I.I. Polezhayev, which gave Alexander Ivanovich Polezhayev an opportunity to get an education at Moscow University. The name of the poet A.I. Polezhayev is captured in the names of the streets, his poetic heritage is studied in schools, writers and playwrights devote their works to him, and the museum exposition presents materials testifying to the difficult fate of our wonderful countryman, a portrait of A.I. Polezhayev by the famous Mordovian artist I.I. Sidelnikov.
Ruzaevka is rightly called the cradle of the working class of Mordovia, one of the largest railway hubs in Russia. In 1905, the Ruzaev Republic was created here, which lasted only 12 days, but left a vivid memory. And now lives in the hearts of Ruzaev people admiration for the heroism and dedication of our great-grandfathers. Part of the exhibition hall is dedicated to the events of 1905