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Petrun Historical and Ethnographic Museum

Resp. Komi, Inta, Petrun, Sorvacheva St., 26

About the company:

The Petrun Historical and Ethnographic Museum opened on January 1, 1992 in a specially built wooden two-storey building. Funds have more than 2,500 items.

The scope of the museum is the study and promotion of the natural, social and cultural history of the village. The institution is engaged in the collection, study and storage of museum collections, scientific and scientific and educational work.

The exposition of the museum consists of three sections:

  1. Historical. Dedicated to the history of the village from the first buildings to the present day, the genealogy of the ancient Petrun families, including the genus, the founder of which was Ivan Nikolaevich Sorvachev - the discoverer of Intin coals.
  2. Ethnographic. He tells about the main occupations of the indigenous people: reindeer herding, fishing, hunting, agriculture. The pearl of the exposition is a life-size plague with all the attributes of the nomadic life of a Komi reindeer herder.
  3. Combat and labor glory. It represents the fate of the villagers who fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War and forged Victory in the rear. Unique documents tell about unusual reindeer herding detachments that fought as part of the troops of the Karelian Front. The kayur fighters of these detachments were also residents of the village of Petrun. From here were sent to the front sled deer, sets of reindeer harness, sledges, plague.

 

 

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