Zlatoust City Museum of Local Lore

Zlatoust Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest in Russia founded in 1825 as a museum of Zlatoust Mountain District. The first collections of the museum were a collection of minerals and rocks and a collection of cold uniforms and decorated weapons. Since 1833 the museum was housed in the halls of the upper floor of the newly built Arsenal.

Description of the museum left P.P. Anosov in the work “Statistical description of Zlatoust mining plants for 1838”. The second birth of the Zlatoust Museum dates back to the 1920s.

From February 24, 1924, Mikhail Fedorovich Shestopalov began to organize the District Museum, from October 1, 1925 he was enrolled in the state as the head of the museum and stayed in this position until October 1, 1930. He was the first Soviet director.

Zlatoust District Museum was located in a small room of 42 square meters. Zlatoust Mechanical and Metallurgical College. At the time of its opening, there were 150 exhibits. A few months later, thanks to the efforts of the community of local historians, the museum funds grew to 2,000 exhibits. The museum was given a new premise with an area of 480 square meters - previously occupied by carpentry workshops of the technical school, completely unsuited for the placement of the museum.

In May 1925 the museum was opened to the public. By October 1927, the museum fund had 20,000 exhibits. During this period, the museum funds were replenished in different ways.

On March 14, 1927, the Presidium of the Ural Regional Council of National Economy decided to transfer the museum property of the South Ural Trust (the former property of the museum in Arsenal) to the Zlatoust District Museum.

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1922-1923. The Zlatoust pedagogical technical school was deposited with the former district art and industrial museum.

Painting works of such major artists as Petrovichev, Tanilsky, Blumenthal, Burliuk, Sugarovsky, Lezhnev, as well as works of bronze, porcelain, glass were transferred to the museum. Only 27 grand.

On January 30, 1928, an art department was organized at the Zlatoust District Museum.

In 1929, the Zlatoust District Museum was transferred to the building of the Holy Trinity Cathedral, where it was located until 1933.

From 1933 to the present time, the museum is located in the former house of the mining chief. The museum building is a monument of history and culture of federal significance.

During the Great Patriotic War, the museum was closed, the building was occupied by the Kharkiv Archive. Opened in 1944. In 1969 the museum was closed for reconstruction. The new exhibition was opened in 1976.

In the 1970-1980s, as a result of active expeditionary work, an ethnographic collection was formed. There was a collection of ancient Russian painting and copper plastic. The collection of rare books was formed from the books of the XYIII - early XX centuries, transferred from the scientific library of the museum. Old printed books were purchased.

In the Zlatoust City Museum of Local Lore, a unique decorated cold weapon of Zlatoust masters of the I-th floor is exhibited. XIX century: I.N. Bushueva and I.P. Boyarshinov, products made of dulat steel, cast iron art casting of Kusinsky and Kaslinsky plants. works of modern Zlatoust masters made in the traditions of Zlatoust engraving on metal.