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There are more than 3000 museums (and about 72 000 museum workers) in Russian Moscow region 92 Federation, not including school and company museums. Every year Russian museums visit more than 80 million visitors, 1/3 of who are visitors under 18

There are about 650 individual and institutional members in ICOM Russia. During two last St. Petersburg 117 years ICOM Russia membership was rapidly increasing more than 20% (or about 100 new members) a year Northwestern region 160 You will find the information aboutICOM Russia members in this book. All members (individual and institutional) are divided in two big groups – Museums which are institutional members of ICOM or are represented by individual members and Organizations. All the museums in this book are distributed by regional principle. Organizations are structured in profile groups Central region 192 Volga river region 224

Many thanks to all the museums who offered their help and assistance in the making of this collection South of Russia 258

Special thanks to Urals 270 Museum creation and consulting Culture heritage security in Russia with 3M(tm)Novec(tm)1230 Siberia and Far East 284

© ICOM Russia, 2012 Organizations 322 © K. Novokhatko, A. Gnedovsky, N. Kazantseva, O. Guzewska – compiling, translation, editing, 2012 [email protected] www.icom.org.ru © Leo Tolstoy museum-estate “Yasnaya Polyana”, design, 2012 Moscow MOSCOW A. N. Scriabin Memorial

Capital of Russia. Major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation center of Russia and the continent Museum Highlights: First reference to Moscow dates from 1147 when Moscow was already a pretty big town. • all personal belongings of Alexander Scri- Named after the Moskva-river, which banks it is situated on abin • Bechstein grand piano presented to the Became the capital of the independent principality in 1327. After under Ivan III the city composer by the famous German firm, became the capital of the kingdom which included almost the whole territory of the present-day • a concert dress European part of Russia. Moscow remained to be the capital until 1712, when the newly founded • casts of Scriabin`s hands Saint Petersburg became the capital of Russian Empire • one of the first telephone sets in Moscow • vase by K. Fabergé On 12 March 1918 Moscow became the capital again – and remained the same through the Soviet period till now Main research areas: • creative heritage of the great Russian Three objects from the UNESCO World Heritage List located within the borders of Moscow composer, pianist, philosopher and poet Alexander Scriabin Population over 12 000 000 pened on July 17th, 1922 under the ini- • history of the Silver Age of Russian culture tiative of the composer`s widow, Tatiana Total area 1091 km2 OShletser Last years’ main projects • exhibition “The Genius of Russian music” Time zone MSK (UTC+04:00) Collection: 26 808 items dedicated to 140th anniversary of Alexan- der Scriabin’s birth, Moscow Main sections of collection: • exhibition dedicated to foundation of • memorial apartment Scriabin`s Society in Bulgaria, Sofia • authentic things and furnishing that sur- • exhibition “The Touching to music” within rounded A. Scriabin in his everyday life the Festival “Terra musicale” organized by • private library Association of musical museums of Rus- • archival documents (photos, letters, man- sia, Moscow uscripts, autographs, memoirs, concert programmers, posters) ICOM Committee ICLM

“Memorial museum of A. N. Scriabin” 119002, Moscow, B. Nikolopeskovsky lane, 11 [email protected] www.anscriabin.ru Director Alexander Lazarev +7 (499) 241 19 01 Executive secretary Elvira Zelenina +7 (499) 241 19 00 International contacts Valentina Kokonova +7 (499) 241 21 52

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Highlights of the collection: A. S. Pushkin State Museum • A. S. Pushkin portrait by Xavier de Maistre. Metal plate, oil. 1801–1802 • autograph A. S. Pushkin on the document “Register of books from A. S. Pushkin” • N. Pushkin Lansky portrait by I. K. Ma- karov. Oil on canvas. 1849 • illustration for scene chases. Option fron- tispiece by A. N. Benoit. Watercolor on paper. 1906–1916 • Russian furniture. The framework of soft wood, mahogany veneer, fabric. 1820 • Ballads and tales by V. A. Zhukovsky. Cal- ico, paper label on spine with gold letter- ing. 1831 • Exhibition “Place of genius. Lieu du ge- nie” – an artistic study of the spirit of Main research areas: places linked to the important figures of • biography and the artistic heritage of Russian and French literature – Pushkin, A. S. Pushkin Lermontov, Turguenev, Tolstoy, M. Sholok- hov, J. Verne, G. Sand, A. Rimbaud, Museum is a research center to study the bi- E. Triolet et L. Aragon. Sholokhov, J. Verna, ography and the artistic heritage of Pushkin G. Flobera, G. Sand, A. Rembo, and E. Tri- ole L. Aragona. Last years’ main projects: • “Portraits of the unknown”. The State Mu- ICOM Committees ICLM, MPR, ICFA, CECA, seum of A. S. Pushkin DEMHIST, ICOM-CC

ounded on 5th of October 1957. Started Collection: 165 000 items out almost without a single exhibit F Main sections of collection: paintings, draw- Museum complex covers an area of the for- ings, books, documents, manuscripts, pho- mer town estate Khrushchev – Seleznyov, tographs, decorative and applied art, sculp- constructed in 1814–1817 ture, numismatics, and furniture

State Institution of Culture of Moscow “The State Director Evgeny Bogatyrev Museum of A. S. Pushkin” +7 (495) 637 26 36 119034 Russia, Moscow, ul. Prechistenka 12/2 [email protected] Executive secretary Svetlana Kuzmina Department (Branches): +7 (495) 637 78 48 • “Memorial Apartment of A. Pushkin” [email protected] • “Memorial Apartment of A. Beliy” International contacts Vladimir Polyansky • “Museum of I. S. Turgenev” +7 (495) 637 57 13 • “House of V. L. Pushkin” [email protected] www.pushkinmuseum.ru

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ounded in 1716 as Mineral Area Chamber A. E. Fersman in Kunstkamera, which was later moved Fto Moscow and became part of the museum collections of the Russian Academy of Sci- Mineralogical museum ences. At present, the museum has one of the best and most complete collections of minerals in the world. Today the museum is located in the former riding school “Manezh” and the stables of the palace mansion “Neskuch- noye” (1806)

Collection: 150 000 items Last years’ main projects: Main sections of collection: systematic col- • “Fabergé”. Juuka, Finland, 2008 lection, collections of: crystals, deposits, for- • “Year of Russia in India”. Delhi, India, 2009 mation and transformation, gem stones and • “Panorama of empires. Cesarevitch Nicolas lapidary, meteorites Alexandrovich travel to the Eastin 1890– 1891”. Tsaritsyno, Moscow, Russia, 2010 Highlights: • Projects “Fersman Rainbow”, “Fersman • Faberge lapidary masterpieces Rebus” in collaboration with ICOM Russia, • lapidary from the Peterhof, Kolyvan, Eka- 2010–2011 terinburg cutting factories • “Fabergé and lapidary artists”. Kremlin, • unique crystals Moscow, Russia, 2011 • rare minerals • “Water and Stone”. Kaliningrad, Russia, 2012 Main research areas: • Temporary exhibitions at the mineral show • research of a mineral matter (discovery of in Tucson, USA, 2009–2012 the new mineral species) • historical lapidary art-pieces ICOM Committee NATHIST

Mineralogical museum named after A. E. Fersman RAS Moscow, Leninskiy prospect, 18-2 www.fmm.ru [email protected] Director Viktor Garanin +7 (495) 952 00 67 [email protected] Executive secretary Elena Borisova +7 (495) 954 18 59 [email protected] International contacts Maria Alferova +7 (495) 954 39 00 [email protected]

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stablished in the year of 800-anniversary • Holy Trinity. 1484–1485. St. Joseph of Volo- Andrey Rublev museum of Moscow – 1947, on the premises of kolamsk monastery. Master Paisius EAndronikov Monastery of the Saviour (15th – 18th cc., closed in 1918) Main research areas: of Ancient Russian • Ancient Russian Culture and Art Opened on 21st of September 1960 Culture and Art Last years’ main projects: Collection: 18 773 items • Iconography of Holy Theotokos (Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia, 2008) Main sections of collection: icons, murals, • Holy Warriors: Images of Celestial Defend- applied and decorative arts, sculpture, manu- ers in the Russian Art 12th – the beginning scripts and old-printed books of 20th c. (Andrey Rublev museum, 2009), (Yekaterinburg museum, 2011) Highlights: • Holy Russia. Icons from Andrey Rublev • Christ the Almighty. First half of the 13th Museum Collection in Moscow (Cultural century. From Yaroslavl Region center Bankaha, Valencia and Alicante, • St. John the Forerunner. About 1420. Mos- Spain, 2009) cow. Master related to Andrey Rublev • Andrey Rublev. The Feat of Icon-painting. circle To 650th anniversary of the Great Artist • Dormition of Holy Theotokos. Late 15th (State Tretyakov Gallery, 2011) century. Master related to Dionysius circle • Theotokos Vladimirskaya (Volokolamska- ICOM Committees ICFA, ICDAD, AVICOM ya). About 1572. Moscow

Federal state budget cultural institution “Central Andrey Rublev museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art” 105120, Moscow, Andronievskaya, 10 +7 (495) 678 50 55 Branch: • Church of the Intersession at Fili district (17th c.) www.rublev-museum.ru Director Gennady Popov +7 (495) 678 14 89 [email protected] Executive secretary Natalia Komashko +7 (495) 678 98 03 [email protected] International contacts Maria Ivaschuk

10 ICOM Moscow Moscow Bakhrushin Central Number of depository items: 1 500 000 Main sections of collection: decorative and fine materials fund, photo and negative docu- Theatre Museum mentation fund (over 500,000 items), fund of posters and theatre programs (600,000 items), archive and manuscript fund, book fund, fund of memorial things, fund of children and puppet theatres, collection of video-, audio records and film materials Main research areas: • Russian music and drama theater history Highlights: • A. A. Bakhrushin’s activities and forming of • archive of Marius Petipa collection history • fund of V. Meierhold • stage design history • works of the end of 19th – the beginning • museology problems of 20th c.: sketches of sets, costumes, maquetts of sets by I. Bilibin, N. Rerikh, Museum is a scientific and methodological B. Anisfeld, F. Fedorovsky, A. Golovin, center on the work with theater museums K. Korovin, M. Vrubel, L. Bakst, A. Benua, N. Goncharova; masters of avant-garde: Last years’ main projects: A. Ekster, V. Tatlin, A. Rodchenko, A. Len- • Exhibition “A. M. Rodchenko. Constructing tulov, N. Altman, etc. the Future”, Barcelona, Spain, 2008–2009 • photo portraits of actors (F. Shalyapin, • Exhibition “Swans and Firebirds. “Russian T. Karsavina, V. Nijinsky, A. Pavlova, ballet seasons” 1909–1929”, Munich, Ger- M. Kseshinskaya, M. Fokin, M. Tchekhov, many and Vienna, Austria, 2009 n the 1890-s Russian merchant and patron his private estate (1896, arch. K.Gippius) in G. Ulanova, M. Plisetskaya, etc.) • Exhibition “Bonjour, Monsieur Tchekhov!” of arts Alexey Bakhrushin began to collect Moscow and opened it for the public. The • posters created by A. Golovin, K. Somov, (“Le mystere Tchekhov”), Avignon, France, Ithe pieces of theatre arts. 29th of October, main collection is still located there. On the S. Sudeikin, A. & V. Vasnetsov, brothers 2010 1894 is the date of birth of theatrical muse- 25th of November, 1913 A. Bakhrushin hand- G. & A. Stenberg • Exhibition “Russian Diagilev Ballets and um – the first museum of a new type in the ed his museum over to the Russian Imperial • Fyodor Shalyapin’s library their influence on Art Deco”, Salamanka, world, when collector put all the pieces into Academy of Science • theatrical costumes and objects of theat- Spain, 2011 rical life, objects of Chinese May-Lan-Fan Theatre, collection of fans ICOM Committees ICDAD, ICMS, AVICOM Federal State Budget Institution of Culture “Bakhrushin • Apartment-Museum of V. N. Plutchek State Central Theatre museum” • Memorial museum “Creative studio of theater artist 115054, Moscow, Bakhrushina str., 31/12 David Borovsky-Brodsky” +7 (495) 953 48 48, +7 (495) 953 44 70 • Theater Gallery on Malaya Ordynka [email protected] Branches (all in Moscow): www.gctm.ru • Estate-Museum of A. N. Ostrovsky • House-Museum of M. N. Ermolova General director Dmitry Rodionov • House-Museum of M. S. Shchepkin [email protected] • Apartment-Museum of V. E. Meierhold Executive secretary Natalia Mashetchkina • Apartment-Museum of M. V. & A. A. Mironov [email protected] and A. S. Menaker’s International contacts Irina Petrova • Apartment-Museum of G. S. Ulanova +7 (495) 951 87 71, [email protected]

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pened in 1912 to celebrate the 100-year • 1812 Patriotic War and 1813–1814 war Borodino Battle Panorama anniversary of the 1812 Patriotic War campaign O • military museums Main building was constructed and the mu- • panoramic art seum was renewed in 1962 to commemorate • artistic biography of Franz Roubaud 150-years anniversary of the 1812 Patriotic War. It was constructed to demonstrate the Last years’ main projects: panorama painting “The Battle of Borodino” • «Strong and beautiful art of future» 150- year anniversary of Franz Roubaud, the Collection: 39 987 author of panorama Borodino, 2006 • «Patience and time» 260-year anniversary Main sections of collection: paintings, arms, of M. I. Kutuzov and 195-year anniversary uniforms and equipments, graphic arts, nu- of the 1812 Patriotic War, 2007 mismatics, decorative and applied arts, rarity • «We’ve brought the glory through the books, historical papers, sculptures, items of ages» (Russian Imperial Guard, 1805– military life, porcelain. 1815), 2011 • «Epoch of 1812: art of ruling, fighting, liv- Highlights: panorama-painting “The Battle of ing», 2011 Borodino” by Franz A. Roubaud, 1912 • «Museum-panorama the Battle of Boro- dino (1912–2012): time and things, history Main research areas: and legends», 2012 • Russian military history of Napoleonic epoch ICOM Committees ICOMAM, CAMOC

Museum-panorama “The Battle of Borodino” 121170, Russia, Moscow, Kutuzovsky prospect, 38 Branches: • “Kutuzovskaya izba” (Moscow) • Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation (Moscow) www.1812panorama.ru Director Elena Serebrova +7 (499) 148 56 76 [email protected] Executive secretary Lada Mitroshenkova +7 (499) 148 79 78 [email protected] International contacts Marina Zboevkaya +7 (499) 148 18 51 [email protected]

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mazelike museum invites the visitor to con- after K. A. Timiryazev template the sculptures. The works of art can reated in 1922 as the educational • collection of the ground beetles which is be strolled between while the changing back- museum under the Communist Univer- represented by the typical examples of the ground of the seasons and weathers go on. Csity named after Y. Sverdlov. Museum has taxons (paratypes), that were described The Bourganov Center contains a small gal- got two buildings: old one was constructed in by the Senior research scientist of our lery with changing exhibitions, a theatre stu- 1892–1893 and new one – in 1898 museum D. Obydov dio, a concert and congress room, the studio of the masterclass and art school that offers Collection: 80 328 items Main research areas: courses in painting, drawing and sculpting for • researches in the different fields of biol- children and adults alike Main sections of collection: storage groups, ogy (10 scientific subjects in ornithology, biogroups, botanical units, wet mounts, her- population ecology, botany) Main sections of collection: art of the ancient barium, nests, egg layings, graphic arts, ap- • museum education programs (results classics, Russian medieval sculpture and folk plied & decorative arts, paintings, books, scale of this work are published, including the art, art of Western Europe and Africa, unique models and dummies, minerals, botanic mod- subject collected papers of Timiryazev State books and prints els, paleontology, written documents, skele- Biological Museum and were presented at tons of invertebrates, skeletons of vertebrates, the scientific-practical conferences) Highlights: sculpture, carcasses, photographic materials, • collection of reliefs “Russian Artists” stuffed animals, skins, entomological materials Last years’ main projects: • “The Arctic as far as close” (nature and Main research areas: Alexander Burganov Highlights: scientific research in Arctic under the ounded in 1984 and opened for public heritage study • collection of items of human and animals International Polar Year) in 2001 abnormal development • Ecological project “Russia Reserve” F Last years’ main projects: • models of the different fruit kinds of (together with national parks and reserves) Situated in the historical center of Moscow, • Exhibition of paintings and drawings from domestic selection which form one of the • “Looking for the harmony: the game with near Arbat pedestrian area. The twin hearts of the museum’s collection, “Burganov Cen- biggest collection in Russia and without rules” (from the museum the museum are the studio of Alexander Bour- ter” at the Palais des Nations, the United • collection of the taxidermal sculptures funds) ganov, who is a sculptor and Professor at the Nations. Geneva, Switzerland, 2004–2005 • collection of stromatolites, which includes Moscow State Academy of Decorative and • Solo exhibition of Alexander Burganov the typical of the taxons ICOM Committee NATHIST Applied Arts named after S. Stroganov; and Square Mont-des-Arts in Brussels. Belgium the considerable collection of classical and modern sculptures. The court of the small and ICOM Committees CIMAM Timiryazev State Biological Museum 123242, Moscow, 15, Malaya Gruzinskaya str. [email protected] The Museum of classical and modern www.gbmt.ru Art “Bourganov Center” Director Elena Chusova 121019, Moscow, Bolshoy Afanasievsky lane, 15 +7 (499) 252 55 42 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.burganov.ru/ Executive secretary Marina Kulikova, PhD Director Igor Burganov +7 (499) 252 36 69 +7 (495) 695 04 29 [email protected]

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collection was donated to museum by M. A. Bulgakov’s family, some – by the of Armed Forces Moscow residents. ounded on December 23rd, 1919 by Order Main research areas: by the Revolutionary Military Council of • Electronic video library on the study of Bul- FSoviet Republic gakov’s work. The library contains materials of lectures of scientists, historians and Building was designed and constructed spe- literary critics cially for the Museum in 1965 • Creation of a programme for the historical club “Bulgakov Russia” which will link the Collection: 821 000 items museums in various cities of Russia and Ukraine Main sections of collection: history of Rus- Last years’ main projects: useum dedicated to the life and works • Preparation of the historical almanac for sian Imperial Army and Fleet, the Red Army, • Exhibition “90th Anniversary of the Red of the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. publication to the 125th anniversary of the armed Forces of the USSR, armed Forces of Army”, 2008 MPlaced in the house where the action of the Bulgakov’s birth the Russian Federation • Exhibition “People and War: individuals, novel “Master and Margarita” is set. Built • Preparation of a “Bulgakov’s Moscow” events, destiny”, 2010 in 1903 by architects and A. N. Milkov and guide Highlights: Victory Banner raised over the • Intermuseum Exhibition Project “Variag” E. S. Yuditskiy, a vivid example of Moscow • Preparation of the second edition of book Reichstag building in Berlin on the 1st of May, Cruiser. Getting the relics”, 2010 Modern “Genealogy of Mikhail Bulgakov” of re- 1945 • Intermuseum Exhibition Project ”First searcher B. S. Myagkova with an electron- Ladies of Russia”, 2010 Collection: 1500 items ic version of it Main research areas: • Intermuseum Exhibition “Victory!” 2010 • Creation of an electronic archive «Annals • history of wars and art of war; development (Caen, France – Peace Memorial) Main sections of the collection: objects, doc- of the “Bulgakov’s House: 2004–2014”» processes in the history of Armed Forces • Intermuseum Exhibition “Socialist Real- umentation, pieces of art, books, electronic which will contain the bibliography of in Russia isms” 2011 (Rome, Italy – Palazzo delle archive books about the life and works of M. A. Bul- • history of arms and battle vehicles Esposizioni) gakov and records of unique meetings and • history of uniform and military decorations Highlights of the collection: presentations • scientific research of the Museum objects ICOM Committee ICOMAM • Folder for documents of M. Bulgakov • Memorial objects and photos of M. A. Bul- Join ICOM in 2009 Committee DEMHIST Central Museum of Armed Forces – Federal Institute gakov family under the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense • L. E. Belozerskaya-Bulgakova’s handbag Museum “Bulgakov’s house” (Bulgakov’s second wife) 129110, Moscow, 2, Soviet Army Str. Moscow, 1 level, home 10, Bolshaya Sadovaya str. • Model of the monument to Bulgakov by Branches: www.dombulgakova.ru sculptor A. I. Rukavishnikov • Memorial Museum in the Study of G. Zhukov, [email protected] • Coins, glass and oil jar from Jerusalem, Marshal of the USSR. Moscow 1–2 century AD Director Nikolay Golubev www.cmaf.ru +7 (495) 967 40 21 Director Alexander Nikonov st [email protected] Opened on 1 of May 1945 on Bulga- +7 (495) 681 18 80 Executive secretary Elena Sheldyaeva kov’s birthday. Set up in collaboration of [email protected] +7 962 935 88 63 Bulgakov’s fans and researchers. The Executive secretary Elena Porodina [email protected] funds was formed gradually. Part of the +7 (495) 681 23 33, [email protected]

18 ICOM 19 ICOM Moscow Moscow Chocolate and Cocao Contemporary Museum history Museum of Calligraphy pened on the 19th of March, 2009 on the • chocolate pot for hot chocolate. “Sazikov” stablished in 2008 as a result of a long- premises of the “Babaevski” Chocolate company. Silver, mother-of-pearl, ivory, term project “International Exhibition of Ofactory as a part of factory bone, 1854 ECalligraphy” • chocolate pot for hot chocolate. Meissen, Situated in Abrikosovs’ mansion (1907, arch. end of 18th – beginning of 19th cc. Situated in the building constructed in 1965, Schnauberg) and has incorporated two com- • label of the “Mishka kosolapy” candy. renovated in 2008 pany museums – of the “Babaevski” factory Artist – M. Andreev, beginning of the 20th c. and the one of “The Red October” factory. • label of the “Red Army star” candy. Collection: 1714 items The main theme of the exposition is “the way Artist – V. Mayakovski, beginning of the 20th c. of the chocolate beans” in time and space for Main sections of collection: calligraphic paint- the last 3000 thousand years Main research areas: ings; calligraphy materials and tools; applied • foundation and development of the choco- calligraphy; hand-made, handwritten books; Collection: 26 000 items late factories in the 19th and 20th cc. books about calligraphy in various languages • product of the cocoa beans – chocolate Main sections of collection: • chocolate and candy packaging and labels – Highlights: • chocolate and candy packaging and artistic and documentary witnesses of its’ era • The World Famous Mezuzah by A. Bor- labels, 19th – 20th cc. shevsky Last years’ main projects: • publicity posters for chocolate and can- Last years’ main projects: • Handwritten Constitution of the Russian • International exhibition project Internation- dies, 19th – 20th cc. • “We play together”. Museum of the con- Federation by P. Chobitko al Exhibition of Calligraphy (2008 – Saint • chocolate and candy industry photo- temporary history of Russia. 2007–2008 • Decalogue (hand-made) Petersburg, 2009 – Moscow, 2010 – Velikiy graphs, 19th – 20th cc. • Opening of the new exposition “Museum Novgorod, 2012 – Moscow) • objects of the chocolate and candy indus- of the chocolate and cocoa history” Main research areas: • Mystery of the World Calligraphy exhibi- try (all kinds of utensils), 19th – 20th cc. • “Chocolate Christmas”. Kazan 2009–2010 • creation of the National School of Calligraphy tion – Moscow, 2008 • “Chocolate dance”. Vladimir-Suzdal Museum- • studying the effects of calligraphy studies Highlights: reserve, 2010–2011 on the personality development ICOM Committee ICFA • voyage album in a chocolate packaging, • “The endless history of chocolate”. Yosh- 1913 kar-Ola • vending machine witch chocolate. “Einem” Private foundation Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy company, 1910 ICOM Committee CAMOC 107113, 5th Luchevoy Prosek, 7, Bld. 6 LtD Candy Corporation “Babaevski” Museum of the +7 (495) 728 77 58 Chocolate and Cocoa history www.calligraphy-museum.com 107140, Moscow, Malaya Krasnoselskaya str., 7 Director Aleksey Shaburov [email protected] Executive secretary Olga Shaburova www.chokomuseum.ru +7 916 205 09 78 Director Liudmila Numerona [email protected] +7 (495) 982 57 98 International contacts Oksana Saloshina [email protected] +7 916 256 73 26 Main custodian Anna Bagulina [email protected] [email protected]

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populations of wild-area birds in Eurasia Darwin Museum and North America” • long-term international project “The study of natural hybridization of the ordinary (Ember- iza citrinella) and E. leucocephala buntings” • creating a global database of genetic “bar- code of life” (Barcod of life data system, BOLD) • study and taxonomic revision of complex groups of butterflies of the Palaearctic fauna • development of methodology for the attri- • “Discoveries project”, joint exhibition by bution of osteological material Czech Cultural Center and Zoo of Prague. stablished in autumn 1907 by the Moscow plaster casts, models; Commemorative • works on the new edition of the Red Book 6 October – 31 December 2009 Highly Courses for Women Directorate items; Audio collections; Rare books collec- of Moscow region • “Toumai – the Rise of Humans” in collabo- Edecision tion; Collection of archival documents and ration with French Cité des Sciences et photographs Last years’ main projects: d’Industrie (Paris). 16 November 2010 – Main edifice was opened on 2 September • “Decoding the Hair” in collaboration with 24 February 2011 1995; Exhibition Complex opened on 17 April Highlights: French Cité des Sciences et d’Industrie • “The Voyager Emil Golub” in collabora- 2007 – Contains Museum depository • important part of the collections which are (Paris). 24 March – 13 July 2008 tion with Museum of Africa by Emil Golub the aberrant coloured birds and mammals • “Dreams of Science: The Life of Charles (Czech Republic) and Czech Cultural Cen- Total area: 22 000 m2 • the largest collection of Russian abnormal Darwin in the Russian Imagination” in ter. 1 February – 13 March 2011 coloured birds and mammals Wolverhampton Art Gallery (UK), 29 No- Collection: 345 963 items • collection of extinct species – wingless vember 2008 – 16 January 2009 ICOM Committee NATHIST auk, wandering pigeons Main sections of collection: Mammological; • skeleton of the dodo – sole in Russia Ornithological; Herpetological; Ihthyologi- cal; Wet preparations; Entomology; Marine Main research areas: invertebrates; Paleontological, geological; • long-term international project “Study of Archeology; Botanical; Fine Arts; Casts, intercontinental genetic differentiation of

The State Darwin Museum 117292, Moscow, 57, Vavilova str. www.darwin.museum.ru Director Anna Klukina +7 (499) 783 22 54 [email protected] Executive secretary Tatiana Kubasova +7 (499) 783 20 13 [email protected] [email protected] International contacts Nicolas Simakov +7 (499) 132 02 02 [email protected]

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Collection: 233 496 items • winebowl “Cock”, author of the sketch – Decorative Applied A. Golovin, art pottery “Abramtsevo”, majoli- Main sections of collection: ceramics, glass ca, relief, glaze color, baking recovery, gilding objects, metal and stone objects, wood and • ceramic fireplace “Meeting of Volga Svya- and Folk Art Museum bone objects, art lacquer miniature, rare toslavovich with Mikhula Selyanovich”. The books, tissues end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th cc., author of the model – M. A. Vrubel, majolica, glaze color

Main research areas: • Research of theoretical aspects and history of decorative-applied and folk art • Study the specifics and trends of contemporary art practices in the profile of the museum area • Research in related areas, enlarging the possibilities of analysis and scientific inter- Highlights: pretation of decorative-applied and folk art • vase, the end of 19th – the beginning of 20th cc. in Moscow, the Ovchinnikov com- Last years’ main projects: pany, silver, sapphire, tourmaline, garnet, • “Cotton print of Russia”, 2010–2011 (Rus- carnelian, amethysts, enamel on filigree, sia, Germany, Spain) casting, gilding • “School of Palekh”, 2010–2011 (Russia, • Khatorskiy I., Master, Bowl, 1882–1899, Germany) Sankt-Petersburg, silver, enamel on fili- • “Remains of a paradise on earth” in the co- gree, gilding operation with the State Tretyakov Gallery, he All-Russian Museum of Decorative Museum is situated in an ancient manor, con- • plate “Proletarians of all countries, unite”, 2009 Applied and Folk Art was founded in structed in the end of the18th – beginning of 1921, The state porcelain factory. Petro- T1981 by the decision of the government of the 19th century and known as “The Osterman grad, porcelain, painting on glaze, gilding ICOM Committees ICDAD, ICEE the RSFSR House”

All-Russian Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Art 127473, Moscow, 3, Delegatskaya str. +7 (495) 609 01 10, +7 (495) 609 01 14 [email protected] www.vmdpni.ru General director Alexander Sysoenko Executive secretary Andrey Krivoshein International contacts Oksana Romanova +7 (495) 609 01 49 [email protected]

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of Battle for Moscow in achieving the Victory stablished in 1979 and opened in 1981 in the Great Patriotic War and Second World E War Collection: 57 017 Last years’ main projects: Main sections of collection: weapon (arms), • “Family Tour about a maze of false illu- numismatics, fine arts, memorial belongings, sions”, Intermuseum educational project, photos & negatives, newspapers, books, Moscow, 2010 documents, war archeology, ammunition, mili- • “Family Tour (wanderings) in time and tary technical equipment, audio, video, films space”, Intermuseum educational project, stores Moscow, 2011

Main research areas: history and importance ICOM Committee ICOMAM

State budgetary cultural institution “State Museum of the Defence of Moscow” 119602, Moscow, Michurinski prospect (avenue), Olympic derevnya, 3 [email protected] www.gmom.su Director Alla Lukicheva +7 (495) 437 60 66 Secretary of Scientific Board Kirill Dryannov +7 (499) 233 42 03 [email protected]

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room for researchers, concert hall (seats 160) • Spinet by Marko Yadra. Italy, Florence, Glinka National with a built-in organ by “A. Shuke” 1565 • Organ by Friedrich Ladegast. 1868 Collection: 865 979 • State Collection of Unique Musical Instru- Museum Consortium ments (over 300 items), including the mas- Main sections of collection: archives of Rus- terpieces of Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri sian and Soviet composers and performers; del Gesu album collections, including score and literary autographs of Russian and foreign artists; Main research areas: museum funds research letters and musical autographs of the foreign using methods of modern source studies, composers; State Collection of Unique Musi- musicology, art studies (paleography, textol- cal Instruments; collection of phonograph cyl- ogy, organology, performance analysis, dis- inders; paper music-roll for mechanic pianos cography, bibliography, musical museology and organs; old printed national and foreign and musicological analysis) published scores of 17th – 19th cc.; the first and lifetime editions of classical compos- Last years’ main projects: ers; books and scores with autographs and • “In Search of Genre. Musical Theatre of handwritten notes of prominent musicians; Sergey Prokofiev” – Central Museum of audio and video records – the unique collec- Musical Culture, 2011 tion which representing the development of • “The Perfection of Sound and Form. Mas- recording from the first records of 19th c. till terpieces of Amati, Stradivari, Guarne- modern audio disks; paintings, graphics and ri…” – Central Museum of Musical Culture, sculpture; printed graphics; photos 2010–2011 • “Lenin, Stalin and Music” – Cité de la Mu- Highlights: sique, Paris, 2010–2011 • Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Symphony #6 “Pathet- • “Known and UNKNOWN Chaliapin” – Fyodor ic”. Score autograph. 1893 Chaliapin Memorial Estates, 2010–2012 ounded in March of 1912, when in the ture. In 1954 the Museum was named after • Beethoven’s sketches notebook. 1802– Moscow Conservatoire was set up a Mikhail Glinka 1803 ICOM Committees CIMCIM, INTERCOM, Fmuseum named after Nikolai Rubinstein. In • Photo electric synthesizer ANS ICOM-CC 1941 on the basis of this museum was cre- Building (1966–1980 specially for the muse- ated the Central Museum of Musical Cul- um) equipped with exhibition venues, reading

The Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical [email protected] Culture www.glinka.museum 125047, Moscow, 4, Fadeyev str. General director Mikhail Bryzgalov +7 (495) 739 62 26 ext. 107 or 251 31 43 Branches: [email protected] • Fyodor Chaliapin Memorial Estates Executive secretary Tatiana Ginzburg • “Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Moscow” Museum +7 (495) 739 62 26 ext. 114 • Museum of Sergei Prokofiev [email protected] • Memorial Apartment of Nikolai Golovanov International contacts Stanislav Usachev • Memorial Apartment of Alexander Goldenweiser +7 (495) 605 65 15, +7 916 043 93 76 mob. • Museum-Estate of Sergei Taneyev (under development) [email protected]

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• complex expert examination of art works Grabar Art State restoration and conservation center • physical and chemical research Established in 1918 under The People’s Com- Last years’ main projects: conservation center missariat for Education • Exhibition “Solovetsky Monastery Heritage of the Archangel Region”. Russia, Archan- Building is an object of cultural heritage gel, 2006 “Complex of the Central Aero-hydrodynamic • Project “The Handwork Heaven” within the Institute, 1925–1931”, arch. V. A. Kuznetsov, program “The First Publication”. Exhibition V. Ya. Movchan, I. S. Nikolayev, A. S. Fis- “The Handwork Heaven. Painted Ceilings senko and Icons from the Churches in Kenoz- ersky National Park”. Russia, Moscow, Type of activity: conservation and expert ex- Grabar Art Conservation Center amination of museum objects • Exhibition “Heritage of the Kholmogory Land in the Archangel Region Museums”. Main research fields: Russia, Archangel, 2011 • elaboration of methods for scientific conservation ICOM Committees ICOM-CC, ICFA, ICDAD

Grabar Art Conservation Center 105005, Moscow, Radio Str., h. 17, bl. 6 [email protected] www.grabar.ru General director Alexander Lesovoy +7 (499) 261 57 46 Executive secretary Svetlana Vigasina, Director assistant +7 (499) 267 58 22

30 ICOM 31 ICOM Moscow Moscow Great Patriotic K. G. Paustovsky War Museum Literary Museum Center

ounded on 4 March 1986 as a part of the • uniforms, outfits, daily life articles that be- memorial complex to honor the victory longed to officers and soldiers of the Great Fover the Nazi Germany Patriotic War

Museum building with overall area of 44,600 Main research areas: sq.m, was constructed in 1995. In addition • history of the WW II museum has an extra open-air exhibition area • war conflicts in 1930-s in the Victory Park of 9,9 hectares with arma- • Soviet-Finish war in 1939–40-s ment and military machinery exhibition • Soviet-Japanese war of 1945

Collection: about 300 000 items Last years’ main projects: • Theme exhibition “Small arms of the Red Main sections of collection: Manuscripts and Army” documents collection; Film and photo collec- • Theme exhibition “Lend lease – collaboration; Weapons and machinery collection; Nu- tion in the name of victory” including Eng- mismatic collection; Art collection lish version • Theme exhibition of the memorial com- Highlights: plexes in Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora • full collection of small arms of the Military (Germany) with partnership of the Central Force of the USSR and Russian Federation Museum of the Great Patriotic War “Forced during 1920–2005 labour. Germans, forced laborers and war” • full collection of blanche arms of the Red Army ICOM Committee ICOMAM stablished in 1975 like a school museum Last years’ main projects: of K. G. Paustovsky by Zoya Kvitko • “Fleeting Paris” (France in life and works of Federal State Budget Institution of Culture “Central E K. G. Paustovsky) Museum of the Great Patriotic War in 1941–45” Situated in a building constructed in 1798 • “A fairy tale will always live” (based on 121170, Moscow, 10, Brothers Fonchenko Str. K. G. Paustovsky’s works for children) Branche: Collection: 17 380 items • “Paustovsky and Bunin” (I. A. Bunin in • Memorial Museum of German Anti-Fascists K. G. Paustovsky’s works and fate) www.poklonnayagora.ru Main sections of collection: memorial fund, personal belongings, documentary fund, arts – ICLM Director Vladimir Zabarovskiy ICOM Committees collection, books collection, multimedia +7 (499) 148 55 50 Moscow Literary Museum Center of K. G. Paustovsky [email protected] Executive secretary Serafima Gorbunova Highlights: 109472, Moscow, Kuzminskaya Str., 8 • Manuscripts, diaries, letters of K. G. Paus- +7 (499) 148 07 15 [email protected], [email protected] tovsky [email protected] www.mirpaustowskogo.ru International contacts Victor Skryabin Director Valentina Pimneva +7 (499) 145 03 24 Main research areas: +7 (499) 172 77 91 • Legacy of K. G. Paustovsky [email protected] Executive secretary Angelica Dormidontova • history of Russian Literature of 20th c.

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Kolomenskoe – Izmailovo – Founded on the 1st October, 1923 Unites four sites: Lefortovo – Liublino • Kolomenskoe. Tsar’s Courtyard (17th c., rebuilt in 2011). Museum of Wooden Archi- tecture. Church of the Ascension (1532, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994) etc. • Izmailovo. Wooden Tsar’s Mansion (1676– 1678) • Lefortovo. Former residence of Emperor Peter the Great • Ljublino. Former estate of Nicolay Durasov, who transformed palace into the House of Apollo – sun-god, arts and science protec- tor (19th c.)

Collection: about 150 000 Highlights: • Icons, 16th – 19th cc. • historical sites that nowadays make part of the museum were mentioned in Moscow tourist guides even in 1835

Main research areas: • archaeology • conservation and restoration, archives research, scientific conferences and semi- Moscow City Public Institution “The Moscow State nars Integrated Art and Historical, Architectural and Natural • education activities, publications Landscape Museum-Reserve” (Kolomenskoye – Izmailovo – Lefortovo – Liublino) Main sections of collection: icons; building Last years’ main projects: 115487, Moscow, Andropova avenue, 39 ceramics; archaeology; ethnograhpy; house- • “Sacred Russia” with State Historical Mu- www.mgomz.ru hold items, costume, farm implements; nu- seum, The Louvre, Paris, France, 2010 mismatics; coins of 17th – 19th cc., medals; • “The Soul of Russia in its Icon”, Instituto Director Sergey Khudyakov carved and gilded wood; iconostases frag- Providencia, Santiago, Chile, 2009 +7 (499) 612 52 17 ments, church sculpture, architectural details • “Religion and Every-day Life of Russian [email protected] of wooden houses; rare manuscript and print- Tsars”, Instituto Providencia, Santiago, Executive secretary Liudmila Sidorova ed books dating back of 16th – 20th cc.; metal; Chile, 2010 +7 (499) 615 86 45 clockworks, bells, church ware, locks and • “The Russian Miracle”, exhibition and con- [email protected] (please add “att. Ms Liudmila keys; graphics; engravings, albums, maps, cert program (UNESCO Headquarters, Sidorova” to your message) drawings, oil painting (18th – 19th cc.); fabric, Paris, France, 2010) International contacts Anna Popova, Deputy Director bone, and leather; traditional costume, every- for Cultural and International Projects day items, churchware, textile; photos, audio DEMHIST, CECA, ICFA, +7 (499) 616 66 40 ICOM Committees and video records ICOM-CC, ICOFOM, MPR [email protected]

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pened in 1919 on the grounds of Count Main research areas: Kuskovo Sheremetev’s estate, which had been • conservation of the museum exhibits and Onationalized in 1918 collections • conservation and restoration of the 18th Estate includes: Main building – the Palace century Estate’s monuments (1769–1775, architect K.Blank) • publishing, education and exhibition activity

Almost all the buildings preserved their interi- Last years’ main projects: ors of the 18th c. • Participation in the exposition “Poltava, 27th of June 1709: 300 years ago”. State Collection: over 45 000 Historical museum, Moscow • Participation in the exposition “Russia and Main sections of collection: collections of paint- France in the beginning of the 19th c. The ing, graphic arts, the 16–19th century sculp- history of wars and of the neighboring tra- ture, furniture, decorative and applied art, ditions in art”. Devoted to the 200th anni- the books from the family library, the portrait versary of the Patriotic War of 1812, State gallery from the Sheremetev collection; col- museum–reserve “Tsaritsino”, Moscow lections of glass, collections of porcelain and • Participation in the international exhibition collections of majolica, collections of sculpture “Triumph of the blue swords. The Maisen porcelain for nobles and bourgeoisie. Highlights: 1710–1815”. The State Dresden collection, • collection of 18th century portraits (Portrait Germany Gallery) • stavok by D. Vinogradov ICOM Committee ICDAD

The State Museum of Ceramics and the 18th Century “Kuskovo Estate” 111402, Moscow, Ulitsa Yunosty, 2 [email protected] www.kuskovo.ru Director Sergey Avdonin +7 (495) 370 01 50 +7 (495) 918 65 40 f Executive secretary Natalya Pogosyan +7 (495) 375 49 00

36 ICOM 37 ICOM Moscow Moscow Leo Tolstoy state museum ounder of now existing State Leo Tolstoy Museum in Moscow was Tolstoy Society Fthat emerged as the Moscow branch of the Society of the Tolstoy Museum in St. Peters- burg

April 5, 1920, Lenin signed a decree on the nationalization of the House of Leo Tolstoy in Moscow. Literary Museum on Prechistenka str. and Memorial estate “Khamovniki” were combined into a museum, which in 1939 became known as the State Museum of Leo Tolstoy Main sections of collection: manuscripts, Main exposition about the life and work letters, books, photographs, paintings, sculp- of Tolsoy – located in the former house of ture, graphics, audio and video materials Lopukhins-Stanitskoy (1817 by architect A. Grigoriev). Estate of Leo Tolstoy’s “Kham- Highlights: ovniki” was built in 1805–1807 and preserved • manuscripts of Leo Tolstoy its original interiors. Leo Tolstoy memorial – at • memorial fund of Leo Tolstoy Museum- the “Astapovo” station (1890). Tolstoy’s Cen- Estate “Khamovniki” ter on Pyatnitskaya str. – in an architectural monument of the 18th century (1789–1795) Main research areas: Leo Tolstoy heritage

Collection: about 400 000 items ICOM Committees ICLM, ICDAD, AVICOM

The Federal State budget Cultural Institution “The State museum of Leo Tolstoy” 119034, Moscow, Prechistenka str., 11/8 Branches: • Leo Tolstoy Museum-estate “Khamovniki” • Tolsoy center on Pyatnickaya str. • Leo Tolstoy memorial on Astapovo station • Cultural center named after Leo Tolstoy in Zheleznovodsk [email protected] http://tolstoymuseum.ru/index.html Executive secretary Lyudmila Gladkih +7 (495) 637 77 60

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stablished in 2005 under the decision of EJSC LUKOIL management Situated in the main building of the JSC LUKOIL (1995)

Collection: 4000 items

Main sections of collection: LUKOIL’s corporate collection (equipment and tools, photo and video illustrations, documents, uniform, models, souvenirs); history of the Russian Petroleum industry Main research areas: Highlights: • history of JSC LUKOIL • silver plaque – in honor of one billion poods • history of oil and gas industry of Russia (sixteen kilograms) of crude oil produced by “Oil Production Partnership of the Nobel Last years’ main exhibitions: Brothers” in 1906. The Fabergé Company • “Oil of Russia – traditions and modernity” • collection of kerosene devices, the end of • “The First Engineer of Fatherland – ounded in 1957. In 2011 the “World of Highlights: 19th – beginning of 20th cc. V. G. Shukhov” Luzhniki tours” was opened. The greatest • Champions League 2008 trophy • collection of oil-field tools, instruments and • “Nobels’ dynasty in Russia” Famount of the collection was given up to the • Symbols, badges, medals of the Moscow laboratory equipment • “Doer’s pass – 100 years since the birth of Federal Museum of sports in 2012. Summer Olympic Games 1980 • collection of pre-revolutionary security papers N. K. Baybakov” • collection of post-cards – history of the Oil • “From GOELRO Plan (State Commission Situated in the Grand Sports Arena of the Lu- Main research areas: and Gas Industry of Russia for Electrification of Russia) to Innovations zhniki Stadium – the main stadium of Russia, • history of Russian sport • collection of mailing units sent to the office of the 21st c.” which was constructed in 1956 • history of the world stadiums of “Oil Production Partnership of the Nobel • football Brothers” ICOM Committee ICMAH Collection: inventory of collection is in process ICOM Committee MPR

Company museum of Luzhniki Olympic Stadium Company Museum of JSC LUKOIL 24, Luzhniki, Moscow, Russia 101000, Moscow, 11, Sretensky Boulevard, [email protected] JSC LUKOIL, Museum [email protected] Director Sergey Sergeev, Honored cultural www.luzhniki.ru/index.php/191/ worker of the Russian Federation Director Julia Zhourkina +7 (495) 620 25 45 +7 (495) 637 00 61 [email protected] [email protected]

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burg from the 19th – 20th cc., including graph- • History of the establishment of the scien- ics and documents; fund of architectural and tific and research institutions of the Acade- artistic works my of Medical Science of the Soviet Union, the Russian Academy of Medical Science Highlights: and the Ministry of Health Care and the So- • school works and documents of the mem- cial Development bers of VKhUTEMAS and VKhUTEIN • Participation in the international exhibi- groups of 1920-s tions in Bulgaria, Italy and Ukraine

Priority research areas: ICOM Committees INTERCOM • history of the Moscow architecture school • history of the architectural-artistic education • VKhUTEMAS and VKhUTEIN groups • history and archeology of the complex of buildings on the Rozhdestvenka str., 11

Last years’ main projects: reated in 1984 for the 40th anniversary of stablished in 1989 by the decision of the • “Russian dreams – the Russian avant- the Academy of Medical Science of the MARKhI principal in order to collect the garde of 1917–1937”. 2009–2010, Japan, CSoviet Union Ehistory of the Moscow architectural school Museum of Modern Art in Saitama, in the Okazaki city museum, in the Fine Arts Mu- Situated in a building of the beginning of the Located in several rooms in the MARKhI com- seum in Yamagata 19th c. plex – the former Vorontsovy estate (1740-s) • “Futuristic architecture of Vyacheslav Lok- where the Stroganov school situated (1890– tyev”. 2009 Collection: 75 000 + over 30 000 in restoration 1914) • “VKhUTEMAS: Living heritage”. 2010– and processing 2011, part of the Festival “VKhUTEMAS Collection: over 50 000 items space” devoted to the 90th anniversary of Main sections of collection: documentary, col- VKhUTEMAS lection of objects, video and photographic Main sections of collection: funds of the archi- materials, books, gallery of medical posters tectural schools of Moscow and Saint Peters- ICOM Committee UMAC and paintings

Highlights: Museum of the history of the Moscow’s architectural • Paintings school at the MARKHI • Personal belongings of the scientists Scientific center of research “Medical museum” of the 107031, Moscow, Rozhdestvenka str., 11 • Medical instruments Russian Academy of Medical Science +7 (495) 621 15 01 • Medical equipment and technical devices 109240, Moscow, Solyanka str., 14 [email protected] Director Boris Nuvakhov www.marhi.ru/museum Last years’ main projects: +7 (495) 698 50 86, +7 (495) 796 88 33 Director Larisa Ivanova-Vyeen • Achievements of the Russian Academy of [email protected] Executive secretary Galina Malyasova Medical Science after 50–60 years of its Executive secretary Mikhail Poddubnyi International contacts Tatyana Efrussi history International contacts Lyutfiya Arifulova

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Main research areas: Memorial Museum • history of spaceflights and rocket production • biography and scientific activities of S. Ko- of Cosmonautics rolev and other great scientists and engineers of rocket industry • cosmonautics and culture

Last years’ main projects: • Participation in inter-museum museum project “Family journey” • Museum project “You may Touch it!” Ac- quaintance with the space technique samples • Exhibition “The century needed Korolev” dedicated to 100 anniversary of the birth of S. P. Korolev • Exhibition “Cedar! Cedar! It’s Zarya-1 call- ing!” devoted to the 50th anniversary of the first flight of man into space

ounded according to the USSR Govern- ICOM Committees CIMUSET, DEMHIST Fment Statement in1967 Situated inside the stylobate of the monument to “Space Conquerors” (1964), erected in commemoration of the First Artifitial Satellite launch

Cultural state institution “The Memorial Collection: 88 717 items Museum of Cosmonautics”

129515, Moscow, 111, Prospect Mira Main sections of collection: Academician Branches: S. Korolev personal belongings, documents, • Academician S. Korolev Memorial House, Moscow photographs, books, space technique, me- [email protected] morial objects, photos, space numismatics, www.space-museum.ru philately, works of art, books collection Director Alexander Lazutkin +7 (495) 682 60 92 Highlights: • real descent modules of “Vostok”, [email protected] “Soyuz-37”, “SoyuzTM-7”, spacecrafts Executive secretary Olga Anisimova • base block of “Mir” orbital complex +7 (495) 615 62 74 • spacecraft “Soyuz” consisting of a habitat [email protected] module, descent module and instrument- International contacts Tatiana Kalugina and propulsion compartment +7 (495) 682 91 62 • astronaut`s survival kits [email protected]

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ain research fields: theory of Modern • 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Art, biennale holding 2009 M • 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Last years’ main projects: 2011 • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Moscow Retro- spective, 2008 ICOM Committees – CIMAM

Moscow Biennale Art Foundation Moscow, Tverskaya str., 20/1, office 211 http://4th.moscowbiennale.ru Director Joseph Backstein +7 916 656 84 98 [email protected] Executive secretary Anna Morochnik +7 916 519 85 11 [email protected]

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ased on exhibits in the Moscow pavilion at Main research areas: the All-Russian Artistic and Industrial ex- • urban development since 1147 until mod- Bhibition, which was held in Nizhny Novgorod ern times in 1896 • development of the town community • main events of the city’s history and its Situated in the ensemble “Proviantskie maga- modern life zine” – a monument of civic architecture of the first half of the 19th c. ICOM Committees – CAMOC

Collection: over 1 000 000 items

Main sections of collection: paintings, graphic works, sculptures, documents, photographs, The Museum Group Moscow City Museum archeological and ceramic exhibits, rare 119021, Moscow, Zybosky bulvar, 2 books, numismatic collections, furniture, fab- Branches: ric and clothing items • Museum of Archeology of Moscow • Old English Court Highlights: • Russian country-estate Kuzminki museum • “Heyday of the Kremlin. Vsekhsvyat- • Lefortovo Museum itsky Bridge, and the Kremlin in the th • Museum of Russian Harmonica of A. Mirek late 17 c.” by A.M. Vasnetsov, 1922 www.mosmuseum.ru • Single tea set “Proletarians of all countries unite!”, 1922 General director Galina Vedernikova • Moscow outwear, end of 19th c. +7 (499) 766 44 35 • Samovar “Grusha granenaya”, end of 19th c. [email protected] • Female gloves, theatre binocular, 19th c. Executive secretary Tatiana Kudzaeva • “View of Moscow from the Vorobyovy Hills” [email protected] by I. Ayvazovsky, 1851 International contacts Irina Smagina • Sigizmund’s plan of Moscow of 1610. Pub- +7 (499) 766 42 19 lished in the 17th c. [email protected]

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Moscow Kremlin Museum • Russian gold and silverware of 17th – early Last years’ main projects: 20th cc. • Treasures of the French Crown. From the • European and Oriental ceremonial weap- Louvre collection, 2004 ons of 15th – 20th cc. • The Habsburg Cabinets of Arts and Won- • Russian arm and amours of 12th – early ders. Magic of Nature and Mechanism of 19th cc. the Universe. From Kunsthistoriches Mu- • West European silver of 13th – 19th cc. seum, 2005 • textile, embroidery textile of 14th – 18th cc. • Cartier. Innovations of 20th century. From Russian secular costume of 16th – early Paris branch of Cartier collection, 2007 20th cc. • Forbidden City. Treasures of the Chinese Em- • Russian State Regalia and ceremonial ob- perors. From Imperial Palace, Peking, 2007 jects of 13th – 18th cc. • Two Centuries of British Fashion. From Vic- • Royal carriages of 16th – 18th cc. toria and Albert Museum, 2008 • Samurais: treasures of the Japanese Main research areas: Daimyo. From Tokyo National Museum, 2008 • history of Moscow Kremlin Museums and • Treasures of the Ottoman Sultans from collections Topkapi Palace Museum, 2010 • Russian, West Europe and Oriental art, • The Medici Treasury. From collection of sil- arm and amours from Moscow Kremlin ver museum, Florence, Italy. 2011 Museums’ collections, • Poiret. King of Fashion. From Victoria and ounded in 1806 by the order of Alexander Facets Chamber 1487–1491 • Moscow Kremlin monuments of architec- Albert collection, London, Musee Galiera, I, when royal treasuries were donated to walls and towers of the Moscow Kremlin ture Paris, Museum of parfumerie, Grass, 2011 Fthe city of Moscow 1485–1495 • Russian state diplomacy and ceremonial art of 16th–20th cc. ICOM Committee DEMHIST Date of construction: Collection: 132 172 items Armory Chamber 1844–1851 Assumption Cathedral 1475–1479 Main sections of collection: Archangel Cathedral 1505–1508 • monuments of architecture, history and Annunciation Cathedral 1484–1489 culture “Museums-Cathedrals” 12th – early Ivan the Great Belfry 1505–1508 17th cc.

The State Historical and Cultural Museum-reserve “Moscow Kremlin” 103073, Moscow, Kremlin www.kreml.ru General director Elena Gagarina +7 (495) 624 55 03 [email protected] Executive secretary Irina Vorotnikova +7 (495) 695 85 32 [email protected] International contacts Anastasia Parshina +7 (495) 697 80 86 [email protected]

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today – from the sotsart of the 80-s to the Heads of Heroes Moscow Museum present-day art of new media • Aidan Salakhova – Suspense • the Blue Noses group – works from the Highlights: Small Men series of Modern Art • Kazimir Malevich – Self-Portrait, Portrait of • Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir the Wife of the Artist Dubosarsky Red-Haired Bitch • Alexandra Exter – Woman with Fish, • Andrey Bartenev – Say, I Love You! Fisherwomen • Boris Anisfeld – Shulamite, Self-Portrait Main research areas: • Vladimir Dmitriev – Circus • historical and artistic study of the collec- • Vasili Shukhaev – Portrait of Salomeya tion: research and attribution Andronikova-Galpern • conceptualized representation of the col- • Vladimir Stenberg – Worker lection in the form of temporary thematic • Tair Salakhov – Varvara (At the Mirror) ‘permanent’ displays and temporary • Oscar Rabine – River Harbour. Priluki exhibitions, popularized art books and ar- • Adelaida Pologova – White Clouds, Infinite ticles and on the official museum website and Never-Ending • collection integration into the research • Natalia Nesterova – Seaside Game context: studies and catalogues, lectures, • Boris Orlov – Triptych in Imperial Style public events • Ivan Chuikov – Window LXIV stablished on December, 15th, 1999, Collection: 5522 items • Valery Koshliakov – works from the series ICOM Committee CIMAM when private collection of modern and Econtemporary art was donated to the city of Main sections of collection: artworks by the Moscow. Main building on Petrovka 25 was masters of Russian avant-garde of the early constructed in 1793 by famous Russian archi- 20th century; Soviet art of 1950-s–1970-s; tect Matvey Kazakov Russian contemporary art, including art of

State budgetary institution of Moscow city Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow, 25, Petrovka str. [email protected] www.mmoma.ru Branches in Moscow: • 17, Ermolayevsky lane (1915 by D. Markov) • 9, Tverskoy boulevard (early 20th c.) • 10, Gogolevsky boulevard (late 18th c. by Matvey Kazakov) Director Zurab Tsereteli Executive Director Vasili Tsereteli +7 (495) 691 31 71 International contacts Irina Urnova +7 (495) 690 68 70 [email protected]

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Highlights: • works by Alexander Rodchenko union «Stolitsa» • Russian pictorial photography • works by Russian photographers and contemporary artists

Main research areas: • history of Russian photography • contemporary Russian art

Last years’ main projects: • International Month of Photography in Moscow – “Photobiennale” (since 1996) • Moscow International Festival “Fashion and Style in Photography” (since 2001) • Exposition of contemporary art ”Russian stablished in 1996, with Olga Sviblova as dreams…’’ Bass Museum of Art, Miami its director Beach, USA, 2009 E • “Photography from the New Russia. 1991– Reconstruction works in order to create a sin- 2010”, European House of Photography, gle complex in place of several existing build- Paris, 2010 ings (end of 19th c.) took place in 2005–2010 • Alexander Rodchenko exposition was presented with considerable in 2008–2012 Collection: 91 034 items years in the main exhibition halls in Ger- many, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Main sections of collection: photos, negatives, Brazil and others 200 persons and 1200 people is capacity contemporary art items, video documents ncludes: of the venue. www.mvc-rik.ru ICOM Committees ICEE, CIMAM I• Moscow State Exhibition Hall “New • Exhibition Hall “Chekhov’s House” Manege” (1888), located in the former • Museum-Studio of USSR people’s artist Multimedia Art museum, Moscow / Museum ”Moscow electric power-station D.A.Nalbandyan House of photography” • Central Exhibition Hall “Moscow Manege” • Museum of Vadim Sidur. www.sidur.ru 119034, Moscow, 16, Ostozhenka str. (1812), located in the former riding school [email protected] • Museum and Exhibition Center “Rabochiy ICOM Committee CAMOC http://mamm-mdf.ru/ I Kolkhoznitsa” dedicated to the history of sculpture composition by Vera Mukhina Director Olga Sviblova The State budget cultural organization «Museum and and Boris Iofan made to represent +7 (495) 637 11 33 exhibition union “Stolitsa”» Russia on the International Exposition “Art [email protected] and Technology in Modern Life” in Paris 125009, Moscow, Georgievsky lane, 3/3, bld. 1 Executive secretary Nadezhda Korotaeva in 1937. The USSR pavilion had a great www.new-manege.ru [email protected] success – it was award grand prize and General Director Vyacheslav Ermakov International contacts Olga Nestertseva golden medal of the World’s Fair. Now +7 (495) 692 44 59 +7 (495) 637 11 22 it has exhibition and conference hall for [email protected] [email protected]

54 ICOM 55 ICOM Moscow Moscow Museum – arts center Museum center, «Overcoming» University for Humanities edicated to the life and works of writer ducational Art Museum named after Ivan • “University Visit Card” exhibition N. A. Ostrovsky – author of the novel Tsvetaev was created in 1997 – department • Ivan Tsvetaev Educational Art Museum D“How the Steel Was Tempered” – and physi- Eof The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts – was cally challenged persons, who overcame their located in the University. Open depositary of plaster ailments like Ostrovsky did casts (1900-s). 7 halls. 750 Situated on the 1–4 floors of the items present art from Ancient Established in 1940 in the memorial apart- main building of University Egypt till Middle Ages and Re- ments of writer. Situated in the old famous in naissance Moscow building (1790-s) Includes: • “Other Art” collection • hall for temporary exhibitions Collection: 32 239 items Opened on 25th of February, Main projects: Main sections of collection: documents, Highlights: 2000. Donated by non-con- • development strategy “Educa- books, memorial items, illustrations, paintings, • memorial apartment of the writer formist art collector Leonid tion by the Arts” sculpture • sculpture by S. T. Konenkov Talochkin • seminars with the professors • portrait of N. A. Ostrovsky by A. Ya. Kravt- from different universities, chenko • “Ancient Mexican Art” institutes and academies • portrait of N. A. Ostrovsky by a German • studies for the art students artist H. Vogeler Opened in 2005. The first permanent display • exhibition project “Nature morte” collection dedicated to pre-Columbian art of Mexico in of 17th – 20th cc. from The State Pushkin Main research areas: Russia: 72 items donated by National Institute Museum of Fine Arts”, 2004–2005 • history of the house of Antropology and History of Mexico (INAH) • Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. • Moscow literary and musical salon of the and ceramics collection from Northern parts Participant since 2005 duchess Z. A. Volkonskaya of Mexico donated by United States of Mexico • hero and his epoch (N. A. Ostrovsky and Embassy in Moscow ICOM Committees CIMAM, ICOFOM, UMAC his novel) • “Overcoming” – workshops for disabled persons Museum center of Russian State University State Budgetary Cultural Institution of Moscow city for the Humanities “State museum – arts center “Overcoming” Last years’ main projects: 125993, 6, Miusskaya square, Moscow named after N. A. Ostrovsky” • MYP – project with disabled children +7 (499) 250 61 18 125009, Moscow, Tverskaya str., 14 organized with the Strogonov school +7 (499) 250 51 09 f [email protected] • Exhibition “My childhood with Pioneers” +7 (499) 251 10 70 f www.museumpreod.ru (with the Museum of contemporary history, [email protected] [email protected] Director Olga Devicheva Russian State Archives of social and politi- http://museum.rsuh.ru +7 (495) 650 12 22 cal history) [email protected] • International museum forum “Hurry to do Director Irina Bakanova, Dean of Art Historical Executive secretary Oksana Pokrovskaya good deeds”, Museum of Moscow, 2009 Department of University +7 (495) 609 00 01 [email protected] [email protected] ICOM Committees ICLM, ICMS +7 (499) 250 69 08

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Collection: about 1 300 000 items lovsky, P. Vilyams, I. Grabar, M. Saryan, Museum of Contemporary including I. Repin “Portrait of A. Kerensky” Main sections of collection: documentary (1917) collections, fine Arts collections, material • Goya’s etchings (8 albums), Madrid, 1937 History of Russia things department Main research areas: • history, theory and methods of museum’s work, museum’s source study, museum’s social-cultural functions Museum is a scientific and methodological center on the work with museums of contemporary history • museum reflection of characteristic properties of Russian civilization development in the second half of 19th – 21st cc. • structure and contents of the museum’s stocks, new sources, using of the modern computer technologies Highlights: • collection of the gifts to the Soviet and Last years’ main projects: party leaders of the USSR • Exhibition “The First Ladies of Russia in • collection of posters of Russian-Japanese 20th – 21st cc.” War 1904–1905 and I World War 1914–1918 • Exhibition “Goya. The Dusk and Light”, • collection of the Russian and Soviet post- 2011 oundation day of the Museum is believed to the State Central Museum of Contemporary ers 1917–1921 • Exhibition “Gifts for the Leaders”, 2012 to be March 21 (March 8, old style), 1917. History of Russia • collection of painting: I. Aivazovsky, I. Re- FIn 1922 the exhibition “Red Moscow” was pin, V. Serov, M. Nesterov, B. Kustodiev, ICOM Committees ICMAH, ICEE, ICOFOM, opened in the former English club. Soon it Main building was erected in 1789 (arch. K. Petrov-Vodkin, A. Lentulov, G. Koncha- MPR was transformed into Historical-Revolutionary A. Manelas), was destructed by fire in 1812 Museum in Moscow, which in 1924 became and reconstructed (arch. D. Djilyardi). Used known as the State Museum of the Revolution to be English club in 19th c. – members-only of USSR. In 1998 the museum was renamed gentlemen’s club

State Central Museum of Contemporary History • Interactive exposition “My House – Russia”, of Russia Moscow 125009, Moscow, 21, Tverskaya Str. • Memorial Complex “Katyn”, Smolensk region [email protected] • State Memorial Complex “Mednoye”, Tver region www.sovr.ru Director Sergey Arhangelov Branches: +7 (495) 699 52 17 • Museum-Gallery of E. Evtushenko, Moscow region [email protected] • Historical-Memorial Museum “Presnya”, Moscow Executive secretary Elena Vakulina • Museum “Underground Printing House +7 (495) 699 43 75 of 1905–1906”, Moscow International contacts Olga Litvinova • Memorial Museum-Flat of G. M. Krzhizhanovsky, +7 (49) 699 66 80 Moscow [email protected]

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Last years’ main projects: Museum of Oriental Art • “Under the Sign of the Golden Griffin. Royal Scythian burial” – Kunsthalle (Germany, 2007) • “Museum of Dreams of Shudo Sadamu gardens. Shudo collection exhibition from The State Museum of Oriental Art” – Oita Prefectural Art Hall (Oita, Japan, Decem- ber 10, 2007 – February 3, 2008)

Highlights: • silver gold-plating rhyton with protoma of Pegasus and a picture of the struggle of the gods and giants from Aul Ulyap; a burial mound #4. 5–4 cc. BC • collection of Qajar painting • collection of mongolian miniature painting Baburnama • collection of ancient meotian art • archaeological collection of Chukotka

Main research areas: • material culture’s monuments and the ancient art of the North Caucasus, Central Asia and the Far North • “Alexander the Great and the open- • ancient and modern art of the peoples of ing of the world. Transformation of Asian the Near and Middle East, India, Central culture” – Kunsthalle Leoben (Leoben, Asia, Siberia, Far North, Far East, South- Austria, March 21 – November 1, 2010) east Asia and Oceania • art legacy of the Roerich’s family ICOM Committees ICME, ICEE

th ounded on October 30 , 1918 by Reso- Building of the North Caucasian Branch was The Federal State Institution of Cultural “The State General director Alexander Sedov, lution of the Presidium of the All-Russian built in 1908 and reconstructed and adapted Museum of Oriental Art” a doctor of historical sciences FMuseums and Protection of Monuments of as a museum in the 1985–2010 119019, Moscow, Nikitskij Boulevard, 12a +7 (495) 691 03 41 art and antiquity’s Collegia by the People’s [email protected] Branch: Commissariat of Education Collection: over 81 000 Executive secretary Nina Alifirenko • North Caucasian Branch of the State Museum +7 (495) 691 79 01 of the Oriental Art. Russian Federation, 385000, Main building of the Museum known as “The Main sections of collection: Far East, Near [email protected] Republic of Adygea, Maykop, Pervomaiskaya str., 221 House of Lunins” was built in 1814–1821. and Middle East, South East, South, Central International contacts Anna Kovalets, Deputy General www.orientmuseum.ru Adapted as a museum in the 1968–1984. Muse- and Middle Asia, Caucasus and North Cau- Director for Development, Candidate of philosophical [email protected] um Depository located in the temple of the Holy casus, Siberia and the Far North, North and sciences, Candidate of philological sciences th Prophet Elijah on the Vorontsovo field (18 – Tropical Africa, etc., for individual countries +7 (495) 690 53 80 th 19 cc.), which was adapted in 1930–1964 and peoples, materials, etc. [email protected]

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ounded in 2006 by the decision of its • Pall “The Entombment”. End of the 16th c., Museum of Russian icon owner Mikhail Abramov Moscow (?) F • Candlesticks. 7th – 8th cc., Byzantine Museum of Russian Icon is situated in the Empire two-storey stone building of the beginning of 19th c. Main research areas: • Old Russian art 12th – 17th cc. Collection: 4000 items • Russian icon painting of the 18th – early 20th cc. Main sections of collection: Russian icon • Ancient religious art painting of the 14th – early 20th cc.; works • Russian architecture in icons of Russian applied arts of the 12th – early 20th cc.; byzantine applied arts of the 6th – 14th Last years’ main projects: cc.; works of Greek and post-byzantine art of • The Returned Property. Russian icons the 15th – 18th cc.; works of Ethiopian Christian in private collections: Moscow. State culture Tretyakov Gallery, 2008 • Heavenly gate: Recklinghausen (Germany), Highlights: Museum of arts, 2008–2009 • Icon “St. Nicholas” mid. – third quarter of • Masterpieces of Russian icons 14th – 16th the 14th c, Rostov cc. from private collections: Moscow. The • Icon “The Mother of God Hodegetria Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 2009 (Georgian)”. End of the 15th c. Novgorod • Russian Icon. 15th – 20th cc.: Slovakia, • Icon “Prophet Ilya in desert, with life”. First Bratislava. Slovak National Gallery, 2010 third or the 16th c, Rostov • Russian Icon (15th – 20th cc.): Rome (Italy), • Simon Ushakov and pupil (George National Museum Castel Sant’Angelo, Zinov’ev?). Icon “The Mother of God Ho- 2011–2012 degetria”, 1675–1678, Moscow. Armoury workshop ICOM Committee ICFA • Angelos Akotantos workshop. Icon “The Mother of God Glykophilusa”. Middle of the 15th c., Crete

Private cultural institution “The Museum of Russian icon” Moscow, 3, build. 1, Goncharnaya str. www.russikona.ru Director Nikolay Zadorozhnyy +7 (495) 221 52 83, add. 108 [email protected] Executive secretary Anna Ivannikova +7 (495) 221 52 83, add. 103

62 ICOM Moscow Moscow N. K. Roerich Public Museum N. V. Gogol’s House

of the Roerich family, collection of works by on memoirs of Gogol`s contemporaries. Col- artists-cosmists laborators of the library worked hard to form the exposition of the rooms, searching for fur- Highlights: niture, old pieces and rare books, including • paintings by N. K. Roerich “Sancta”, “The Gogol`s lifetime editions Banners of East”, “His Land”, “She Who Leads”, “Chintamani” Collection: 1610 items • paintings by S.N. Roerich “N. K. Roerich in Tibetan Robe”, “Tibetan Lamas” Main sections of collection: rare books and • Manuscripts of E. I. Roerich’s diaries documents, graphics, decorative and applied arts Main research areas: • developing the philosophy of cosmic Highlights: ounded by the Decree of the USSR Council reality on basis of the artistic heritage of • cup, offered by N. V. Gogol to his sister, of Ministries 950 dated April 4, 1989 the Roerich family Elisaveta F • ivory needlecase of M. I. Gogol-Yanovskaya – Situated in the Lopukhin Estate (monument of Last years’ main projects: ogol`s house on Nikitsky Boulevard is the author’s mother architecture 18th – 20th cc.) • Sweden, Stockholm, Museum of Dance, 2008 the only place in Moscow that keeps the • inkstand of D. P. Troshchinski – the author’s • India, New Delhi, National Gallery of Gmemory of the last years of famous Russian oncle Number of depository items: 27 300 modern art, 2010 writer Nikolai Gogol alive • mortuary mask of N. V. Gogol executed by • Exhibition dedicated to the Roerich pact a sculptor N. A. Ramazanov Main sections of collection: paintings by (Berlin, Vienna, 2010), UNESCO Head- 1923 – N. K. Krupskaya founds the library • editions of N. V. Gogol’s works published N. K. and S. N. Roerich, collection of bronze, quarters (Paris), 2012 during his lifetime collection of tankhas, Buddhist xylography, • Mongolia, Ulan-Bator, Zanabazar National 1974 – opening of the N. V. Gogol’s memorial • antemortem editions on N. V. Gogols works Indian miniature, collection of graphic works Museum of Fine Arts, 2011 chambers by E. I. and N. K. Roerich, collection of manu- Last years’ main projects: scripts, collection of personal belongings ICOM Committee ICFA Located in the former apartment building • Inter-institutional exhibition project “Time (18th – beginning of 19th cc). Memorial Rooms travel. 200th anniversary of N. V. Gogol” of Gogol was created in the rooms where (Moscow’s Museums Union) Public Museum named after N. K. Roerich of the Inter- Gogol lived and worked during 1848–1852. national Center of the Roerichs Cabinet and reception room were recreated ICOM Committee DEMHIST 119019, Moscow, Maly Znamensky 3/5, [email protected] www.icr.su State budgetary institution for culture in the Moscow General Director Lyudmila Shaposhnikova city “The N. V. Gogol’s House – a memorial museum +7 (495) 697 68 71, +7 (499) 271 34 23 and a scientific library” Executive secretary Victor Frolov, Deputy Director 119019, Moscow, Nikitsky bvd, 7a General [email protected] +7 (499) 271 34 19 www.domgogolya.ru International contacts Alexander Stetsenko, First Director Vera Vikulova Deputy Director General +7 (495) 691 15 50 +7 (499) 271 34 05

64 ICOM 65 ICOM Moscow Moscow National Center Navy fleet for Contemporary Art of Russia Museum

Located in the former home of Vassily Polenov. Building has been adapted to the museum use in 2004 by architects M. Khazanov, M. Mindlin, M. Rebrov, N. Shangin, N. Kancheli designer and engineer N. Nikolaevoy

Collection: about 3000 items

Main sections of collection: installation, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography books, multimedia, Artoteka stablished on April 15th, 2003 by • Peak-caps of officers of the navy fleet from Highlights: governmental decision. On July 26th, the pre-war period • “Broken eggs” by Oscar Rabin E2006 museum was opened. The base of • The nuclear submarine • “Glaze” series by Mikhail Roginski the collection was a diesel engine-electric • Group works by Prigov Family submarine B-396 of the project 641B Last years’ main projects: stablished in Moscow in 1992, at the • “AES+F” Group, “Forest King” • Exhibition “50 years of the nuclear under- moment when contemporary art was only Collection: 5440 items water fleet of Russia” Eacquiring the basis for its normal existence and Main research areas: NCCA is a museum, • Exhibition “315 anniversary of the creation development in Russia. In 1995 Center joined exhibition and research organization which Main sections of collection: ware fund, photo- of domestic military marine sea fleet” a branch in St. Petersburg, in 1997 – in Kali- aims its efforts at the development of con- graphic materials, audiovisual • Exhibition “Underwater miles of war” – nin-grad and Nizhny Novgorod, and in 1999 – temporary Russian art within the context of commemoration of the 65th anniversary of in Yekaterinburg. In St. Petersburg’s branch the global art process, at the creation and Highlights: the victory in the Great Patriotic War of the NCCA opened a residence for artists implementation of programs and projects • Life saving devices and items – a ten-seater • Intermuseum project “The Moscow family. in Kronstadt. Since 2006 the NCCA conducts in the sphere of contemporary art, architec- saving raft, a sea-saving complex MSC-5 Traditions and the present” for the Days of annual All-Russian competition for the award ture and design both in this country, and from the pilots of naval aviation Historical and Cultural Heritage of Moscow in the field of contemporary visual art “innova- beyond its borders • Arms of naval fleet – the started towed tion”. And since 2008 the NCCA initiated and scanner VBAY “Paravan” ICOM Committee ICOMAM organized the Moscow International Bien- Last years’ main projects: nale for Young Art, “Stop! Who goes there?” • The annual All-Russian competition for the award in the field of contemporary visual The state budgetary institution “Museum memorial art “Innovation” complex of history Navy fleet of Russia” The National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) • Exhibition of Contemporary Art “H2O” within 125481, Moscow, Svoboda str., 50/56 123342, Moscow, Zoologicheskaya str., 13, build. 2 the framework of the World exhibition +7 (499) 729 66 62 +7 (499) 254 06 74 EXPO – 2008 in Zaragoza (Spain) [email protected] [email protected] • Moscow International Biennale for Young www.museum-vmf.ru www.ncca.ru Art, “Stop! Who goes there?” General director Alexander Iskra Director Mikhail Mindlin Executive secretary Natalia Sletina Executive secretary Konstantin Gorshkov ICOM Committee CIMAM International contacts Mikhail Krasnov

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decorated by the great variety of drapery, • portrait of grand princess Elena Pavlovna Ostankino french wallpapers, carved golden panels. by D. G. Levickiy, 1790-s The palace’s theatre is the only theatrical • Milo of Croton, Falconet, 1778 hall in Russia in which stage, auditorium, • Prometheus by F. G. Gordeev, 1769 make-up rooms, machine compartments • the bust of Aphrodite, 1st c. AD are survived from the 18th century. The pal- • double-sided fan “Rebecca near the well”, ace’s interiors are preserved its original Russia, 1780-s decoration Main research areas: Collection: 20 744 items • Russian culture of the 18th c.: theatre, architecture, sculpture, painting, decora- Main sections of collection: ancient Russian tive and applied arts. The history of the art (15th – 20th cc.); furniture (17th –19th cc.); collection of art of Counts Sheremetyevi sculpture (from antiquity to the middle of the 20th c.); porcelain (18th – early 20th cc.); fans Last years’ main projects: (18th – early 20th cc.); architectural graphic; • “Lost illusions – Paul I. the Age and engravings and lithography (18th c.); personality” Museum-reserve “Tsaritsyno” rare books (16th – 17th cc.); everyday • “The glass bead game”, Museum-estate objects of 18th – early 20th cc.; painting Ostankino (16th – 19th cc.); drawing and miniature • “IN THE CHILDREN’S ROOMS OF THE (18th – early 20th cc.); illuminating devices ALEXANDER PALACE” State Museum- (end of 15th – early 20th cc.) Preserve “Tsarskoye Selo” • “Fan in artistic culture of East and West”, Highlights: The State Museum of Oriental Art • portraits of P. B. and V. A. Sheremetyevi by I. P. Argunov, 1760 ICOM Committees ICFA, ICDAD, ICOFOM

stablished by Council of People’s Commis- with external stucco and interior’s decora- sars in April 1919 tion (1792–1798) in classicism-style. Two- E storey theatre is the compositional center Situated in the Ostankino palace-theater of the palace, there are several front halls which was built from siberian pine wood around it. The palace’s interior space is

The State budgetary institution of the city of Moscow “Moscow museum-estate Ostankino” 129515, Moscow, 1st Ostankinskaya Str., 5 www.ostankino-museum.ru Director Gennady Vdovin +7 (495) 686 02 88 [email protected] Executive secretary Uliana Leonova +7 (495) 686 62 88 [email protected]

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ounded in 1872 upon the initiative of the • “Monuments of science and techniques in Polytechnical museum Imperial society of amateurs of natural the museums of Russia” Fscience, anthropology and ethnography

Museum buildings were constructed in 1877– 1907 by the project of I. Moniguetti

Total area of the building: 32 308 m2

Collection: 206 130 items

Main sections of collection: materials and technology, information technology, transport, aviation and astronautics

Highlights: • Russian car “Russo-Balt” (1911) • Yablochkov’s Candle (1876) Last years’ main projects: • Ladygin’s incandescent lamp (1872) • “Russian priorities. Russian scientists who • P. L. Shilling’s Telegraph changed the world”, 2012 • P. L. Chebyshev’s Mechanisms • “Imaginary. Through the eyes of Mathema- • collection of watches and clocks tics”, 2012 • spacesuits • “Generation Z. The pioneers of music technology in Russia”, 2011 Main research areas: • “Energy and energy ... From the Past to the • “Management of the cultural heritage Future”, 2007 in techniques and scientifical technical knowledge” ICOM Committee CIMUSET

Federal State budget organization of culture “Polytechnical Museum”

101000, Moscow, Novaya sq. 3/4, ent. 1 [email protected] www.polymus.ru General director Boris Saltykov +7 (495) 625 01 07 [email protected] Executive secretary Elena Alexandrova +7 (495) 621 02 90 [email protected]

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reated in 1898. Opened for the public in • works by Rembrandt, Rubens Pushkin State 1912 • Impressionists and post-impressionists C (C.Monet, A.Matisse, P.Picasso, P.Gaugin Museum building design was based on the etc.) Museum of Fine Arts model of a Classical temple on a high podium with an Ionic colonnade along its façade by Main research areas: architect Roman Klein. The interior decoration • housing, attribution and restoration of combined elements drawn from the various works of art historical periods represented by the exhibits • education and popularization

Collection: about 670 000 items Last years’ main projects: • “Inspiration Chanel”, 2007 Main sections of collection: Ancient East, • “Picasso. Moscow”, 2010 Antic, West European and Russian art from • “Inspiration Dior”, 2011 the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, • “Salvador Dali”, 2011 plaster casts, private collections • “Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter“, 2011– 2012 Highlights: • “École de Paris”, 2011 • early 20th c. plaster casts collection, which • “William Blake and British visionary art”, includes all the most important sculp- 2011–2012 ture monuments since ancient times till • “Caravaggio”, 2011–2012 Renaissance • Egyptian art ICOM Committees AVICOM, CECA, CIDOC, • ”Gold from Troy” collection ICFA, ICLM

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts www.arts-museum.ru 119019, Moscow, Volkhonka str., 12 Director Irina Antonova Buildings, branches, departments: +7 (495) 697 69 74 • Main Building [email protected] • Private Collections Department Executive secretary Vadim Gelman • 19 th and 20th Centuries European and American Art +7 (495) 697 46 78 • Ivan Tsvetaev Educational Art Museum [email protected] • Sviatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment International contacts Maria Kostaki • Museum Educational Center +7 (495) 695 62 75 [email protected] [email protected]

72 ICOM Moscow Moscow «Russian valenki» Museum School

traditional Russian winter costume, but a symbol of way of life, traditional crafts, typical land- Ethnography museum scape with its broad and vast expanses. This is a unique (without beginning, without end, stablished in 1995 seamless, with no scar) footwear has long E been loved by all, regardless of rank or class Collection: 800 items

Valenki just as Pavlov Pasad shawl are lately Main sections of collection: traditional tools coming back to fashion among youngsters and utensils; Russian traditional clothing of different provinces; clothing of the former Collection: 400 USSR republics and peoples from all over the world; books on culture, history and tradi- Main sections of collection: Felting Tools and tions; soviet toys; Bogorodskaya wodden toys machines for valenki manufacturing, shoes valence, and art objects made of wool, bast Highlights: pened in December 2001. Brown bear shoes collection, audio-video collection • traditional 3 piece woman costume from greeted the first guests, dancing with Moscow region from 1870-s Ovalenki on the legs. Highlights: • Bogorodskaya wodden toys collection • painted boots end of the 19th century First notes in the book of the Museum • the collection of bast shoes from all Main research areas: greeting the first Deputy Mayor of Moscow regions of Russia in the mid 20th century • over 70 publications on cultural, historical, L. Shevtsova and Mayor of Kazan, K. Iskha- literary events, youth activities etc. kov wrote Last years’ main projects: • Annual festive “Valenki on the snow” Last years’ main projects: Ukraine, Belarus, USA, England, China, The only place in Moscow where a visitor can • “Kraft fair” in Izmailovo Kremlin • Personal Photo Exhibitions in Pskov, Veliki Serbia, Turkey and Italy. The aim of these learn a lot about such subject as valenki and • “Russian miracle”, All-Russian exhibition Novgorod, Moscow, Kargopol, Chicago, meetings and expositions was to help the understand all its implications. Valenki – Russian Center, 2007 Istambul etc. youth to get to know each other and fight traditional winter boots made of valence wool. • “Valenki and fashion”, Fund of folk arts and • “Travelling Museum” Programme – for the the prejudices crafts, 2008 last 17 years around 300 classes were Valenki – comfortable, healing and sometimes arranged in villages and cities of Russia, ICOM Committee ICME irreplaceable shoes. It is not only a symbol of ICOM Committee ICME

School Ethnography Museum

st Museum “Russian valenki” Moscow, 1 Aeportovskaya Str. 1 115114, Moscow, 2-nd Kozevnichesky lane, 12 Director Tamara Ponomareva www.gorizont.org/muzey +7 (499) 156 63 78 [email protected] Director Elvira Garaeva Executive secretary Anastasya Ermakova +7 (910) 402 59 13 +7 (499) 152 86 24 [email protected] [email protected] International contacts Tamara Platonova

74 ICOM 75 ICOM Moscow Moscow Sergey Esenin Museum

Collection: 5850 items

Main sections of collection: manuscripts, rare books, documents etc.

Highlights: • original photographs and personal possessions of S. A. Yesenin and his ambiance • personal possessions of Isadora Duncan

Main research areas: • publishing • run of the seminars

Last years’ main projects: • International Festival “Captain of the Earth” is made due to the semicentenary of the ot its official standing on April 30, 1996 first human space-flight G • Mobile exhibition “Sergey Esenin and Isa- Situated in a memorial house (1891, arch. dora Duncan: Epoch. Destiny. Art” (Prague, M. D. Medvedev) where poet’s father used to Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade, live. House was reconstructed in 1994 upon Sofia, Brussels, Luxemburg, Berlin, Paris) the schemes and documents of the late 19th– early 20th cc. ICOM Committees ICLM, ICDAD

Moscow State Museum of Sergey Esenin 115054, Moscow, No. 24, Building 2, Bolshoy Strochenovskiy side str. [email protected] www.mgme.ru Director Svenlana Shetrakova +7 (495) 688 79 90 [email protected] Executive secretary Yulia Shitikova +7 (495) 688 71 09 [email protected] International contacts Alexandra Shetrakova +7 (916) 620 22 47 [email protected]

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• icon case with Crucifixion and attendant • contemporary architecture studies figures (the so-called Shumaevsky Cross), first half of 18th c. Last years’ main projects: • frescoes from the Troitse-Makariev Monas- • “Heritage at Risk”. Preservation of the tery, 16th – 17th cc. architecture of 20th c. and World heritage. • relief from the Triumphal Arch in Moscow. International conference, 2006 Sculptors: I. P. Vitali, I. T. Timofeev, 1829– • “Lost Avangarde”. Photographs of Richard 1834 Pare, 2006 n October 12th, 1945, soon after the end Collection: 674 793 items • sculptures from the south façade of the • “VKHUTEMAS. Thought is material”, 2010 of World War II, V.M. Molotov signed Church of Christ the Saviour. Sculptor • “The Architect of the Power. To the 120th Oa directive ordering the creation of the Main sections of collection: graphic works; A. V. Loganovsky, 1847–1849 Anniversary of Boris Iofan”, 2011 Republican Museum of Russian Architecture in architectural measurements collection; Moscow. models and miniature models; photographic Main research areas: ICOM Committees COMCOL, ICAMT, ICEE, materials; sculptures; sculptures and re- • history of the architecture studies MPR Museum complex occupies: liefs from destroyed buildings; applied Arts; • Main building of the Talyzin mansion. building materials archive; paintings; engra- 1787, first half of the 19th c. vings and lithographs; rare architecture • Apothecaries Department. 1674–1676 books; architectural archives • Stable. 1787, 1810, second half of 19th – beginning of 20th cc. Highlights: • “The gardener’s house”. Beginning of the • Bazhenov’s model of the Grand Kremlin 18th c., 1787, first half of 19th c. Palace in Moscow

The Shchusev State Museum of Architecture 119019, Moscow, Vozdvizhenka str. bld. 5/25 [email protected] www.muar.ru Director Irina Korobina +7 (495) 691 21 09 Executive secretary Kirill Posternak +7 (495) 691 99 99 International contacts Alisa Bagdonayte +7 (495) 697 38 74

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stablished in 1872 by the initiative of • autographs of Napoleon I and his family State Historical Museum the Committee of the organization of • Terrestrial globe of J. Blau ESevastopol Department of the Polytechnic • parsunas represented the equestrian Exhibition in Moscow. Edifice in socalled tsars Mikhail Fedorovich and Aleksei neo-russian style was built in 1881 specially Mikhailovich, the late 17th century for the Russian Imperial Historical Museum • Star and sign “with diamond ornaments” upon the project of architect O. Sherwood. of the Order of St. Andrew the First Called, It is a cultural heritage site of federal signifi- 1862 cance with a total area of 20 000 m2 • field kitchen of Napoleon I

Collection: 4 800 000 objects, more than Main research areas: scientific research in the 15 000 000 sheets of documentary material field of Russian history and culture, museum source studies, scientific methods of museum Main sections of collection: archaeologi- activity, cultural-enlightenment work, museum cal monuments, woodworks and furniture, pedagogy, information technology in the field precious metals, old Russian paintings, of museology, research of materials and tech- pictorial materials, cartography, book collec- nologies in the area of restoration activities tion, metals and modern synthetic materials, numismatics, arms, written sources, manu- Last years’ main projects: scripts, glass and ceramics, textiles, Lenin • “To the 200th anniversary of the Battle Museum’s funds ofPoltava. June 27, 1709” (a common Russian-Swedish project) Highlights: • “Gods and mortals. From the National • woman’s statue, called “Paleolithic Venus” Museum of Delhi” • wooden cup carved by Peter I‘s own hand, • “The Holy Russia” (inter-museum proj- set in gold ect in Paris, Moscow and St. Petersburg • “Izbornik of Prince Svyatoslav”, 1073 within the framework of the Year of Rus- • Mstislav Gospels, the early 12th c. sia – France) • Grant-charter free from judgment of • “Napoleon and the Louvre” (within the local government given by the Grand Duke framework of the Year of Russia – France) of Moscow and All Russia, Ivan IV (the Terrible) to Lev Petrovich Polikarpov for the ICOM Committees ICDAD, ICEE, CIDOC, lands in the Kolomna district in 1546 ICMAH, ICOFOM, ICOM-CC

Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture Director Alexey Levykin “State Historical Museum” +7 (495) 692 56 60 109012, 1, Red Square, Moscow [email protected] Branches: Executive secretary Larisa Shatsillo • Pokrovsky cathedral (The Cathedral of the Interces- +7 (495) 692 53 10 sion of the Holy Virgin or The Cathedral of saint Basil [email protected] The Blessed), Moscow International contacts Tamara Igumnova • Chambers of Romanov boyars, Moscow +7 (495) 692 22 69 www.shm.ru [email protected]

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(1873–1955) who became the first director of State Literature Museum the Museum. Bonch-Bruevich was a prominent party figure and statesman, member of the RSDLP since 1895, official correspondent of newspapers Iskra, Pravda and Vpered, Managing Director of the Council of People’s Commissars between 1917 and 1920. He

Collection: over 700 000 items

Main sections of collection: manuscript department, book department, art department, personal possessions and applied was wholly committed to museum work. While and decorative art department, department still in exile, Bonch-Bruevich organised a of photography, department of photographic library, archive and museum of the RSDLP in negatives, sound department Geneva. Upon his return to Russia in 1905, he became one of the founders of the first Highlights: museum of Lev Tolstoy in St. Petersburg and • collections of private documents and participated in the creation of Tolstoy exhibi- other belongings of F. M. Dostoyevsky, tion in 1911 in the History Museum; in Soviet A. P. Chekhov, A. I. Herzen, A. A. Blok, reated in 1934 by the merger of the of the RSFSR and the Literature Museum times, he presided over Academic Board of V. V. Mayakovsky, S. A. Essenin, A. N. Tolstoy Central Museum of Fiction, Criticism at the All-Union Lenin Library. The merger the State Museum of Lev Tolstoy in Moscow • first edition of books from Ivan Fyodorov’s Cand Journalism of the People’s Commissariat was initiated by Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich printing house Situated in the Naryshkinskie Palaty of Vysso- • N. V. Gogol’s skullcap kopetrovsky Monastery (15th–18th cc.) • feathers George Sand’s feathers State Museum of Literature • Kornej Chukovsky House Museum (Moscow oblast, d. • I. S. Turgenev’s cane 127051, Moscow, ul. Petrovka, 28 Peredelkino) • first edition of the “Travel from Petersburg www.goslitmuz.ru • Prishvin House Museum (Moscow oblast, d.Dunino) to Moscow” by A. N. Radishchev (the • Affiliated museum Memorial apartments as departments: circulation has been destroyed) • Solghenitsyn House Museum (Stavropolsky kray, • Lermontov House-Museum Kislovodsk) • Herzen Museum Last years’ main projects: th • Dostoyevssky Flat-Museum Director Marina Gomozkova • The Russian Wanderer. To 190 anniver- • Chekhov House-Museum +7 (495) 621 38 57 sary of I. S. Tourgenev. 2008–2009 th • Silver Age of Literature Museum (Brjussov House) [email protected] • Faces of Gogol. To 200 anniversary of • Alexej Tolstoy House Museum Executive secretary Dina Fedina N. V. Gogol. 2009 th • Lunacharsky Studio Museum +7 (495) 680 30 17 • Life Fial. To 140 anniversary of I. A. Bounin. • Boris Pasternak House Museum (Moscow oblast, [email protected] 2010 d. Peredelkino) ICOM Committee ICLM

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• Divine Savior, 12th c. Tretyakov gallery • “Trinity” by Andrei Rublev, 1425–1427 • The collection of paintings of 19 c. • “Suprematist black square” by Casimir Malevich • collection of paintings of the first half of 20th c.

Last years’ main projects: • All-Russian exhibition project “Golden map” • IN CHRIST / IN CHRISTO. Exchange of artistic and spiritual masterpieces between exterior was reconstructed to V. Vasnetsov’s Russia and Italy. Giotto in the Tretyakov design (1902–1904), the private house was Gallery in Moscow, Rublev and Dionysius finally transformed into the public museum in the Baptistery in Florence, 2011–2012 visited by numerous generations • Inter-museum exhibition “Holy Russia”, 2011 Collection: over 160 000 items • Isaac Levitan. On the 150th anniversary of his birth, 2010–2011 Main sections of collection: icon painting, • Alexander Deineka. “To work, to build drawing, painting, sculpture, installations, and do not whine!” Painting. Graphics. video-art, contemporary art. Sculpture

Highlights: ICOM Committees ICFA, Costume, CIMAM, • Our Lady of Vladimir, 12th c. ICOFOM, ICOM-CC, CIDOC

ll-Union (All-Russia since 1994) Museum Pavel Tretyakov purchased the first paintings Association of the State Tretyakov Gallery which started the famous collection. As his Awas founded in 1986 collection grew special outbuildings were built as wings attached to the main build- Tretyakov family bought a house on Lavru- ing’s living quarters which housed works of shinsky Pereulok at the end of 1851. In 1856 art. When Pavel died (1898) and the building

All-Russian Museum Association of the State Tretyakov • House-museum of Victor Vasnetsov Gallery • Memorial Flat of Apollinary Vasnetsov 109017, Moscow, Lavrushinskiy Peryulok, 10 • Memorial Studio of the Sculptor Anna Golubkina • House-Museum of Pavel Korin Buildings, branches, departments: • Museum Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachy • Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val where 20th c. art is [email protected] on display, including world famous collection of Rus- www.tretyakovgallery.ru sian avant-garde. With big exhibition hall • Engineering Building with conference and exhibition General director Irina Lebedeva halls +7 (495) 953 14 16

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romantic “gothic taste”. Tsaritsyno is the • author glass art works of the 19 th c. Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve largest museum-reserve and historical and • collection of modern porcelain cultural monument of the federal level in Moscow, occupying over 700 hectares. The Last years’ main projects: majority of the architectural monuments have • International exhibition project “Liubov already undergone restoration. The palatial Popova, Alexander Rodchenko – main di- grounds have been renovated. The restora- rections of constructivism” (London, Fesa- tion of the Grand Palace, the former great loniki, Madrid, 2009–2010) historical ruin, was completed in 2007. Large- • “Topography of happiness. Russian scale restoration and landscaping of the park wedding: the end of 19th – early 20th and the ponds was also carried out century”, Supported by the German Cultural Center – Goethe institute, with Collection: 52 412 items Oxford and Cambridge Universities (Bread House, 2009) Main sections of collection: subjects of the • “Robert Bateman in Russia” from the modern decorative and applied arts, art heri- collection of the International Fund for Arts tage of the 16th – 20th cc.: paintings, graphics, and Education USA (Bread House, 2010) icons, furniture, tapestries, decorative and • “Gunter Sachs. Photographer and Collec- applied arts tor”, Private collection H. Sachs (Bread House, 2009) Highlights: • collection of tapestries and tapestry ICOM Committee DEMHIST

n the southern part of Moscow, twenty ensemble in Russia – the residence of Cath- minutes away from downtown by car, lay erine the Great constructed between 1775 Ithe lands of the State Museum-Reserve and 1796 by the famous Russian architects Tsaritsyno. Its nucleus is the largest palatial Vasiliy Bazhenov and Matvey Kazakov in the

The State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno 115569, Moscow, Dolskaya str., 1 [email protected] www.tsaritsyno-museum.ru Director Alexander Bezrukov +7 (495) 321 63 66 Deputy director Olga Dokuchaeva +7 (495) 322 16 14

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he oldest scientific, educational and scientific fundaments of mineral raw mate- V. I. Vernadsky State pedagogical center specialized in Earth rial resources base, geoinformatics Tsciences in Moscow. Its history begins in 1759 • world ocean – physical, chemical and biolo- when industry potentat Demidov donated a gical processes, geology, geodynamics Geological Museum collection of minerals to the Imperial Moscow and mineral resources of the oceanic litho- University sphere; the ocean’s contribution in deter- mining the world’s climate Located in the building of 1918

Total area: 5491 m2

Collection: 260 000

Main sections of collection: minerals, rock species and ores, plant kingdom, inverte- brata, vertebrata, manifactured goods, written sources

Main research areas: • evolution of the environment and climate • museology, history and methods of geolo- under the influence of natural and anthro- gical sciences pogenic factors; scientific basics of ratio- • physical fields of Earth – Nature, interac- nal management of natural resources, tra- tions, geodynamics and internal structure ditional and innovatory sources of energy of Earth • minefields geology of useful resources, ICOM Committee CIMUSET

V. I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum of Russian Academy of Sciences 125009, Moscow, Mokhovaya str., 11, bld. 11 www.sgm.ru Director Youri Malyshev, Academincian of the Rus- sian Academy of Science +7 (495) 629 76 91, +7 (495) 629 77 03 [email protected] [email protected] Executive secretary Natalya Bryanchaninova, PhD in geology – mineral sciences, +7 903 222 71 88 [email protected] International contacts Natalya Vishnevskaya +7 (495) 629 76 81 [email protected]

88 ICOM 89 ICOM Moscow Moscow V. A. Tropinin V. V. Mayakovsky Museum and his Contemporary Moscow Artists Museum

stablished in 1969 by a well-known Highlights: Moscow Maecenas of the 20th c. Felix • painting and graphics by V. A. Tropinin EYevgenyevich Vishnevsky. • “Portrait of Matvei Semyonovich Begichev” by I. Ya. Vishnyakov • “Portrait of Count Artemy Ivanovich Voront- sov” by F. S. Rokotov

Main research areas: • art of the 18th – 19th cc.

Last years’ main projects: • 2007 – “Moscow and Muscovites”. Mos- cow museum-estate Ostankino, National Situated in a detached house of the 1st third of Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus the 19th c. that was the main house of the city (Minsk) pened in January 1974 in the house Collection: over 50 000 items merchant estate • 2008 – “The 18th Century – the Century of where poet lived from 1919 to 1930. Martial Glory of Russia”. Museum-Reserve OThe basis of the museum collections were Main sections of collection: documentary Collection: 2744 items “Tsaritsyno” collections of the Library-Museum of fund, graphic materials, Mayakovsky family • 2011 – “O dolce Napoli” – intermuseum V. V. Mayakovsky, opened in 1938 in the foundation, memorial fund, book fund Main sections of collection: painting, graphics, exhibition. State Tretyakov Gallery Mayakovsky (formerly Gendrikov) lane sculpture, porcelain, glassware, furniture, Main research areas: lighting units, ironware, records ICOM Committee CAMOC Reconstruction of the museum, followed by • Mayakovsky heritage study re-exposition conducted in 1987–89 Military Construction Directorate of the KGB, the ICOM Committee ICLM plant-design Decorative Arts and Combinate State budget institution of the city of Moscow of monumental and decorative art “Museum of V. A. Tropinin (1776–1857) and Contemporary Moscow Artists” 119017, Moscow, Shchetininsky lane, bldg. 1, house 10 [email protected] The Literature Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky www.museum.ru/M342 101000, Moscow, 3/6, Lubyanskiy lane Director Irina Yegorova [email protected] +7 (495) 959 10 02 www.mayakovsky.info Executive secretary Tatyana Yakunina Director Svetlana Strizneva International contacts Tatyana Prokushenkova +7 (495) 921 37 28 +7 (495) 959 16 90

90 ICOM 91 ICOM Moscow region MOSCOW REGION A. A. Block Museum-reserve

Inhabitants over 7 000 000

Total area 45 900 km2

Time zone MSK (UTC+04:00)

One object from the UNESCO World Heritage List is located in Moscow region

edicated to the Russian poet Alexander Highlights: Block • Collection of S. Alyashniy (books auto- D graphed by poets and writers of the Silver Includes Shakhmatovo estate and Tarakano- Age, photo) vo village. Suburb-house in Shakhmatovo, • Collection of S. M. Gorodetsky’s materi- where poet was spending every summer, was als (manuscripts, books with autographs, bought by A. N. Beketov, the Saint Petersburg photos, pictures, personal belongings) University’s rector, future poet’s grandfather, in 1874. More than 300 poemswere written Main research areas: heritage of A. Block by influence of Shakhmatovo. And here Block met his love – L. Mendeleeva, the daughter of ICOM Committee ICLM outstanding Russia scientist D. I. Mendeleev. At the end of his life Block named Shakhmato- vo “Native Land”, where be spent his best time The State Historical-literary and Natural Museum-reserve of A. A. Block Manor house was opened in August 2001 141500, Moscow region, Solnechnogorsk, Nabereznaja str., 11 over 23 000 items Collection: +7 (495) 994 04 67 [email protected] personal belong- Main sections of collection: shakchmatovo.amr-museum.ru ings, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, drawings, paintings Director Svetlana Misochnik

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yazemi and Zakharovo estates, situ- Highlights: collection of toys (19th c.), collec- A. S. Pushkin ated near Moscow and occupied by tions of furniture and porcelain Vhistorical-literary museum-reserve, well- know as homeland of Great Russian poet Priority research areas: A. S. Pushkin, study museum-reserve Alexander Pushkin, where his grandmother of the collections, Patriotic war of 1812, Boris used to live Godunov era

Established in 1987 by public initiative and Last years’ main projects: decision of the Ministerial Council of the • “Estate library in the Bolshie Vyazemy” RSFSR • “Pushkin’s childhood” • “The museum of N. A. Konenkovaya. Ate- Located in the Vyazemi and Zakharovo estates lier of a sculptor” (16th – 18th cc.), includes Palace, churches, • “Russian cavalry in the beginning of 19th c.” parks and ponds • “Literary salons in noble estates 19th – 20th cc.” Collection: over 16 000 items • “Golden map of the Moscow region. Exhi- bition of the region’s artists” Main sections of collection: furniture, graphics, painting, books, porcelain, toys, sculpture ICOM Committee: ICLM

State Autonomous institution of culture in Moscow region “State historical-literary museum-reserve of A. S. Pushkin” 143050, Moscow region, Odintsovo district, Bolshie Vyazyomy village [email protected] www.museum-gol.ru Director Alexandr Ryazanov +7 (495) 598 24 47 Executive secretary Yelena Alekseyeva +7 (495) 597 44 80

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he railroad magnate and patron of arts Main sections of collection: painting of the Abramtsevo Savva Mamontov bought Abramtsevo in 19th – 20th cc., graphics of the 19th – 20th cc., T1870. The new owner played host to artists sculpture of the 19th – 20th cc., rare books, Vasily Polenov, Viktor Vasnetsov, Ilya Repin, manuscripts, photos, memorial furniture Ilya Ostroukhov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, Mikhail Nesterov, Mikhail Vrubel and Highlights: Church of the savior (by Vasily Po- other creative personalities who united to an lenov and Viktor Vasnetsov), ceramic works informal community known as the Abramt- by M. A. Vrubel, “Vera Savvishna Mamonto- sevo Colony. Participants of the Colony cre- va’s Portrait” by V. M. Vasnetsov, “Vision to the ated paintings, drawings, sculptures, archi- adolescent Bartholomew” by M. V. Nesterov, tectural projects, decorative and applied art landscapes by V. D. Polenov, works by artists articles. They collected peasant handicrafts of “Jack of diamonds” group and staged amateur performances. The foundation of Abramtsevo joinery and pot- Main research areas: history of the Estate tery started the revival and development of “Abramtsevo”, S. T. Aksakov’s works, works traditional Russian crafts – woodcarving and of artists of the Abramtsevsky artistic circle, majolica. biography of the Mamontov’s family

Museum established in 1918 due to the na- Last years’ main projects: tionalization of the estate “Abramtsevo” • An exhibition “Painting 19th – the beginning of 20th cc.” from Memorial estate Abramt- Situated in the architectural complex 18th – sevo, 2011 19th c.: wooden manor house in Classicism • An exhibition devoted to S. I. Mamontov style, wooden monuments in “russian style”, “The millionaire, the artist and, around, the art nouveau style monuments of 19th c. actor”, 2011–2012

Collection: 28 066 items ICOM Committee ICLM

Federal state cultural establishment «Artistic and literary museum-reserve “Abramtsevo”» 141352, Moscow Region, Sergievo-Posadsky municipal area, Abramtsevo, Museum str., 1 +7 (495) 993 00 33 [email protected] www.abramtsevo.net Director Elena Voronina International contacts Alexey Lebedev, Deputy Director for public relations

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• preparing research materials for the resto- ArkhangelskoYe ration of museum objects • projects for exhibitions inside and outside the museum • teaching materials for museum tours • development of special programs: holi- days, festivals, concerts, etc. • study of the target audience • publication of scientific and popular literature on the history of the estate & art col- Federal State-Financed Organization of Culture lections of the museum “State Museum-Estate “Arkhangelskoye” 143420, Moscow Region, Krasnogorsk District, Projects: Town of Arkhangelskoye • “Jazz estate in Arkhangelskoye”, annual +7 (495) 797 54 52 open-air jazz festival, every June since www.arhangelskoe.su 2004 • “Russian porcelain. Yusupov’s porcelain Director Vladimir Dlugach fabric in Arkhangelskoye 1818–1831”, 2009 +7 (498) 653 86 60 t/f • Restoration of the main Palace until sum- [email protected] mer 2012 Executive secretary Galina Mareseva [email protected] International contacts Lyudmila Kiryushina ICOM Committees DEMHIST, ICOM CC, ICFA [email protected]

useum established in 1919 due to the Main sections of collection: painting, architec- nationalization of the estate “Arkhan- tural graphics, engravings, landscape sculp- Mgelskoye”. Arkhangelskoye belonged to the ture of 18th c., rare books (16th – 20th cc.), prince Golitsinsky’s family until 1809 but in applied art, ceramics (4th c.BC – 20th c. AD), 1810 it was bought by the richest Russian no- porcelain and pottery from Usupov’s fabric, ble the prince Yusupov, who was a collector illuminating equipment, archives, photogra- and patron of art. It took Yusupov 50 years to phy build and decorate the ensemble. He invited such well-known architects as Gern, Tromba- Highlights: European paintings 17th – 19th cc. ro, Pettondi, Gonzago, Bove and others. The (France, Italy and Holland); decorative and first third of the 19th century was the period of applied arts and furniture (18th – 19th cc.); golden age for Arkhangelskoye park sculptures (18th c.); one of Russia’s largest libraries of rare books (roughly 16,000 vol- Ensemble consist of the Church of Michael umes), which are all mostly in French Archangel (1660-s), Palace (1784–1830-s), a terraced park with the world’s largest col- Main research areas: lections of park sculptures, a landscape park, • keeping and cataloguing art collections of a theatre (1817–1818) by Italian architect and the museum; painter Gonzago, etc. • development of concepts for restoration of palace and park ensemble Collection: 31 511 items • museumification of the Palace

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stablished in 1839 to memorize the Battle Borodino Field of Borodino (1812) at a place of decisive Ebattle between two great armies, led by Kutu- zov and Napoleon

Reserved area (112 km2) of relevant cultural landscapes memorizing the events and actions of the Patriotic War 1812 and World War II (1941–1945) comprises more than 200 monuments: fortification sites of the Russian and French armies, 34 monuments to different Russian regiments (1911–1912), historic buildings of the 17th – 20th cc.

World’s oldest battlefield museum locates 120 km west of Moscow

In 2007 the museum was awarded the UNESCO Prize for the preservation and management of cultural landscapes

Collection: over 40 000 Main sections of collection: archeology, weapons, uniforms, paintings, drawings, sculpture, rare books, numismatics, faleristics

Highlights: • archeology collection • paintings by George Dawe

Main research areas: • Patriotic war of 1812 • Patriotic war of 1941–1945

Last years’ main projects: • “Borodino and the Napoleonic Wars. Bat- Federal State Budget Institution of Culture “State tle. Battlefield. Memorials”, international Borodino War and History Museum and Reserve” conference, every five years 143240, Moscow region, Bolodino village • “The War of 1812. Sources. Monuments. Branches: Problem”, annual conference, since 1993 • Museum of local history, Mozhaysk • International Festival “Borodino Day’, • House-museum of artist Gerasimov, Mozhaysk since 1982 [email protected] • The mobile museum “No wonder the whole www.borodino.ru of Russia remembers ...” Director Cherepashenec Mikhail +7 (496 38) 6 32 23 ICOM Committee ICOMAM

100 ICOM 101 ICOM Moscow region Moscow region Dubna Museum Korolev Historical Museum of Science and Engineering History

irthday of the Museum – 13 March, 1993 cheryakov, the first director and founder of when the exhibition dedicated to JINR’s Dubna the Scientific; Photoemulsive cham- Bhistory and achievements was opened in two ber, a device, which was used in first ex- halls of the Polytechnic museum in Moscow periments on the Dubna Synchrocyclotron in 1949. A gift of M. Meshcheryakov to the Mu- Museum comprises: constant exposition hall (37 seum; calculating device – a predecessor of sq.m.), temporary expositions hall (52 sq.m.) computers

Collection: 40 scientific devices and models Main research areas: of experimental settings, 30 photo stands, • to save the history of Joint Institute’s cre- audio and film collection, typescript archives, ation and development in the museum’s library exposition and stock • to keep the memory of JINR’s important Main sections of the collection: history of Dub- scientific and technical achievements na’s creation; history of the scientific center’s • to honour the memory of outstanding sci- creation; personalities of scientific Dubna; entists who worked in Dubna basic experimental installations of JINR – • popularize among the pupils and students Synchrocyclotron-Phasotron, Synchropha- the scientific knowledge accounting for sotron, pulse reactors: IBR-1, IBR-30, IBR-2; the Institute’s activities development of computing and information • to conduct seminars, exhibitions, excur- technics; synthesis of superheavy elements sions in G. Flerov Laboratory • to document important events of current pened in 2005 to scale to reflect the con- graphs, documents, books, household items, activity of the Institute tribution of the inhabitants of the city to paintings, graphics Highlights: personal microscope of Academi- Othe development defense and space technol- cian I. Kurchatov, who donated it to M. Mesh- ICOM Committees CIMUSET, ICLM ogy. In 2009 the Historical Museum included ICOM Committee ICOMAM Museum of Local History

“Kostino estate”, among the own- Science and Engineering History Museum of Joint Includes 142206, Moscow region, Korolev, Ilicha str., 6 ers of which were Dolgorukov and descen- Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) +7 (495) 516 60 66 dants of princes Gagarin. The last owner of 141980, Moscow region, Dubna, 6, Flerov str. the estate – a major dealer A. N. Kraft – left Branch: “Kostino estate” + 8 (496) 216 58 31 in 1918, after which the farm was located [email protected] [email protected] here [email protected] www.museum.jinr.ru kim.korolev-culture.ru Director N. S. Kavalerova Main sections of collection: military equip- Director Maksim Gusev [email protected] ment, small arms, artillery weapons, engi- +7 (495) 516 66 14 neering equipment, aircraft models, photo-

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stablished on 14th March, 1940 – after Melikhovo. A. P. Chekhov the decision of Mosoblispolkom “About Ethe opening of a museum of A. P. Chekhov in Melikhovo of Lopasnya area” as branch Museum-reserve of Serpukhov Historical museum. Before that the artist B. A. Protoklitov visited Melikhovo in 1937 and saw the place in a state of extreme neglect. B. A. Protoklitov wrote the letter to V. D. Bonch-Bruevich who was the director of the State Literary museum. Bonch-Bruevich answered and submitted the petition to Nar- kompros department. In 1960 museum became autonomous

Collection: 28 974 items Last years’ main projects: • “The Chekhovs – ways to the present Main sections of collection: painting; drawing; time”. Germany, Munich. 2005 sculpture; subjects of applied art, life and eth- • “Hello, Mister Chekhov” (“Chekhov’s Se- nography subjects; rare books; documents cret”) France, Avignon. 2010 and others. • “Chekhov”. Russia. Moscow. 2010 • The intermuseum exhibition project Highlights: private belongings of A. P. Chek- “A. P. Chekhov. Variations on love theme”. hov, a cap of E. Y. Chekhova, a theatrical suit- The project was made together with the case of O. L. Knipper-Chekhova, A. P. Chek- State Literary Museum, Museum of Mos- hov’s signatures, painting of V. D. Polenov cow Art Theatre, Library of A. P. Chekhov – and I. I. Levitan, shorthand: V. J. Levental, the Chekhovian cultural-educational cen- E. T. Stenberg, E. I. Kumankov ter. Russia, Melikhovo. 2007 • Melikhovo routes. A guide for the country Main research areas: Chekhov heritage, side walk lovers, 2011 working with archives for creation of new ex- State Independent Institution of Culture positions, drawing up of catalog collections ICOM Committees ICLM, CIDOC «State Literature Memorial Museum-estate of A. P. Chekhov “Melikhovo”» 142326, Moscow oblast, Chekhovsky region, Melikhovo Branches: Estate “Lopasnya-Zachatevskoe” [email protected] www.chekhov-melikhovo.com General director Konstantin Bobkov +7 (496) 723 64 53 [email protected] Executive secretary Tatyana Razumovskaya +7 (499) 270 78 01 International contacts Yulia Balabanova +7 (903) 715 72 03 [email protected]

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On December 10th, 1919 Narkompros Board Muranovo for protection the monuments of art and antiquities decided to found “the Museum in the name of F. I. Tjutchev” in Tjutchev’s manor situated near Moscow – in Muranovo. Museum is situated in the estate of the mid. 19th c.

Collection: 30 914 items

Main sections of collection: • the memorial collection about the life and activity of the great Russian poet and diplomat F. I. Tyutchev • the memorial collection about the life and activity of outstanding romantic poet E. A. Boratynsky • the memorial collection about the life and activity of the writer, philosopher, the Slavophile and politician I. S. Aksakov • collection of daguerreotypes and photos E. A. Boratynsky. Birch, beginning of the • collection of Russian and West European 1840s. painting of 18th – 20th cc. • Chocolate service “Egoist”. Porcelain of the • collection of Russian and West European Mejsensky manufactory, the 1750–1760-s. porcelain and glass of 18th – 19th cc. • The Bibles, or The Books of the Holy Scrip- • memorial library of the owners of the es- ture. Volume four “The New Testament”. tate 18th – beginning of the 20th cc. Supposedly 1813–1826. • archive documents and manuscripts (Rus- • Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les sia, Germany, France) arts … T.9. – Paris. 1799. Volume of the iterary estate” Muranovo was conse- Today it is a complex of literary and everyday French encyclopedia of the 18th century quently owned by four families that were life memorials of two great Russian poets, with ill. and insets. “Lrelated to each other and were active par- Yevgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844) and Feodor • Buffon. Histoire naturelle des Poissons. ticipants of Russian literary and cultural life. Tyutchev (1803–1873) T. 68. Paris, 1799. 20 ill. • Main research areas: life and creative work of E. A. Boratynsky, life and creative work of F. I. Tjutchev, history and a culturologi- State autonomous cultural institution of Moscow region cal role of the Russian noble estate of the “The Feodor Tyutchev State Museum Muranovo” 19th c. 141250, Moscow region, Pushkin municipal region, Muranovo Last years’ main projects: [email protected] • “Russian and West European porcelain” www.museum.ru/muranovo Highlights: (the All-Russia Museum of Arts and crafts), Director Igor Komarov • A. N. Nadarzhinsky. Paint. F. S. Rokotov. • “Lev Tolstoi and Feodor Tyutchev”, 2011 +7 (496) 531 81 80 Canvas, oil, 1780-s • “Creative work in the manor”, 2011 Executive secretary Tatyana Potapenko • The written table-bureu made by Murano- International contacts Vladimir Patsukov vo’ master after the drawings of the poet ICOM Committees DEMHIST, ICLM, ICOMAM

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• Portrait of M. F. Zotova. F. S. Rokotov, 1780-s New Jerusalem • Portrait of Princess M. F. Baryatinskaya with her daughter Olga, R. Lefevr, 1817 • Portrait of a Youngman, unknown Flemish artist, 17th c.

Priority research areas: history of the New Jerusalem Resurrection monastery, problems of restoration, history, culture and natural heritage in the Moscow region, archeological studies of the Moscow region, study of the museum’ collections

Last years’ main projects: • “Patriarch Nikon and his time”. Exhibi- tion in the State museum of History and in the museum “New Jerusalem” jointly with federal museums and archives, 2005–2006 • “20th century of Russian art in the collection of museum “New Jerusalem””, 2008 • “Russian art of the 18th – 20th cc. from the collection of the museum “New Jerusalem”. Exhibition in the State Tretyakov gallery with • “I came back, my address is Voskre- in the project “Golden map of Russia”, 2010 sensk…”, exhibition to 150th anniversary of • “Saint Russia”, participation in the exhibi- A. P. Chekhov. Museum “New Jerusalem”, tion in Louver (France, 2010), State Tretya- 2010–2011 kov gallery (Moscow), Russian museum stablished in 1920 after the liquidation of rare books, weaponry, documents, items of (St. Petersburg), 2011–2012 ICOM Committees – ICFA the New Jerusalem monastery of Resur- history of technics, printed press items Erection Highlights: State budget institution of culture of the Moscow Located on the premises of the architectural • Portrait “Patriarch Nikon with the frater- region «Museum of history, architecture and art “New complex of the New Jerusalem monastery of nity of the Resurrection monastery”, mid. Jerusalem”» Resurrection of 17th c. In 2013 the museum is 17th c. 143500, Moscow region, Istra, Sovetskaya str., 2 supposed to be relocated in a new building, • Panagia of Patriarch Nikon, Christian East, +7 (495) 994 56 43 equipped with modern museological infra- 15th – first half of the 17th cc. [email protected] structure: storage areas, exposition spaces, • Altar cross. Donation of Tsar Alexei Mi- www.музей-новый-иерусалим.рф kid’s center and recreational area chailovich to the Church of St. Alexius the www.museum-newjerusalem.ru God’s man in Novgorod according to a pe- Director Natalya Abakumova Collection: about 170 000 tition of Metropolitan Nikon in 1652. Executive secretary Sergey Zavyalov • Cypress model of the Holy Sepulchre, International contacts Nadezhda Usmanova th Main sections of collection: paintings, graph- mid.17 c. (responsible for promotion and scientific-pedagogical ics, sculpture, decorative and applied arts, • Portrait of Princess Smaragda (?) Kantemir programs and projects) th every day life ethnographic items, archeology, I. Nikitin, 18 c. +7 (496) 314 65 49

108 ICOM 109 ICOM Moscow region Moscow region Ostafyevo P. I. Tchaikovsky Memorial House

ounded on 9th of December of 1894, when after P. I. Tchaikovsky’s death in 1893 his Fyounger brother M. I. Tchaikovsky took the decision to turn his house in Klin into a memorial museum

Collection: 206 535 items

Main sections of collection: P. I. Tchaikovsky’s personal fund; collection of the materials reflecting life of Tchaikovsky; unique materials useum is disposed on the territory of the Collection: 15 800 items on history of Russian musical culture; collec- formerly noble Ostafyevo country estate. tion of materials on history of the International MFor more than 100 years Ostafyevo belonged Main sections of collection: Russian fine arts P. I. Tchaikovsky Competition; book and musi- to the same family – four generations of the of the 17th – 20th cc., West European fine arts cal funds; photography Vyazemsky princes. From 1898 Ostafyevo be- of the 16th – 19th cc., applied art of Russia, longed to Sheremetev family. The great Rus- Europe, countries of the East of the 18th – Highlights of collection: P. I. Tchaikovsky’s sian historian Nikolai Karamzin spent twelve 20th cc., archeology, documents, rare books autographs, P. I. Thaikovsky’s grand piano, Main research areas: studying and publica- years in Ostafyevo working on his famous “His- art works of K. E. Makovsky’s (Portrait of tion of P. I. Tchaikovsky’s heritage, museum tory of the Russian State”. Throughout the nine- Main research areas: history of Vyazemsky A. V. Panayeva-Kartseva) and well-known collections teenth century Ostafyevo was closely linked and Sheremet’ev families theatrical artists V. J. Levental, B. A. Mes- with such names like Alexander Pushkin, Vasily serer ICOM Committee ICLM Zhukovsky, Adam Mitskevich, Alexander Gri- Projects: Traditional festivals of poetry are boedov and many others. The exposition “The annually held in Ostafyevo to mark Pushkin’s The State Autonomous Institution for Culture of Mos- Ostafyevo’s persons” and exhibitions of mod- birthday cow Region “P. I. Tchaikovsky State Memorial House” ern painters are open in the Museum 141600, Moscow Region, Klin, 48 ICOM Committee ICLM Tchaikovsky Str. Museum was opened in 1899 [email protected] www.russianmuseums.info/m443 Director Galina Belonovich Ostafyevo State Museum-estate “The Russian Parnassus” +7 (49624) 2 12 94 142131, Moscow region, Ostafyevo village, post dep. [email protected] Ryazanovo, Podolsk region [email protected] +7 (495) 719 65 65 Executive secretary Natalya Gorbunova [email protected] +7 (49624) 5 81 96 www.ostafyevomuseum.ru [email protected] International contacts P. E. Vaidman Director Anatoly Korshikov +7 (49624) 2 12 03 [email protected]

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stablished in 1918. Its displays are housed Serpukhov Museum in the former mansion of the local merchant Ewoman A. Marayeva, whose collection provided the basis for the museum. After the opening of of Art and History the museum, new items came in from the State Museum Fund, Moscow museums and the nationalized property of the former estates of the nobility. Since 1988 under the authority of a museum there is the “Pokrov” old believers church • “Women with a rake” by N. Goncharova, (1908–1912) located in the neighborhood 1907 • “Eruslan Lazarevic” by S. Konenkov, 1913 Located in the former mansion of Serpukhov’s • “Ievfaya Sacrifice” by Charles Le Brun merchants and textile manufacturers Maraev (France), about 1656 (1896, arch. R. I. Kleyn) • Main research areas: history of Serpukhov and its region, collection attribution Collections: 41 200 items Last years’ main projects: Main sections of collection: iconography, • “Golden map of Russia. Russian art of the Russian fine arts of the 17th – 20th cc., West 1870–1910 from the collection of the Ser- European fine arts of theth 16 – 19th cc., pukhov museum historical and art”. The applied art of Russia, Europe, countries of the State Tretyakov Gallery, March–April 2008 East of the 15th – 20th cc, archeology, docu- • “History in a mirror of the European art of ments, rare books the 19th c.” The Pushkin State museum of fine arts, November 2009 – February 2010 Highlights: • “RUSSIAN AVANT-GUARD” Albergo del- • Icon of St. Nicholas of Myra with scenes le Povere (Palermo, Sicily), December from his life, Novgorod, 15th c. 2011 – March 2012. Dell’ Area Pacis Au- • “Under the Crown” by K. Makovsky, 1890 gustias (Rome, Italy), April–July 2012 • “Song of the slave” by H. Semiradsky, 1884 • “The revived masterpieces”, Serpukhov • “Knight at the Crossroads” by V. Vas- Museum of Art and History. September netsov, 1878 2010 – December 2011 • “Moonlightnight. Swamp” by A. Savrasov, 1870 ICOM Committee: ICFA

Serpukhov Museum of Art and History 142206, Moscow region, Serpukhov, Chekhova str., 87 Branch: Old believers church “Pokrov” [email protected] serpuhov-museum.ru Director Ludmila Gafurova +7 (4967) 35 24 19 Executive secretary Vera Pansheva +7 (4967) 35 17 53

112 ICOM 113 ICOM Moscow region Moscow region Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum

venigorod is one of the most ancient towns • Artistic wreck work of the 19th c. of Moscow region, it is famous for the ar- Zchitectural complex of Savva Storozhevsky Main research areas: history of Zvenigorod Monastery founded in 1398 by a disciple of and its region Venerable Sergius of Radonezh Savva. Now it houses collections of the Zvenigorod His- ICOM Committee INTERCOM torical, Architectural and Art Museum. The Monastery ensemble within the mighty fortress wall carefully restored by the Museum in the course of fifty years, is composed of the unique white-stone Nativity Cathedral (1405) with surviving frescoes of the 15th century and iconostasis of the 17th c., monuments of the 17th c. civil architecture, Tsar Palace and Chambers constructed during the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich

Collection: over 50 100

iconography, Main sections of collection: Zvenigorod Historical, Russian fine arts of the 17th – 20th cc., West Arhitectural and Art Museum European fine arts of theth 16 – 20th cc., applied art of Russia of the 15th – 20th cc., 143180, Moscow region, Zvenigorod archeology, documents, rare book, textile +7 (495) 992 94 92 [email protected] zvenist-muz.narod.ru Highlights: • Iconostasis of the middle 17th c. Director Galina Stoenko

114 ICOM 115 ICOM Moscow region St. Petersburg Zaraysky Kremlin SAINT PETERSBURG

Founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27th of May 1703. From 1713 to 1728 and from 1732 to 1918, Saint Petersburg was the Imperial capital of Russia. In 1918 the central government bodies moved from Saint Petersburg (then named Petrograd) to Moscow

Historic Center of the city and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Population about 5 000 000

Total area 1439 km2

Time zone MSK (UTC+04:00)

rchitectural monument of the middle of the Collection: 25 963 items 16th c. It was built by order of the Tsar and AGrand Prince of Moscow Vassily III of Moscow at Main sections of collection: collection of paint- the same time the first stone of St. Nicholas Ca- ings, sculpture, graphics, textiles, crafts and thedral was laid in the 1528–1531, but repeat- decorative arts of Russia, Western Europe, edly repaired and reconstructed. So its original Japan and China; Russian painting of 18th – appearance has been lost to some extent early 20th cc.

Museum was opened in October 1918. In Highlights: provincial Merchant portrait of 19th December 1924 natural-historical, cultural c., collection of furniture 17th – early 20th cc. and historical museums have been combined ICOM Committee ICDAD

Historical, Architectural, Art and Archaeological Museum “Zaraysky Kremlin” 142206, Moscow region, Zaraysk, Revolution sq., 2 +7 (49666) 2 57 34 Branches: • Memorial house of A. Golubkina • Museum-estate of F. M. Dostoevsky in Darovoe village [email protected] www.museumzaraysk.ru Director Irina Bogolubskaya Executive secretary Olga Pantukhina

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Situated in a monument of history and cul- telegraph and telephone communication; ra- A. S. Popov Central Post ture of federal importance (1782–1799, arch. dio communication and radio broadcasting, Giacomo Quarenghi) – the former Palace television, mobile, space and sputnik com- of important state and political person, as- munication; stamp collection of the Russian and Communication Museum sistant to the Empress Catherine the Great, Federation, collection of art novelties created Prince Alexander Andreyevich Bezborodko by modern artists (1747–1799). Palace was rebuilt two times in 1837. Then fundamental rebuilding of the edi- Highlights: fice took place in 1870. Its fronts and interiors • stamps of Russia were rebuilt. Since that time the fronts of the • old travelling papers and the Tzar’s de- houses remained practically unchanged crees • the first radio set created by A. S. Popov • geostationary communication sputnik “Luch-15”

Main research areas: • history of post stamps • history of postal, radio, phone, telegraph and computer communication

Last years’ main projects: • World stamp exhibition “Saint Peters- Reopened for the visitors in December 2003 burg-2007” after a 30-year pause, which was caused by • Exhibitions from the funds of the museum the critical state of the building. The restora- in 2009–2011: “Saved exhibits”, “New action of the building in 2001–2003 was accom- quisitions of 2009–2010”, “Contribution panied by creation of the fund of open pres- of Communication specialists to Victory”, ne of the oldest scientific-and-technical rector, private councellor, honorary member of ervation “The Treasury of Russian stamps”; “Through years and distances…”, “Listen, museums of the world the Emperor’s Academy of Sciences of Saint the territories of internal yards of the build- My country!” O Petersburg. The first exhibits of the museum ing were transformed into modern atriums, • Mobile exhibition “Alfred Nobel: networks Founded in 1872 by an initiative of Karl Lued- were the devices of Telegraph Department of enabling to broaden the exhibition spaces of innovations” organized jointly with the ers (1815–1882), Telegraph Department Di- the Polytechnic Exhibition in Moscow of 1872 and the zone of museum services; certain Nobel family museum and displayed in work regarding the conservation of state- A. S. Popov Central Post and Communica- rooms of the palace was performed. Modern tion Museum, 2009 Federal State Budget Institution “A. S. Popov engineering infrastructure has been created • Mobile exhibition “Legacy of Nansen” orga- Central Post and Communication Museum” in the museum building, which provides for nized jointly with the Oslo University and de- 190000, Saint Petersburg, 7 Pochtamtskaya system of ventilation and air-conditioning, voted to development of exploring northern [email protected] including the support of climatic conditions regions from Nansen’s times to the present www.rustelecom-museum.ru in the rooms, in which the funds are preserved day, took place in A. S. Popov Central Post Director Liudmilla Bakayutova and Communication Museum, 2010 +7 (812) 315 48 73 Collection: 8 505 473 items • Active part in the preparation of the new mu- [email protected] seum site at the territory of Peterhof reserve International contacts Natalia Bruckmueller Main sections of collection: collection, devot- museum “Royal Telegraph Station”, 2011 +7 (812) 571 92 48 ed to history of communication means evolu- [email protected] tion, consists of exhibits on history of postal, ICOM Committees CIMUSET, INTERCOM

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Located in the Electrotechnical institute of Main research areas: A. S. Popov the Emperor Alexander III (nowadays, the St • history of the beginning of radio engineer- Petersburg State Electrotechnical university ing and electronics development (science, “LETI”), 1903, arch. A. N. Vekshinsky, and education, industry) in Russia and in the Memorial Museum the dwelling house for the teachers of LETI rest of the world (1903)

Collection: over 10 000 items

Main sections of collection: collection of wireless telegraphy apparatus and physical apparatus; A. S. Popov’s personal belongings and documents (letters, drafts of articles); photographs made by Popov; printed materials devoted to the beginning of radio engineering development; Popov’s family • scientific international contacts in the field library of radio engineering at the beginning of the 20th c. Highlights: • radio communication development at the • A. S. Popov’s apparatus of 1896 Navy and in the Army • A. S. Popov’s message receiver • development of radio amateur movement • A. S. Popov’s Russian patent on the mes- • influence of radio engineering on the so- sage receiver ciety • A. S. Popov’s correspondence with the French engineer-entrepreneur E. Ducretet ICOM Committee: CIMUSET

edicated to the life and work of versary of LETI. A. S. Popov daughters, his rela- Russian scientist and inventor of the tives and LETI professors collected documents Dradio A. S. Popov and artifacts

Opened in 1948 according to the USSR govern- Consist of Memorial museum-laboratory and ment decision to commemorate the 50th anni- Memorial museum-apartment of A. S. Popov

The A. S. Popov Memorial Museum of the St. Petersburg electrotechnical university “LETI” 197376, Saint Petersburg, Prof. Popov str., 5 +7 (812) 234 59 00, +7 911 710 05 68 www.eltech.ru Director Larisa Zolotinkina [email protected] Executive secretary Mikhail Partala +7 (921) 742 27 59 [email protected]

120 ICOM 121 ICOM St. Petersburg St. Petersburg A. S. Pushkin Main research areas: Pushkin’s heritage Last years’ main projects: • “Extinguished the fire on the altar...” for National Museum the 170th anniversary of the death of A. Pushkin, 2007 • “Why, he was wonderful... the valley” for the 220th anniversary of K. Batyuskov, 2007 • Living for centuries in folk greatness for the 225th anniversary of the V. A. Zhukovsky and the 190th anniversary of the Emperor Alexander II. Together with the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), 2008 • Russian family legends. From the Col- lection of the All-Russia Museum of A. S. Pushkin, 2009 • The French Enlightenment and Russian Ly- ceum at Tsarskoye Selo. The 300th anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo (2010) and the 200th anniversary of the Imperial Lyceum (2011) of the poet’s family and his contempo- in the Year of Russia, France, 2010. From raries. the Collection of the All-Russia Museum of A. S. Pushkin. Versailles (France), 2010 All the branches are situated in the historical buildings of the 18th – 19th cc. ICOM Committees ICR, ICLM, ICOM-CC

Collection: about 160 000

Main sections of collection: iconographic materials, memorial, visual, historical and ev- ne of the oldest and largest literary Pushkin Museum at the Imperial Alexander eryday materials of Pushkin’s era, as well as museums in the country. This museum (formerly Tsarskoe Selo) Lyceum of which paintings, drawings and sculptures of artists Ohad been formed gradually, and each of Pushkin was a graduate. It was founded in of the 19th and 20th cc. the museums has its own history. The Na- 1879 by the pupils of the Pushkin course, tional Pushkin Museum originates from the other graduates and professors, members Highlights: • vital portraits of A. Pushkin and his per- • Pushkin Country House Museum sonal belongings State budgetary cultural institution “The National • Nekrasov Apartment Museum • vital portraits of contemporaries of A. Push- Pushkin Museum” • Derzhavin Estate Museum kin 191186, Saint Petersburg, Moyka Naberezhnaya, 12 [email protected] • memorabilia of contemporaries of A. Pushkin Branches: www.museumpushkin.ru • collection of paintings, drawings and • Literary monographic exhibition “Alexander Pushkin. th th Director Serguey Nekrasov sculptures of the 19 and 20 cc., on Life and Creative Work” +7 (812) 571 38 01 Pushkin’s era • Pushkin Apartment Museum International contacts Tatiana Mokhova • collection of rare books (Pushkiniana life- • Lyceum Museum th +7 (812) 312 12 92 time, the publication of the 18 c.)

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pened in 1989, a century after the birth Main research areas: Memorial museum of the poet • edition of materials of memories about stablished in 1898 by public initiative in O Akhmatova and publications of the ma- connection with the upcoming centenary Located in the southern terials received from private family Eof Suvorov’s death. Proposal was supported wing of the Sheremete- meetings by Emperor Nikolay II vsky palace (19th c.) • working out and realization of complex museum projects Situated in the building looks like a stylized Includes The Anna • gathering and storage of the ma- part of Russian medieval fortress designed Akhmatova Museum at terials connected with life and cre- especially for Suvorov’s museum (1904 by The Fountain House, The ativity of Anna Akhmatova and her A. I. Gogen). Museum was built with funds American study of Jo- nearest environment of folk and army – 350 000 silver rubles sef Brodsky, The Memo- were collected. The building is decorated by rial museum-apartment of Last years’ main projects: metal decorations and mosaics. Museum has L. N. Gumilev • Interactive exhibition project 5 halls, connected with large doorways. “Christmas at The Fountain Collection: 47 508 items House”, annually since 1997 on Total space: 650 m2 the present • Engelgard’s compilation Main sections of collection: Fund of graphic • Festival “Children’s Days in Petersburg”, Collection: over 55 000 items and 50 000 materials, Arts and crafts, Posters and print- annual interactive exhibitions items of tin war miniatures Main research areas: ing materials, Books, Documentary photo- • Exhibition “Modigliani at The Fountain • life, actions and heritage of A. V. Suvorov graphs, Documents and autographs, Scien- House”, October, 8th – November, 5th , Main sections of collection: weaponry, numis- tifical auxiliary fund 2008 matics, faleristics, pictorial art, decorative Last years’ main projects: • The exhibition project “What is the war?” and applied arts, equipment, printed graph- • Exhibition “Alexandres” with State Pushkin Highlights: Akhmatova portraits work of (Together with Muzeem Serlakius the city ics, books, banners, tin miniatures museum the l. Della-vos-Kardovsky, Z. Serebrja- of Mjaantta Finland) February, 28th – May, • Exhibition “Generalissimo Suvorov” in Lap- kova, K. Petrov-Vodkin (sketch), N. Tyrsa, 8th, 2011 Highlights: penraanta, Finland A. Tyshler, her original belongings, books with • Memorial belongings of A. V. Suvorov • Exhibition in Tutrakan, Bolgaria autographs, manuscripts ICOM Committee ICLM • gifts of Nikolay II and V. Molostov, great- great-grandson of the commander ICOM Committees ICMS, DEMHIST, ICOMAM The Anna Akhmatova literary-memorial museum Saint Petersburg, Liteyny pr., 53 [email protected] akhmatova.spb.ru State budget-funding cultural institution “State memorial museum of A. V. Suvorov” Director Nina Popova +7 (812) 272 18 11 191015, Saint Petersburg, Kirochnaya str., 43 [email protected] [email protected] Executive secretary Leonid Kopylov www.suvorovmuseum.ru +7 (812) 272 57 58 Director Aleksandr Kuzmin [email protected] +7 (812) 274 13 57 International contacts Maria Korosteleva [email protected] +7 (812) 272 58 95 [email protected]

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ounded in August 29, 1703, when by Pe- Highlights: or the first time the museum is mentioned simultaneous interpretation, large recreation ter the Great’s decree a special Zeughaus • ceremonial kettle-drum chariot for carrying in the Peter the Great letter, written on area. Before 2011 museum was located in the F(Ger. – Military storehouse for armaments, the banner of the artillery FJanuary 24, 1709 Stock Exchange Building (1816, designed by uniforms, equipment, etc.) was built on the • small cannons of poteshnyi regiments of Thomas de Thomon) territory of the St. Petersburg (Peter-and- boys-soldiers under Peter I Paul) fortress for the purpose of storing and • military awards of Russian Emperors Collection: 718 394 items preserving old guns and cannons • gifts to regiments of the Russian Army, ar- tistically designed silverware and goods Main sections of collection: ship model, ship Located on the territory of Kronwerk, a memo- made of crystal, including those produced drawing, armed, documents store, fine arts, rable place of Petrovian St. Petersburg. Kro- by the Faberge Company banner and uniform, photography, store for nwerk was originally designed in 1705–1708 • personal arms of Alexander I, Nicholas II, special items. as fortifying system element for the St. Peters- Ottoman Platov, Napoleon Bonaparte, burg fortress. It was intended to protect the Marshall J. Murat, Russian and Soviet mili- Highlights: fortress from the North in case of a possible tary commanders • Boat of Peter the Great attack by Swedes. Cadet Corps are situated • Original submarine of Dzhevetsky S. proj- in the historical center of St. Petersburg in the Main research areas: ect building of the Malta Chapel (1800 by Giaco- • preservation and study of the history of Situated is the former caserne Kryukovsky • I–16 fighter, belongs to Safonov B. (famous mo Quarenghi). It is being included in the en- artillery (1844–1852, designed by I. Chernik; build- marine pilot, twice awarded the Gold Star semble of buildings of the Vorontsov Palace • history of engineering and Signal Corps ing was under reconstruction by the architect of Hero of the Soviet Union) A. Mironov in 2009). A typical example of the Collection: about 850 000 items Last years’ main projects: early eclecticism in architecture. Main research areas: • “Weapons of East 16th – 19th cc.”, 2012 • study of museum collections Main sections of collection: artillery arma- • “Battle on Ice” to the 770th anniversary of Museum complex consists of three integrated • history of the Russian fleet ments and ammunition, rifles and cold steels, the Battle on the Ice, 2012 buildings, forming a closed triangle with in- • history of the memorial museum-ships military-engineering equipment, signal • “Animals in War”, 2011 ternal covered courtyard, and includes: ex- • museum education means, combat banners, military uniforms, • “Sappers His Majesty”, 2011 hibition space, a cinema with a capacity of • museum management works of battle painting and drawing, insig- 40 persons, conference room, seating up to nia, archival documents ICOM Committee ICOMAM 300 people, with the presence of booths for ICOM Committees ICEE, INTERCOM

Federal State Institution of Culture and Art, “The Cen- The Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer tral Naval Museum” Russian Defense Ministry and Signal Corps 191186, Saint Petersburg, Truda Sq., 5 191186, Saint Petersburg, Aleksandrovskii Park, 7 Branches: Branches: The Museum of History of Russian Military • Cruiser “AURORA” Schools (Cadet Corps) • Museum “Kronstadt Fortress” [email protected] • Memorial museum «Submarine D-2 “Narodovoletz”» www.artillery-museum.ru • Museum “Road of life” +7 (812) 328 27 01 t/f Director Valerii Krylov [email protected] +7 (812) 610 33 03 www.navalmuseum.ru International contacts Svetlana Uspenskaia +7 (812) 498 07 45 Director Andrey Lyalin [email protected]

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temporaries. In the basis – valuable materi- • genealogy of Dostoevsky family Dostoevsky Museum als gathered by the writer’s grandson Andrey • Dostoevsky’s Petersburg Dostoevsky, the donations of his descen- • Dostoevsky’s iconography dants, acquisitions from private collections as • Dostoevsky’s influence on contemporary well as relics provided by state museums literature and art

Collection: 37 056 items Last years’ main projects: • Mobile exhibition “Travelling with Dosto- Includes writer’s memorial flat, literary exhi- evsky” (the exhibition was presented in bition dedicated to the writer’s life and work, St. Petersburg, Oslo, Florence, Naples, 2 exhibition halls for temporal exhibitions of Ohrid (Macedonia)), 2008 contemporary art, a theatre hall and storages • New permanent Literary Exhibition “F. M. Dostoevsky. Life and Work”. The Highlights: exhibition was awarded the Prize of • autograph: Dostoevsky’s letter to Praskov- St. Petersburg Government “For achieve- ia Annenkova from Semipalatinsk (1855) ments in the field of museum activity”, • Dostoevsky’s inscriptions on books and 2010 photographs • Exhibition “Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo • writer’s memorial items Tolstoy”, 2010 • tobacco box belonging to Dostoevsky with • 2007–2011: eight new performances by an inscription by the his daughter FMD-Theatre (Theatre of Dostoevsky • Anna Dostoevskaya’s wedding ring Museum), among which two performances – participants of international Main research areas: theatre festivals – New Drama Festival pen November 13, 1971, year of the Dostoevsky rented flat twice: in 1846 and • international conference “Dostoevsky and and Golden Mask Festival: performanc- 150th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth from October 1878 until the day of his death World Culture” – every year in November, es “Panic”, “Europe makes me feel like O on January 28, 1881. It was in this house that and a journal of the same name is pub- a beast” Museum occupies the basement of the dwell- his last novel “The Brothers Karamazov” was lished with the conference proceedings ing house (1842–1845, arch. A. Lamoni, 1882, written. The flat reconstruction was based on (28 issues published) ICOM Committees ICLM arch. V. von Witt – reconstruction), where the memoirs of Dostoevsky’s wife and con-

Fyodor Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum (Dostoevsky Museum) 191002, Saint Petersburg, Kuznechny pereulok, 5/2 +7 (812) 571 40 31 www.md.spb.ru vk.com/feed#/id17539246 facebook.com/1238622364 Director Natalya Ashimbaeva [email protected] Executive secretary Anastasia Knyazeva +7 921 977 43 00 [email protected] International contacts Vera Biron [email protected]

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gion. The Museum collection dates back to Highlights: History of Religion Museum the 6th Millennium BC. The Museum is one of • collection of “Archaic and traditional be- the leading scientific, research and method- liefs (the peoples of Russia and neighbor- ology centers for religious studies in Russia ing countries, the indigenous population of America, Africa, Asia and Oceania)” Museum complex includes the permanent ex- • numismatic collection (5th – 6th cc. BC – hibition, which tells about the archaic beliefs, 19th cc) Religion of the Ancient World (Egypt, Greece, • archaeological Collection (6th c. BC – Rome), Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and the 13th c. AD) different branches of Christianity • archaeological excavations of a collection of Buddhist religious center of Kara Tepe Building (1860 by A. Kavos) situated in the (the period of the Kushan empire) 2nd – historic center of St. Petersburg 4th cc. BC

Collection: over 250 000 items Last years’ main projects: • Exhibition “Freemasonry: history, ritual, Main sections of collection: “The Archaic and symbolism”, 2008 Primitive Beliefs”, “Precious metals”, “Islam”, • Exhibition “The unity of the nations on the “Judaism”, “The Museum Archive”, “Ortho- banks of the Neva. Petersburg multination- doxy. Decorative-Applied Arts”, “Orthodoxy al” in “Moscow Manege”, 2008 Fine Arts”, “Religions of the Early Civiliza- • Exhibition “The World of the Bible”, 2009 tions”, “Religions of the Orient”, “Religions of the West”, rare books, drapery, philately, re- ICOM Committee ICMAH cordings and multimedia, photography

ounded as a part of the Academy of Sci- of religion, ethnographer and anthropologist ences of the USSR. Opened to the public Vladimir Bogoraz-Tan (1865–1936). One of Fon 15th November, 1932. The origins of the the world’s few museums and the only one State Museum of the History of Religion lie in of its kind in Russia. Its permanent exhibition the will of an outstanding Russian historian features the origin and development of Reli-

Federal State budget Institution of Culture “The State Museum of the History of Religion” 190000, Saint Petersburg, Pochtamptskaya str., 14 [email protected] www.gmir.ru/index Director Lubov Musienko +7 (812) 312 35 86

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1975 to mark the 30th anniversary of Vic- sev on the ground of his collections they History tory in the Great Patriotic War opened the first Russian private public Ru- • Alexander Blok museum located in the myantsev museum. Since the year 1938 house, where poet spent the last years of the building was conveyed to museum of St. Petersburg Museum his life (1912–1921). Opened in 1980 to mark the 100th anniversary of the poet’s Collection: 1 326 232 items birth • Sergey Kirov museum Opened in 1956. Main sections of collection: architectural S. M. Kirov lived here in 1926–1934 graphics, paintings, replicated graphics, • Petersburg Museum of Avant-garde (Ma- cards, rare books, hand-written documental tyushin’s House) located in the house fund , photographs, ceramics and glass, cos- belonged to the leading member of the tumes, textiles, numismatics, furniture, tech- Russian avant-garde M. V. Matyushin in nic, archeology 1912–1934. Since 1979 – branch of the State museum of the history of Leningrad. Highlights: Since 2006 – St. Petersburg Museum of • architectural graphics by Giacomo Qua- Avant-garde renghi • Schlisselburg fortress “Oreshek” is the • dress a\la Russe of Princes Maria Pav- unique historical landmark which situ- lovna ates in a source of the Neva. The first • collection of art nouveau style items wooden fortress was built in 1323 by knyaz (duke) of Novgorod Jury Danilov- Main research areas: ich, grandson of Alexander Nevsky. The • history of Saint Petersburg existing fortress is erected in the begin- • history of Russian and soviet architecture buildings and fortification constructions of the ning of the 16th century. Since the year pened in 1907 18th – the beginning of the 20th c. 1965 – branch of the State museum of the Last years’ main projects: O history of Leningrad • Exhibition “Siege diary”, Historical muse- Peter and Paul Fortress museum com- Branches: • Museum of Printing is located in a former um of Warsaw, 2009 plex – architectural monument of the 18th c. • Monument of the Heroic Defenders of Len- rental apartment house of the 20th c. • Intermuseum exhibition “Dreams of Rus- (founded on the 27th of May 1703) – includes ingrad was inaugurated on the 9th of May Since 1984 – museum “Lenin and sian Avant-garde”, Saitama, Okazaki, Ya- “Newspaper”Pravda”. Since 1991 – “The magata, 2010 Saint Petersburg’s State Budget Funded Culture Entity Museum of Printing of St. Petersburg” • Exhibition “Russian Style. Style of art and “Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg” living”, St. Petersburg, 2011 197046, Saint Petersburg, Peter and Paul fortress, 3 Rumyantsev Mansion www.spbmuseum.ru • In 1802 the Mansion was purchased by Count Nikolay Rumyantsev. In 1831 ac- САМОС, COSTUME, Director Alexander Kolyakin ICOM Committees cording the last will of Nikolay Rumyant- ICMAH +7 (812) 498 05 11 [email protected] Executive secretary Irina Karpenko +7 (812) 498 06 58 [email protected] International contacts Julia Demidenko, Deputy Director for science +7 (812) 498 05 42 [email protected]

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floor of 1909). The museum’s main building is • archeology Kunstkamera an outstanding example of the Baroque style • history of the 18th c. of Peter’s age. It is the oldest museum build- • Russian sciences ing in the world. Last years’ main projects: Collection: 1 115 183 items • “Tlingit: Alte Indianische Kunst Aus Alas- ka”. In January – May 2001 the exhibition Main sections of collection: ethnographic, was displayed at Rietberg Museum, Zu- archaeology, anthropology, illustrative collec- rich, Switzerland and at Menil Collection, tions, M. V. Lomonosov Museum collections Houston, USA • “The Arctic Civilisation”. In February – Au- Highlights: gust 2002 the exhibition was displayed at • natural-science collections of the Peter the Vapriikki Exhibition Center, Tampere, Fin- Great – Kunstkamera (collections of Albert land, and in October 2002 – March 2003 Seba, Frederik Ryusch and others) at Malmö Museum, Sweden • Great Gottorp globe • “Palast des Wissens. Die Kunst und Wun- • James Cook collection derkammer Zar Peters des Großen”. The • N. N. Miklukho-Maclay collection exhibition was designed in cooperation • I. G. Voznesenskii collection from “Russian with the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg America” (Alaska, California) Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences • Russian seafarers of the early 19th century Archives, and Dortmund Museum of Arts, uccessor of Russia’s first state public mu- the Great Museum of Anthropology and Eth- collections (I. F. Krusenstern, Yu. F. Lisyan- Germany. In 2003–2004 three rounds of seum (Kunstkamera) founded in 1714 by nography. Since 1991 – Peter the Great Mu- skii and others) exhibition were successfully implemented SPeter’s the Great. In 1836, when the Kunst- seum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kun- • collection of Nicholas II, obtained during in Dortmund and Gotha, Germany, and in kamera was divided into some independent stkamera) of Russian Academy of Sciences. his voyage to the Orient Tampere, Finland academic museums, the Ethnographical and • “Path Forward: The Cultural Unity of Anatomical museums were established. Since Located in the historical building of Kunstka- Main research areas: the Peoples of Eurasia”. 23.11.2010 – 1879 – the Museum of Anthropology and Eth- mera (1718–1727) plus the so-called “Mu- • cultural anthropology 14.03.2011 the exhibition was displayed nography, mostly Russian. Since 1903 – Peter seum wing” attached to it in 1887 (additional • social anthropology at National Folk Museum of Korea (Seoul) • physical anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences Peter the Great Museum • ethnography of the Peoples of the World ICOM Committees ICME, ICEE of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) 199034, St. Petersburg, 3, University Emb. [email protected] www.kunstkamera.ru Director Yuriy Chistov +7 (812) 328 07 12, ext. 101 [email protected] Executive secretary E. Mikhailova +7 (812) 323 08 12, ext. 103 [email protected] International contacts Ju. Kupina +7 (812) 328 08 12, ext. 109 +7 (812) 323 29 06 t/f [email protected]

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ounded in December 1943 when the mili- Main sections of collection: works of art, Memorial Museum tary Council of Leningrad Front adopted weapons, personal belongings, documents, Fthe decision to organize the exhibition “Heroic military engineering equipment, military flags, Defense of Leningrad”. Within a short period of military uniforms of Leningrad Defense time a great deal of work was done by artists architects, historians, many of whom were es- Highlights: and Siege pecially commissioned from the active sections • blockade diaries and memories of ordi- of the front. The exhibition was open on the 30th nary members of the battle for Leningrad of April 1944, and in January 1946 it was reor- and the siege ganized as the Museum of Leningrad Defense, • private amateur photos but closed in March 1953. In 1988 war and • drawings and paintings of artists of the labor veterans, survivors of the siege, writers, siege of Leningrad artists, journalists raised their voices for the defense of the devastated museum. The museum Main research areas: preservation and study was again open on in 1989 of the history of the Siege of Leningrad

Located in the building of the former Handi- Last years’ main projects: craft Museum (1901–1903 by P. Trifanov), • The Banner of Victory in St. Petersburg, entering into a complex of museum buildings 2003 of the so-called “Salt town” on banks of the • The Long Road to Peace, 2009 Fontanka River • Rescued Relics, 2010

Collection: about 25 000 items ICOM Committee ICEE

Saint Petersburg State Budget Cultural Organization “Memorial Museum of Leningrad Defense and Siege” 191186, Saint Petersburg, Solanoy lane, 9 Branch: Museum of the “Road of Life” [email protected] www.blokadamus.ru Director Anatoli Shishkin +7 (812) 579 30 21

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Military Medical Museum Founded in 1942 Occupies 16 buildings (1799–1936)

Exhibition halls located in the historical center of Saint Petersburg on the territory of the former Imperial Guard Semenovskiy regiment and Semenovskiy-Aleksandrovskiy military hospital (1799, arch. F. Demercov)

Total square: 5372 m2 • authentic documents of fascism crime Collection: over 440 000, archive fund – over against the humanity 60 000 000 items • 300 personal funds of prominent representatives of world and Russian medicine Main sections of collection: Art fund, written sources, medical equipment, appliances, Main research areas: uniforms, faleristics, personal funds, photo- • field of social and humane studies graph collection • natural and technical sciences • museology Highlights: • archiving • “Kniga glagolemaya prohladniy vertro- grad, izbrannaya ot mnogih mudretsov Last years’ main projects: o razlichnyh vrachevskih veshchah ko • “Medicine of Russia and Saint Petersburg” zdraviju chelovecheskomu pristojashchih” • “Anatomy theatre” • plan-engraving “Rivers of Illnesses”, ex- • “For 200 anniversary of N. I. Pirogov” ecuted by Vasiliy Malakhov for Alexander I • “A woman at war” • portrait of A. I. Vasiliev by V. L. Borovikovskiy • “Hitler and the Germans. People and • items connected with professional activity crime”, Intermuseum project organized of the great Russian surgeon N. I. Pirogov together with German History museum Military Medical Museum of Federal State State-financed • picture “Arrival of N. I. Pirogov to Moscow” (Berlin) Military Educational Institution of Higher Pofessional by I. E. Repin Education “Military Medical Academy named after • selection of appliances dated from 18th till ICOM Committee ICOMAM S. M. Kirov” of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian 20th cc. Federation 191180, Saint Petersburg, Lazaretny lane, 2 +7 (812) 315 72 87 www.milmed.spb.ru www.museum.ru/M170 [email protected] Director Anatoliy Budko Executive secretary Natalya Chigareva International contacts Andrei Smekalov +7 (812) 315 72 91

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possible to officially register the organization Museum under the name, Association “Free Culture”, bringing together the independent leaders of the contemporary art-center, Pushkinskaya of nonconformist art 10. In 1998, the Association established the Museum of Nonconformist Art, based on the collection of contemporary art gathered in the 1980-s and 1990-s by “unofficial” artists – nonconformist art of Leningrad – St. Peters- burg spanning the second half of the 20th c.

Total area: 4500 m2

Exhibition zone: 200 m2 (Big hall), 165 m2 (Small hall)

Museum wing: 345 m2

Collection: more than 3500 items

Main sections of collection: “Arefyevsky circle” (beginning of the 1950-s to 1990); Association of Experimental Exhibitions (AEE), “Gazanevs- kaya Culture”: Works from unofficial artists who took part in “apartment exhibitions” and exhibitions shown in the Palace of Culture, specifically I. I. Gaza and in the Palace of Culture “Nevsky” (middle of the 1970-s to the • Art-center “Pushkinskaya 10” as a contem- beginning of the 1980-s); Association of Ex- porary institution in the globalized world perimental Visual Arts (AEVA): works from art- • contemporary art ists-nonconformists, defending the legal right to engage in exhibition activities; Association Last years’ main projects: ocated in the former apartment house vacated house changed into a squat. 1989 – “Free Culture” (1990-s); Contemporary Art • Cross movement. Alexander Nevsky (1878–1879). In 1984 the tenants were re- underwent a complete renovation. After the and Russian saints in contemporary art. Lsettled. Perestroika had begun soon and the political reorganization of 1991, it became Highlights: (St. Petersburg – Veliky Novgorod – Petro- • “Arefyevsky circle” 1950–90-s (Arefyev zavodsk) 191040, Saint Petersbourg, Pushkinskaya str., 10 Aleksandr, Vasmi Rikhard, Gromov Valen- • Festival of unofficial art schools of Lenin- +7 (812) 764 48 52 tin, Shvarts Sholom, Shagin Vladimir) grad – St. Petersburg (Moscow – St. Pe- www.nonmuseum.ru tersburg) • Free Culture in the museums of Russia Director Evgeny Orlov Main research areas: • Gazanevskaya culture (Khanti-Manskiysk – Omsk – Novosibirsk – [email protected] • Nonconformism Barnaul – Krasnoyarsk – Khabarovsk – Executive secretary Mariya Varlamova • study of the museum’s collection: persons, Vladivostok) [email protected] groups, associations, and schools of con- International contacts Larisa Kucher temporary art ICFA [email protected] ICOM Committee

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countries; SOS – Save Our Soils; History of Transport in Russia pened on 5th of November, 1904 soil management (agriculture) phy, models, numismatics, philately, location O models of the rolling-stock Since 1879, an exceptional naturalist, V. V. Do- Most valuable collections: Fund of monoliths kuchaev was putting a considerable effort collected by the Pereselenskaya expedition Highlights: in organizing a center for popularization (10 items), Collection of the Altai region soils • model of the Cherepanovs steam locomo- of the soil science – a museum, first in the (20 items), Collection of Arctic and tundra tive world, seen as a focal point for divulging all soils (30 items), Collection of the State pro- • model of the locomotive “The Dexterous” kinds of knowledge concerning soils. From tected monoliths of the Leningrad region soils • model of the bridge over the Yenisei 1891 he was trying to organize an institution (70 items) specialized in soil and gained sympathy of Main research areas: history of the rise and the population for his project. The decision Highlights: the progress of the railway industry in Russia about establishing the museum was taken • relief map of the Poltava province, based in 1902 by the Free Economic Society, but on the hypsometric map of A. A. Tillo and Last years’ main projects: the opening took place after the V. V. Do- a soil map of V. V. Dokuchaev; maquette, • Participation in exhibition “The panorama kuchaev’s death 1900, engineers – executants: Krapivin of empires. The voyage to the East of and Petrov legatee cesarevich Nicolai Alexandrovich Located in the northern warehouse (1826– • soil relief globe; laboratory of The Perm in 1890–1891”, State historical-architectur- 1828, arch. I. F. Lukinin) – a part of a Strelka branch of All Union Geographic Society al, artistic and landscaping museum-park Exchange stock complex on the Vasilevsky of the Academy of Science of the Soviet “Tsaritsyno”, 2010–2011 Island Union, 1989–1992 • Participation in exhibition for 200 years of • “mikulinskaya” fossil soil (turfy – podsolic determination diplomatic attitude between Collection: 3500 items, 2500 of which – soil type) ; soil monolith, A. Velichko, T. Moro- Russia and USA, National Russia Museum monoliths zova, 1978 of A. S. Pushkin in Museum • primitive soil from the residual chalkstones ounded in 1813 by the Institute of corps • Participation in exhibition “Emperors voy- Main sections of collection: Soil – a particu- of a Staroladozhskaya fortress wall; soil of the engineers of the roads communica- ages”, Museum Benuas family, State mu- lar natural TELO (element, body, structure); monolith, L. Martov, 1978 Ftion in St. Petersburg. Opened to the public in seum-park “Peterhof”, 2009 Stages of the soil science and education; 1862. On the 25th of July in 1896 the Depart- • Participation in exhibition “The railway of The variety of soils in Russia and neighboring ICOM Committee NATHIST ment of the communication made the deci- Russia. Great way”, devoted to 170th an- sion of organization the museum of the ways niversary of the railway in Russia, State of communications Historical Museum The State Scientific Institution – Russian Agricultural Academy’s Central Museum of Soil Science named after Building was constructed in 1902 by the ICOM Committee CIMUSET V. V. Dokutchaev specially for the Mu- architect P. Kupinskiy Saint Petersburg, Birzhevy side – str., 6 seum of the Department of the way of com- Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture http://soil-museum.ru munications by the name of emperor Nicolas I “Central Museum of Railway Transport in Russia” Director Prof. B. F. Aparin 190068, St. Petersburg, Sadovaya Str., 50 +7 (812) 328 56 02 Collection: 66 220 [email protected] Executive secretary E. V. Pyatina +7 (812) 328 54 02 Main sections of collection: documents, fine Director Galina Zakrevskaya arts, drafts-albums, photo-albums, photogra- +7 (812) 457 80 05 International contacts E. Yu. Sukhatcheva

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• Exhibition “Arabesques” devoted to stablished in 1905 N. V. Gogol’s 200th anniversary, 2009 E • Exhibition “Treasures of the Golden Age Located in the federal monument of architecture, of Russian literature: from Pushkin to Tol- the former Petersburg Customs-house (1828) stoy / Trésors du siècle d’or russe, de Pouchkine à Tolstoï”, organized in collab- Collection: over 120 000 items oration with Martin Bodmer foundation, Geneva, 2009 Main sections of collection: paintings, draw- • Exhibition “Writer’s Path” devoted to 100th ings, sculpture, photos, documents, memo- anniversary of L. N. Tolstoy’s death, 2010 rial items, applied art • Exhibition “This World is Mine” devoted to M. A. Bulgakov’s 120th anniversary, orga- Highlights: nized in collaboration with Moscow Mikhail • A. F. Onegin’s collection Bulgakov Fund and M. A. Bulgakov State • collection of the Lermontov museum of Museum, Moscow, 2011 Nikolaev Cavalry school collection of Pe- tersburg Tolstoy museum ICOM Committee ICLM

Last years’ main projects: • Inter-museum exhibition project “Russian St. Petersburg, Makarov emb., 4 Single Combat. Duel in Russia”. Pushkin +7 (812) 328 05 02 State Museum, Moscow, 2007 [email protected] • Exhibition “Glory of the Russian Academy. www.pushkinskijdom.ru Portrait gallery of the Russian Academy Director Larissa Agamalian from Pushkin House collections” devoted [email protected] to 225th anniversary of the Russian Acad- Executive secretary Elena Kochneva emy of Science, 2008 [email protected]

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• collection of landscape photography of ROSPHOTO late 19th – early 20th cc. • collection of “Turkestan Album” photographs • album “Journey on Schooner Dmitry Don- skoy” • album of the First Pacific Ocean Squadron • collection of Dmitry Yermakov’s ethnographic photogrpahs • album of heliographs “Photographs of Earl Nostits” • collection “Photographs of Frescos of the Temple of the Transfiguration of Christ in the Pskov Spaso-Mirozhsky Monastery” • collection “Photographs of Besieged Len- ingrad by Boris Kudoyarov” • album of photographs with views and types of Mongolia “Mongolia. 1889” by Charushin • collection of photographs of views and types of the Middle East (Bonfis, N. M. Saba, N. D. Phot (Norden frers) • collection of photographs from the world ounded in 2002 by the Ministry for Culture third floors were built for the insurance tour of 1879–1880 of the Russian Federation company • collection of views of St. Petersburg and Last years’ main projects: F Moscow (1880–1900-s) • Annual international conference “Photo- Situated in the former building of Russia in- Collection: 7569 items graphy in Museum” since 2007 surance society (1905–1907, arch. V. V. Il- Main research areas: • Exhibition and educational program “Con- yashev). The facades reflect the purpose Highlights: • history of development, evaluation and at- temporary Nordic Photography” support- of the spaces. The first floor with its large • album of Japanese photographer Kusak- tribution of photographic collections in the ed by the Nordic Culture Fund, 2009 windows was intended for commercial abe Kimbei national archives of the Russian Federa- • “Hungarian Masters of Photography: establishments, whereas the second and • collection of photographs of William Carrick tion Brassai, Robert Kapa, Andre Kertesz, • chemical and technological research in the Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Martin Munkasci” field of preservation of photographs from the Hungarian Museum of Photogra- Federal State Budgetary Culture Institution • complex chemical and technological analy- phy, 2010 State Museum and Exhibition Center for sis and attribution of historical papers • “William Carrick: Images of Russian Life. Photography ROSPHOTO • methods of technical and technological Photographs of 1850–1870-s” from the expertise of photographs and documents Russian national collections, 2010 191186, Saint Petersburg, Bolshaya Morskaya str., 35 • methods of scientific and preventive digi- • “Images of Italy. 1841–1941” from the col- +7 (812) 314 12 14 talization of photographs lection of the Brothers Alinari Museum of www.rosphoto.org the History of Photography (Italy), 2011 General director Zakhar Kolovsky ROSPHOTO is the scientific and methodical [email protected] center of the National Program of Preserva- ICOM Committee ICOM-CC Executive secretary Maria Gourieva tion of Photographic Archives of the Russian [email protected] Federation

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Highlights: Main research areas: Russian Academy • project models of the 18th – 19th cc. build- • history of Russian Art and Russian Art ings of St. Petersburg (Smolny monastery, school St. Trinity Church of the Alexandro-Nevs- • history of the Russian Academy of Arts of Arts Museum kaya lavra, Stock Exchange, Academy of Arts, St. Isaac`s Cathedral) Last years’ main projects: • “Portrait of Fanni Persiani” by Karl Brullov • “Canon of beauty of Raphael. Epoch of • “Resurrection of Jairus`daughter“ by Vasyli Raphael and Russian Art School”, 2008 Polenov • “Self-portrait and Artists` Portrait. 18th – • “The girl with a bouquet” by Ilya Repin 21st cc.”, 2009 • “Watermelon seller” by E. V. Blagoveshen- • “Gallic Spirit on the Neva coast”, 2010 skaya • Participation in “Sacred Russia” exhibition, • drawing “Head of a girl. Study for the paint- Louvre, 2010 ing “Return of a drunker” by J.-B. Greuze • “The Socialists realisms: soviet painting in • watercolor “The interior with the flowers” 1920–1970”, Rome, 2011 by Marc Chagall • “Lomonosov and the Elizabethan time”, State Hermitage museum, 2011–2012

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stablished in 1758 after Russian Aca- Collection: 164 683 items demy of Arts was founded in 1757 E Main sections of collection: painting, drawing, Situated in the federal monument of architec- sculpture, engraving, architectural graphic, ture (1764–1788, arch. A. Kokorinov, J.-B. Val- architectural models and applied arts, pho- lin de la Mothe) special built for Academy tography – from Russia and Western Europe

Federal State Budget Scientific Organization “Scientific • Memorial house-museum of Pavel P. Chistyakov Research Museum of the Russian Academy (Pushkin, 23 Moscovskoe schosse) of Arts” [email protected] www.nimrah.ru Saint Petersburg, Universitetskaya embankement, 17 Director Ludmila Kondratenko Branch: +7 (812) 328 27 19 • Memorial museum-estate of Ilia E. Repin “Penates” [email protected] (Russian Federation, 189648, Saint Petersburg, Executive secretary Maria Bondareva Settlement Repino, 411 Primorskoye shosse) +7 (812) 323 64 96 Departments: [email protected] • Memorial museum-flat of Isaac Brodsky (Saint International contacts Veronica Irina Bogdan Petersburg, 3 Mikhaylovskaya Ploschad) +7 (812) 323 64 96 • Memorial museum-studio of Arkhip I. Kuindgi [email protected] (St. Petersburg, 1/10 Birjevoi pereulok) [email protected]

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• The Stroganov Palace (1753–1754 by • “Barge Haulers on the Volga” by Ilya Re- Russian Museum M. Zemtsov, rebuilt by F. B. Rastrelli) is one pin, 1870–1873 of the best examples of Russian Baroque • “Ceremonial Sitting of the State Council on architecture. It was named after barons, 7 May 1901” by Ilya Repin, 1903 later counts Stroganovs – collectors who • “The Ninth Wave” by Ivan Aivazovsky, were among the richest families in Russia 1850 • The Summer Garden (1704) – The Sum- • “The Head of a Peasant” by Kazemir Mal- mer Palace of Peter the Great (1714 by evich, 1928–1929 D. Trezini) is the first Emperor Summer resi- • “The Banquet of Kings” by Pavel Filonov, dence. Original interior of the 1st quarter of 1913 the 18th c. preserved in most of the rooms • “Virgin of Tenderness Evil Hearts” by Kuz- • Cabin of Peter the Great (1703) is the old- ma Petrov-Vodkin, 1914–1915 est building in St. Petersburg and the first Russian memorial museum-monument. Main research areas: Entitled the Original Palace of Peter the • Russian art from the 11th to the beginning Great or Red Chambers of 21st cc. • Russian Art in the Context of World Art Pro- Collection: over 400 000 items cess

Main sections of collection: Old Russian Art of Last years’ main projects: the 11th – 17th cc.; 18th – early 21st cc. Russian • Annual International Festival of Landscape Art (Painting, Drawing, Watercolours, Graphic Design “The Imperial Gardens of Russia” stablished in 1895 by a decree of the Em- former Exhibition Pavilion of the Academy Art, Sculpture, Decorative and Applied Art, in The Mikhailovsky Garden, since 2008 peror Nicholas II of Fine Arts Numismatics, Folk Art, Modern Art); collec- • “First Museum Photobiennale”, 2009 E • The Marble Palace (1768–1785 by A. Rin- tion of Jacob and Joseph Rzhevsky; Ludwig • “Saints of the Russian Land”, 2010 Buildings, branches: aldi) is the most significant monument of Museum in the Russian Museum • “Favoured by Clio. Heroes and Villains in • The main building: The Mikhailovsky Pal- the Russian Classicism in St. Petersburg Russian History”, 2010 ace (1819–1825 by K. Rossi) – the mas- • St Michael’s Castle (1797–1801 by V. Bren- Highlights: • Inter-museum exhibition “Holy Russia”, 2011 terpiece ensemble of Russian Neoclas- na) is the unique palace of Romantic Clas- • “Archangel Gabriel (Angel with the Golden • “Konstantin Korovin” exhibition, 2011 sical architecture – with the Benois Wing sicism style in Russia that was created with Hair)”, Novgorod, about 12th c. (1914–1919 by L. Benua, S. Ovsyannikov), the participation of the Emperor Pavel I • “The Last Day of Pompeii” by Karl Brullov, ICOM Committees ICFA, DEMHIST, ICMS, 1833 ICEE, ICOFOM Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture “The State Russian Museum” 191186, St. Petersburg, 4 Inzhenernaya Str. www.rusmuseum.ru Director Vladimir Gusev +7 (812) 595 42 40 [email protected] Executive secretary Alena Antipova +7 (812) 315 64 36 [email protected] International contacts Marina Panteleymon +7 (812) 347 87 35 [email protected]

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a medium between people and science that Russian Museum comprehend their everyday life as an object to study. People give ethnology the matter of its studies – artifacts, music, folklore – and of ethnography then find it in the space of ethnomuseums whose task is not to mummify their culture but to help them in identifying and under- standing themselves

Building (1902–1913 by V. Svinyin) is an architectural monument and was built in specifically to demonstrate the ethnographic collections. The building of the museum has one of the most beautiful exhibition halls of St. Petersburg – the Marble Hall (Memorial Hall of the Emperor Alexander III)

Collection: about 500 000

Main sections of collection: collection for culture and ethnography of the Russian people, Belarusians, Ukrainians and Moldavians, Ashkenazi Jews, peoples of the North-West Russia and Baltic countries, peoples of the • methodical training and the creation of Volga and Ural regions, peoples of the Cau- ethnographic exhibits and exhibitions casus and Crimea, Central Asia, Siberia and • organization of education and educational the Far East, peoples of Central and South- work with visitors ern Europe, Ainu culture, Japanese, Chinese, stablished in 1895 when Edict hen the subjects: hundreds of peoples and tribes Koreans, Mongols, collection of photographs, Has the status of research institutions nation- Russian Emperor Nicholas II issued settling on Russian land. Collections books, illustrative fund, manuscripts wide, and the center of ethnographic museol- Ethe special edict. This outstanding project include objects of ethnic culture of more than ogy appeared as a demonstration of the might 150 peoples of Russia and its neighbours. Highlights: of Russian state and of the loyality of it Museum has been created to function like original drawings illustrating the work of the fa- Last years’ main projects: mous Russian ethnographer, naturalist and ex- • “Parade of Nations” exhibition, Beijing, plorer of German origin academician Johann 2006 Gottlieb Georgi “Description of the Russian • “The Serbian collections in the collection The Russian Museum of Ethnography state living people, usages, clothing, housing, of REM” exhibition, Belgrade 191011, Saint Petersburg, Ulitsa Inzhenernaya, 4/1 jewelry fun, faith and other attractions” • “Portrait of the Empire – the life of pre-rev- [email protected] olutionary Russia” photo exhibition, in con- www.ethnomuseum.ru Main research areas: junction with the Center for Art and Media Director Vladimir Grusman • developing and publishing guidance on Karlsruhe, Germany +7 (812) 571 86 22 various aspects of ethnography collec- • “Petersburg and Finnish science: contacts Executive secretary Lidia Zgun tions practice and impulses” exhibition +7 (812) 570 53 53 • seminars and training courses, practical assistance to museum workers ICOM Committee ICME

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unique historical complex, comprising St. Isaac’s Cathedral of four cathedrals and a vestry – objects Aof cultural heritage of federal significance: • St. Sampson’s Cathedral (1728–1740, unknown arch.) • St. Isaac’s Cathedral (1818–1858, arch. A. Montferrand) • The Smolny Cathedral of the Resurrec- tion (the foundation was laid in 1748, arch. F. B. Rastrelli, the construction was completed in 1835, arch. V. P. Stasov) • The Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Savior on the Spilled Blood) with a vestry (1883–1904, arch. A. A. Parland)

On April 12, 1931 the State Antireligious Museum was opened in St. Isaac’s Cathedral

In 1937, the Cathedral acquired the status of an architectural monument, with a historical and arts focus. In January 1963 the Museum St. Isaac’s Cathedral became a branch of the State Museum of the History of Leningrad. In 1969 museum-monument “St. Isaac’s Cathedral” became an autonomous museum institution. Two more cathedrals became part of the Museum: the Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Savior on the Spilled Blood) in 1971 and St. Sampson’s Main research areas: Cathedral in 1984. In 2004 the State Museum • history of construction and artistic décor of “St. Isaac’s Cathedral” expanded to include the the Museum’s cathedrals Concert and Exhibition Hall Smolny Cathedral • restoration works • museum’s publications and exhibition Collection: over 30 000 items projects

Main sections of collection: unique artistic dec- Last years’ main projects: orative elements of the interiors of its church- • Exhibition “St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Models es-monuments: monumental painting, sculp- of the epoch” for 150th anniversary of St. Petersburg State Museum-monument ture, mosaics and stonework; works of visual, St. Isaac’s Cathedral, 2008 “St. Isaac’s Cathedral” decorative and applied arts, numismatics, rare • Joint Russian and French exhibition St. Petersburg, Directorate – Nevsky prospect, 29-31, А books and documents of the 17th – beginning “Auguste Ricard de Motferrand (Paris, +7 (812) 315 43 61, +7 (812) 312 28 11 f of the 21st cc.; photograph library and a scien- 1786 – St. Petersburg, 1858). French [email protected] tific-technical archive, containing documents architect in St. Petersburg” (Clermont- www.cathedral.ru describing maintenance and restoration works Ferrand, France) Director Nikolay Burov held on the Museum’s objects, documents de- Executive secretary Maria Morozova voted to the history of the Museum ICOM Committees ICAMT, CAMOC

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Collection: about 3 000 000 items Last years’ main projects: State Hermitage • Reconstruction of the Main Staff Main sections of collection: primitive culture, • “Hermitage 20/21” to collect, display, art and culture of the ancient world, the West learn the art of 20th – 21st cc, a collection European art, weapons and defensive weap- of works that will become history tomorrow ons, culture and art of the east, Russian cul- • Restoration and archival center of the ture, numismatics, gallery jewelry, china State Hermitage Museum “Old Village” • Johannes Vermeer. “Love Letter”. From the Highlights: collection of Reyksmuzeya (Amsterdam), • Madonna Litta, Leonardo da Vinci 2011 • St. Sebastian, Titian • Annie Leibovitz. The life of the photogra- • Madonna and Child (Madonna Conesta- pher. 1990–2005, 2011 bile), Raphael • Henry Moore at the Hermitage. Sculpture • Danae, Titian and drawings, 2011 • Maecenas Presenting the Liberal Arts to • Prado, the Hermitage, 2011 Emperor Augustus, Tiepolo • Female Figurine, 23,000–21,000 BC ICOM Committees ICFA, INTERCOM, • Statue of Amenemhat III, 19th c. BC ICMS, ICOFOM, CECA, ICOM-CC, ICMAH, • Black-Figure Dinos with Ships ICOMAM • Amorous Couple “Maithuna”, 10th – 13th cc.

ne of the oldest and largest museums in 1764, because the building itself also is the world. The collection occupies more a part of museum collection. And also in 1764 Othan 350 halls in 5 different buildings includ- Empress Catherine II purchases Johann Er- ing the Winter Palace, the former residence of nest Gotzkowski’s collection, the first collec- the Russian tsars. tion of the Museum. Collections, exhibitions, museum departments and services located The Winter Palace was constructed in 1752– in 10 buildings, 7 of which are monuments of 1764. So Museum starts its history from the Russian architecture of the 18th and 19th cc.

Federal State Institution of Culture “The State Hermitage” • Center for “The Hermitage – Amsterdam”, Nether- 190000, Saint Petersburg, Dvorcovaya sq., 2 lands • “The Hermitage-Italy” at Ferrara, Italy Branches: www.hermitagemuseum.org • Winter Palace of Peter I • Menshikov Palace Director Mikhail Piotrovsky • Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory +7 (812) 710 96 04 • General Staff [email protected] • Restoration and archival center of “Old Village” Executive secretary • Center “Hermitage-Vyborg” +7 (812) 710 96 10 • Exhibition center “Hermitage-Kazan” [email protected]

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Main sections of collection: musical instru- Main research areas: Theatre and Music Museum ments in Sheremetev Palace; painting, graph- • organology of 11th – 21st cc. ics, sculpture and applied art; manuscripts • history of opera, ballet, Russian theatre of and documents; memorabilia (theatrical cos- 18th – 21st cc. tumes and objects); photography and nega- • guest tours to St. Petersburg of foreign tives, playbills and programmes; records’ theatrical and musical troupes in 18th – archive 21st cc.

Highlights: Last years’ main projects: • musical instruments, created by famous • “Scenic world”, Tokio, 2007 West European and Russian masters of • “Returning to Russia. Lobanov-Rostovsky 16th – 20th cc.; memorial musical instru- Collection” with International Foundation ments of Russian composers of 19th – 20th “Konstantinovsky”, 2008 cc.; collections that belonged to the Ro- • “View of the Dance: Sergei Diaghilev and manov’s Imperial Family; unique Russian Ballets Russes”, Monaco, 2009 Horn Orchestra of the 18th c. • “Rudolf Noureyev. Threads of Time” with • collection of ballet shoes from Maria Talioni Center National du Costume de Scène, to Natalia Makarova 2010 • scenography pieces by Ilia Repin, Sergei • Inter-museum project “Russian Winter” with Makovsky, Mikhail Vrubel, artists of “Mir State Hermitage, State Russian Museum, Iskusstva” Russian Museum of Ethnography, State • photographs of Imperial Theatres’ Studio Museum Reserve “Peterhof”, State Museum and Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes Reserve “Tsarskoe Selo”, Rome, 2011 Troupe • “Destiny of Russian Opera”, Milan, 2011 • recordings of voices of Leo Tolstoy, Sergei n 1918 in the former building of Direc- • The F. Chaliapin Museum in his for- Esenin, Alexander Blok, Maria Ermolova, ICOM Committees DEMHIST, ICEE, INTER- tion of Imperial Theatres (1833 by Karl mer apartment (1901). 2b, Graftio str., G. Balanchin, G. Tovstonogov etc. COM, CIMCIM IRossi) the first theatrical museum of Petro- St. Petersburg grad was opened. Statute about the Mu- • The Samoilov Family Museum (1830). 8, seum was affirmed by Minister of Educa- Stremyannaya str., St. Petersburg tion A. Lunacharsky on 23 February 1920 • The N. Rimsky-Korsakov Museum in his former apartment (1874). 28, Zagorodny Branches: Prospekt, St. Petersburg • Sheremetev Palace (1750). 34, Fontanka emb., St. Petersburg Collection: 479 487

St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music 191023, St. Petersburg, 2 A, Zodchego Rossi str. www.theatremuseum.ru Director Natalia Metelitsa +7 (812) 310 10 29 [email protected] Executive secretary Alexandra Shtarkman +7 (812) 314 53 45 [email protected]

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Consist of 11 federal subjects

Population 13 500 000

Total area 1 677 900 km2

Time zone MSK (UTC+04:00), USZ1 (UTC+03:00)

pened to the public on 5th of May, 2009. peninsula; the reference with a radioactive “LENIN” was built on the Admiralty Ship- waste; the international cooperation in the Oyards in St. Petersburg (former Leningrad), field of atomic engineering etc. the building was started 08.24.1956, the ice- • Nuclear industry information center: an breaker was put into operation 12.03.1959. educational multimedia complex, the pri- World’s first nuclear-powered surface vessel mary goal – popularization of knowledge with the extended average superstructure of atom and granting to visitors of trustwor- and two masts; in a fodder part the runway thy information about work of the enterpris- platform for helicopters of ice investigation is es of nuclear branch; it is used for dem- placed; the length of the icebreaker is 134 m, onstration of educational 3D-films-quizes, the width – 26.7 m, the height – 46 m carrying out of videoconferences, lectures and seminars Collection: about 10 000 ICOM Committee CECA Main research areas: • the history of development of Northern sea Arctic Expo Center «Nuclear Icebreaker “LENIN”» route FSUE “Atomflot” • Arctic region 183038, Murmansk, 25, Portovy proezd • history of icebreaking and nuclear ice- [email protected] breaking fleet of Russia www.rosatomflot.ru

Last years’ main projects: Director Alexander Timofeev • Permanent exhibition «Kola Atom»: geog- +7 911 345 60 98 raphy of an arrangement of the enterprises Executive secretary Anna Kamakhina of nuclear branch in the region, history of +7 911 345 67 77 their occurrence and development on Kola International contacts Vladimir Blinov +7 911 345 60 53

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stablished on 20th of October 1960. Lo- • paintings collection made by the Empress Fine Arts Museum cated in the historical center of Petroza- Maria Fedorovna, wife of Aleksandr III Evodsk. It is old stone building (1786, Federal cultural heritage) Main research areas: of Karelian Republic • Icon Painting of Karelia, 15th – 19th cc. • Modern Karelian art, 20th c. • Russian Art, 1920–1990-s • cataloging of museum’s funds

Last years’ main projects: • “Holy image”. Icons from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Karelian republic. Finland, Salo Art Museum, 2007 • “Real Kalevala”. International exhibition, commemorating the 160th anniversary of the first full “Kalevela” edition. Karelian and Finnish paintings, 2009 • “Empress Maria Fedorovna – painter and collector” Russian and West European paintings of 19th c., 2009 • “KAREL-FEST”. Exhibition of Finnish and Karelian contemporary art. From private collections. Saint Petersburg, Museum of nonconformist art, 2009 • Project “Multitowel or Kaspaikka”. Cre- Collection: 14 476 ation of modern educational interactive programme about the Karelian Folk Art for Main sections of collection: Icon Painting children, 2010 of Karelia, 15th – 19th cc., Karelian Folk Art, Modern Karelian art, 20th c., Russian Art, ICOM Committee ICFA 18th – 20th cc., Russian Art, 1920–1990-s, West European Art Budget Organization The Museum of Fine Arts of Karelian Republic Highlights: 185035, Petrozavodsk, Karl Marks avenue, 8 • Icon Painting of Karelia, 15th-19th cc.: The http://artmuseum.karelia.ru Prophet Elijah (early 15th c.), The Apostles Director Natalia Vavilova Peter and Paul (second half of 15th c.), The +7 (8142) 78 25 78 Deesis (early 16th c.), The Miracle of St. [email protected] George and the dragon (16th c.), The Fiery Executive secretary Irina Kuspak Ascent of the Prophet Elijah with scenes +7 (8142) 76 45 19 from his life (1647 by Ignatiy Panteleev) [email protected] • Russian Art, 18th – 20th cc.: F. Rokotov, International contacts Natalia Kozlovskaya I. Repin, I. Aivazovskiy, A Bogolubov, +7 (8142) 78 40 03 I. Kramskoy, V. Polenov, I. Braz, I. Sishkin, [email protected] A. Benoit and others

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Includes: • Collection of artworks from the Far East Gatchina Palace • Gatchina Palace (1766–1781 by Antonio dating from 16th – early 20th cc. Rinaldi; reconstruction 1792–1798 by Vin- • Tapestries displayed in the Upper Throne cenzo Brenna; reconstruction 1845–1856 Room and the Crimson Drawing Room. and Estate Museum by Roman Kuzmin) The tapestries were given to the Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich and the Grand The Main Building is a part of the museum; the Duchess Maria Feodorovna by the French Arsenal Wing is partially used as a museum, king Louis XVI during the couple’s tour of partially for administrative purposes and par- Europe in 1782. tially for reserve exhibits and partially for sup- • Icon “The Presentation of the Mother of port purposes. The Kitchen Wing has support- God in the Temple” carved in cypress ive and operative uses. The Palace Chapel is wood in 1889. Presented to the Russian still used tor its initial purpose. The palace is Emperor Alexander III by the Russian undergoing restoration and renovation now hermitage of the Prophet Elijah on Mount Athos in 1893 to mark the 10th corona- • Priory Palace (1797–1799 by Nikolay L’vov) tion. The icon was originally stored in the • The Venus Pavilion on the Island of Love chapel of the Gatchina Palace and was (1792–1793 by Vincenzo Brenna). One- later lost during the German occupation. storied wooden pavilion on the bank of the Rosokhrankultura signed an act on June White Lake 7, 2011 to transfer this rare icon to the • The Birch House, a park trick pavilion collection of the Gatchina State Palace- (1780 by Henri F. G. Viollier, recreated in Museum 1974 based on the design by A. A. Kedrin- sky). One-storied woodden pavilion Main research areas: • research in support of palace and park Collection: 14 305 items conservation • collection research pened to the public on May 19, 1918 on the nationalization of the Palace. Closed Main sections of collection: porcelain and after the decree by the Council of Com- in 1941. Reopened to the public on May 8, glass, textile and costume, paintings, metal Last years’ main projects: Omissars of the Petrograd working commune 1985 works and bronze, furniture, graphic arts, • Joint museum exhibition “The Second Re- precious metals, sculpture and stonework, vival: Gatchina and Peterhof in the Age of Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum armory, household items collection, watercol- Nicholas I”, exhibition halls of the Arsenal 188300, Leningrad Region, Gatchina, 1 Krasno- ors and drawings, design drawings, manu- Wing, 2011 armeysky prospect scripts, rare books, numismatics, documents • The Night of Music at Gatchina (gala-con- [email protected] sector (manuscripts, photographs, late 19th – cert to celebrate the 170th anniversary of www.gatchinapalace.ru/en/ first half 20th cc.) P. I. Tchaikovsky and a night tour program Director Vassili Pankratov in the Gatchina Palace), 2010 +7 (81371) 2 15 09 Highlights: • Joint museum exhibition “Discovery” in [email protected] • Collection of Armory made by the finest the Priory Palace (discovery and return to Executive secretary Svetlana Astakhovskaya craftsmen from Russia, Europe and Turkey the museums and archives the documents th th +7 (81371) 2 18 48 in 17 – 18 cc. During the World War II and artworks which seemed to have been [email protected] the collection was evacuated and suffered lost forever), 2007 International contacts Julia Nikolaenko some insignificant damage. Almost theen- +7 (81371) 2 01 13 tire collection has now returned to the ICOM Committees ICMAH, DEMHIST, [email protected] Gatchina palace. ICOMAM

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stablished in 1988 by the decision of Ka- Main research areas: Kaliningrad Art Gallery liningrad Department of Culture. The col- • contemporary original and printed graphic Election partially has been transferred from the • east Prussian art and cultural heritage Kaliningrad regional history and art museum. Department of museum pedagogics: muse- Total area of museum building (1988): um lessons, art studio; lecture hall 8482,7 m2 Last years’ main projects: Exposition area: 3100 m2 • Bienniale of graphics from the Baltic sea countries “Kaliningrad-Koenigsberg”, Collection: 12 000 items since 1991 • project “The Hermitage – to Kaliningrad” Main sections of collection: painting, graphic, from the State Hermitage collection sculpture and subjects of arts and crafts • Baltic photobienniale “Photomania” – to- (jewels). Basis of the collection – works of gether with the Kaliningrad union of pho- national and foreign artists of the second half tographs of 20th c. (from socialist realism to postmo- • Cooperation with Russian museum: dernism), works of art 17th – first half of 20th cc. An exhibition “Five centuries of Russian Highlights: art” from Russian museum collection, 2005 • collection of works of artists from the “New reality” studio under the direction of Virtual subsidiary of Russian museum E. Beljutin • East Prussian art. Sculpture by S. Kauer, The museum resource center of creative E. Schmidt-Kestner, graphic by G. Volf, development of children and teenagers with N. Doletsih, H. Nojmann various social and physical possibilities un- • collection of a contemporary graphic of der patronage of Russian museum and the Baltic region countries Union of museums of Russia, since 2011 • West European engraving (facsimile) by the largest masters of the 15th – 20th cc. ICOM Committee ICFA

Kaliningrad Art Gallery 236006, Kaliningrad, Moskovskyi prospekt, 60–62 www.artgallery-klgd.ru Director Galina Zabolotskaya +7 (4012) 46 71 79, 46 71 66 [email protected] Executive secretary Alla Zub +7 (4012) 46 71 66 International contacts Ksenya Gagua +7 (4012) 46 72 45 [email protected]

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ounded in 1871. It is one of the oldest Highlights: Karelian Museum museum institutions in Northwest Russia. • manuscripts and printed books Cyrillic FIn 2011 the Karelian State museum of re- font 16th – 20th cc. gional studies was renamed as the National • personal items, tools, photographs, docu- of Regional History Museum of the Republic of Karelia. The “na- ments, U.S. and Canadian Finns settlers who tional” status was attributed thanks to the came to Karelia to build socialism in the 1930-s contribution of the staff to the preservation • granite slabs with petroglyphes, ancient of the cultural heritage and the traditions of equipement of work and everyday life, the peoples of Russia living in Karelia. Now cult objects from the Oleneostrovsky burial branches of the museum are included into from the stone age the list of the 10 most famous and popular Karelian places if interest Last years’ main projects: • Successive reconstruction of the complex Located in the historic center of Petrozavodsk buildings, from 2000 in the buildings of architectural ensemble of • “Tervhen tulda vepsan male” – “Visiting the Round Square (18th c.; monument of cul- the Vepsians”, National Museum of the tural heritage of the Russian Federation) Republic of Karelia – a laureate of the “Museum and new educational programs” Collection: 200 000 items competition within the 8th grant contest “Changing museum in the changing world” Main sections of collection: ethnography, • International project of the museums from archeology, metal, fabrics, wood, the nature the Westerbrotten region (Sweden) and department, weaponry fund, precious metals, Republic of Karelia (Russia) for including photography fund, ancient-press books and the object of cultural heritage into the tour- manuscripts, mineral fund ist industry under the auspices of the international association “The Blue Road” Ethnic composition of collections: 65% Rus- sians, 30% Karelians, 5% other nations ICOM Committee CECA

Karelian State Museum of Regional History 185035, Karelia Republic, Petrozavodsk, Lenin sq., 1 Branches: • Museum “Marcial waters” • Sheltozersky Vepsian Ethnographic Museum. R. Lonin kgkm.karelia.ru Director Goldenberg Mikhail +7 (8142) 78 02 40 [email protected]

168 ICOM Northwestern region Northwestern region Kirillo-Belozerski archeology and decorative and applied arts Highlights: • iconostasis of the 14th – 19th cc. The real museum-reserve treasury is the iconostasis of the Assump- tion Cathedral of the Kirillo-Belozerski monastery. It is the largest complex of the icons of 1497 which is well preserved till our days. This iconostasis is the best one in Russia on the state of preservation • Frescoes of Dionisii in the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Ferapontov monastery. Area of the painting – 600 m2. It is documental confirmed that the frescoes have never been renewed

Main research areas: cataloging of museum collections

Last years’ main projects: place (not far from the Ferapontov monastery) • Regional exhibition “Saint Nil Sorskii and also belong to the Museum a hermitage founded by him” (to the 500th anniversary of memory of the Saint), 2008 77 architectural monuments of federal heri- • “Sacred Russia: from old times to Peter tage list. Most significant: the Great”. Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, • Assumption Cathedral, 1497 2010–2011 stablished in 1924. In 2000 the ensemble Situated in the architectural ensembles of the • Church of Presentation of the Virgin to the • Icons of Tsars isographs from collection of of the Ferapontov monastery with the Kirillo-Belozerski and Ferapontov monaster- Temple with the Refectory Chamber, 1519 the museum-reserve “The Moscow Krem- EFrescoes of Dionisii in the Cathedral of the ies (14th c.). A wooden monument of the end • Holy Gate with the Church of Saint John lin”, 2012 Nativity of the Virgin was included by the of the 19th c. in a town Kirillov and a wooden Climacus, 16th c. • “Iconostasis of the Assomption Cathedral UNESCO in the World Heritage List Church of Elijah the Prophet (1755) in Tsypino • Transfiguration Church, 16th c. of the Kirillo-Belozerski monastery”. The • Church of Saint John the Baptist, 16th c. museum-reserve “The Moscow Kremlin”, • Church of Archangel Gabriel, 16th c. 2012 Federal State Institution of Culture “Kirillo-Belozerski • Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin, 1490 Historical Architectural and Art Museum-reserve” in the Ferapontov monastery ICOM Committee INTERCOM 161100, Vologda region, Kirillov, Kirillo-Belozerski • Church of the Placing of the Robe, 1485 – museum-reserve the most ancient construction of the North, +7 (81757) 3 17 35 it is being preserved on the territory of the Branch: “Museum of Frescoes of Dionisii” New Town in the Kirillo-Belozerski monas- [email protected] tery since 1958 www.kirmuseum.ru Director Mikhail Sharomazov Collection: 65 351 [email protected] Executive secretary Svetlana Smirnova Main sections of collection: Old Russian [email protected] painting, pictorial embroidery, manuscripts,

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cance was declared as a state reserve. In wooden architecture of Karelia 1940–70-s; Kizhi Open Air Museum 1951 the first monument (the house of farmer Cyrillic printing of 17th – 20th cc., manuscript books, Oshevnev) was moved to the island. The fu- books of Civil printing of 18th – 20th cc., manu- ture architectural and ethnographic exposi- scripts, documents, postcards, booklets etc. tion of the museum started to form. From 1961 to 1965 the Kizhi museum had existed Highlights: in the structure of the Karelian Regional State • ceiling icons (“the heavens”) of 17th – Museum. The Kizhi museum has existed as 19th cc. from the churches of Obonezhie an independent institution since 1966. In • copper mold collection (icons, folding 1990 the Kizhi architectural ensemble was icons and crosses) included into the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List of UNESCO. In 1993 the Kizhi Main research areas: museum was listed in the State Code of Most • architectural heritage of the Kizhi museum Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the • traditional culture of the peoples of Karelia peoples of the Russian Federation • Kizhi historical and cultural area • folklore heritage of the Russians of Karelia Collection: 83 architectural monuments (69 – • archaeological heritage of the southern on Kizhi Island, 8 – in its suburbs, 6 in the city Zaonezhie of Petrozavodsk). Fund collections – 48 777 items Last years’ main projects: • «“The Heavens” of Zaonezhie». The exhibi- Monuments of architecture: tion of icons from the collection of the Kizhi • Kizhi architectural ensemble (the Kizhi museum, Petrozavodsk, 2008; St. Peters- stablished in 1920, on the basis of a safe obtained the official status of the monument Pogost) includes: the 22-domed wooden burg, 2010; Montepulciano, Italy, 2011 conduct issued by the Department of of history and culture. In 1945 the territory Church of the Transfiguration (1714), the • “Karelia. Image in Time” On the 90th anni- EMuseums and Monument Protection of Com- of the Kizhi architectural ensemble that had 10-domed wooden Church of the Inter- versary of the Republic of Karelia. The ex- missariat of Public Education, by which Kizhi historical and artistic value of global signifi- cession (1694(?)–1764), the wooden bell hibition of photographs (60 works) made tower (1863, reconstructed in 1874), and by the Kizhi museum photographer Oleg The Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture “The the timbered fence set on a rock-rubble Semenenko. Petrozavodsk, 2009; Helsinki, Kizhi State Open Air Museum of History, Architecture foundation (1800), the timberwork was re- 2010; Minsk, Warsaw, 2010–2011 and Ethnography” constructed in 1959 • The cycle of exhibitions devoted to the old 185000, Russia, Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, • Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus from city of Petrozavodsk 19th – 20th cc. 2009, Kirov sq., 10 a the Murom-Dormition Monastery (14th – 2011–2012 +7 (8142) 76 70 91, +7 (8142) 78 35 43 t/f 16th cc.). It is one of the oldest surviving • A series of ethnographic exhibitions on the Kizhi island: +7 (8142) 53 57 22, +7 (8142) 76 70 91 f wooden churches in the Russian North material culture of the Olonets province of [email protected] • 10 chapels (17th – 19th cc.), 2 worship the late 19th – early 20th cc. The material is [email protected] crosses (18th – 19th cc.), over two dozen from the collections of the Kizhi museum http://kizhi.karelia.ru farmer houses (19th c. – 1920-s), and and the partners, 2009–2010, 2011 a large number of household structures: • The cycle of children’s interactive exhib- Director Elvi Averyanova mills, barns, threshing barns, saunas its. The material is from the collections of [email protected] the Kizhi museum, the Children’s Museum Executive secretary Natalia Melnikova Main sections of collection: ethnography, ar- Center and the partners, 2009–2012 [email protected] cheology, decorative and applied arts; paint- International contacts Olga Titova, Deputy Director ing, drawing and sculpture; icons of 16th – ICOM Committees AVICOM, ICAMT, CECA. for development and exhibition activities 19th cc.; materials of monuments of the folk DEMHIST [email protected]

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ounded in 1991 by initiative of Kronshtadt Kronshtadt History Museum historians and Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Fadministration of Kronshtadt district. Located in the building of town water pipe system (1836–1839, heritage site of Russian Federa- tion). Reconstruction project was developed during Kronshtadt’s preparation for its 300th anniversary in 2004 (finished in 2006). The facades of the building were reconstructed; interior rooms – fully rearranged. Instead of one high machine hall there are six floors now Main research areas: in the tower. The unique thing is granite pool • local history (houses and their owners, basin (reservoir) to which the water from the civil architecture, personalia, Kronshtadt Neva bay flew. Nowadays there is a big mod- at the Second World War period) el of the Neva bay aquatorium with the Kotlin • Baltic fleet history and Kronshtadt fortress Island and Kronshtadt in it. Ancient cellars role in the Russian border protection (for- with cast iron pipes were kept in the tower. tress and forts construction, biography of Other rooms of the building on the 2–5 floors war figures, war actions) are used for the museum collection storage • underwater archeology and offices for the workers • human factor influence on eco-system of the Kotlin Island Collection: 8579 Last years’ main projects: Main sections of collection: way of life, docu- • “150th Anniversary of Ship Repair Plant”, ments, machines, photo documents, numis- 2008 matics • “Life of Blockaded Town”, 2008 • “History of Shipwrecks”, 2009 Highlights: • “Ladies Things”, 2010 • collection of items raised from the Gulf of • “Letters from Front Line”, 2010 Finland bottom • “Kronshtadt from the Pilot’s View”, 2011 • Kronshtadt Ship Repair Plant documents and models collection ICOM Committees ICOMAM, CAMOC

St. Petersburg State Budget Establishment “History Kronshtadt Museum” Kronshtadt, Leningradskaya str. 2 +7 (812) 435 08 73 Branches: • Information Cultural Center • Memorial Radio Station named after A. Popov [email protected] www.visitkronshtadt.ru Director Evgeniy Grishko Executive secretary Olga Alekseeva International contacts Ekaterina Kazakova

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table purposes with educational ones, but the Collection: about 45 000 Mikhaylovskoe. experience was not a success. But neverthe- less the opening of the museum in Mikhailovs- Main sections of collection: Decorative and koye was of great importance as the first ex- Applied Art Collection; Collection of Old Rus- A. S. Pushkin museum-reserve perience in such sphere. In 1918 the building sian Painting, Numismatics, Arms and Pre- on the estates of Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye cious Metal Wares; Rare Books Collection; and Petrovskoye were destroyed by fire. Painting and Graphics Documents Collec- tion; Photo Collection On March 17, 1922 the Soviet government declared Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye and Highlights: Pushkin’s grave at the Svyatogorsk monas- • P. A. Osipovoy pad tery to be a state reserve. In 1995 the reserve • portrait of Pushkin Lyceum of Geytmana was renamed to the Mikhailovskoye Pushkin • “Pushkin in the coffin” autolithography State Memorial Museum-reserve of History, F. Bruni Literature and Natural Landscape and its grounds extended to 9,713 hectares by the Main research areas: addition of estates which had belonged to • restoration the poet’s friends, relatives and acquaintanc- • publishing program es, namely, Golubovo, Lysaya Gora, Voskre- senskoye and Deriglazovo, and the ancient ICOM Committees ICLM, DEMHIST sites of Vrev and Velye

n 1899 Mikhailovskoye was purchased by area was the opening in 1911 of a colony of the state from the poet’s son, Grigory Push- elderly writers and teachers in Mikhailovs- Ikin. Many members of the Academy of Scien- koye. A small museum was set up in the ce supported that idea. The first attempt to poet’s restored house (architect V. A. Shchu- immortalize Pushkin’s memory in the Pskov ko). That very colony ought to combine chari-

Federal State Budget Institution of Culture «State Memorial Historical-Literary and Natural-Landscape Museum-Reserve of A. S. Pushkin “Mikhailovskoye”» 181370, Pskov region, Pushkinskie gory district, village Mikhailovskoe [email protected] pushkin.ellink.ru Director Georgy Vasilevich +7 (81146) 2 19 50 International contacts Nadezda Vasilevich +7 (81146) 2 23 79

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Consists of: Novgorod State Museum • 138 buildings, 110 of which are considered to be the architectural monuments of the 12th – 19th cc. registered as most valuable objects of cultural heritage of the Russian Federation • 14 monuments with a wall painting (frescoes) of the 11th – 17th cc.

Total area of the museum: 67,7 hectares, including 56,4 hectors of the Central Museum in Novgorod

Collection: 815 578 items

Main sections of collection: paintings, graphic works, sculptures, documents and rare books, applied arts, numismatics, archeology, ethnography, arms and weapons, natural sciences’ items, objects of engineering

Highlights: • archeological objects that have been obtained from archeological excavations 865 is regarded as the date of its foun- List in 1992. The Decree of the Russian Presi- in Novgorod since 1932. Birch back scrolls • The Holy Russia, temporary exhibition dation since the Novgorod Governor has dent defined Novgorod State Museum as part of 11th – 14th cc. in Tretyakovskaya Gallery and Russian 1established the Museum of Antiquities as a of the most significant Russian Cultural Heri- • ancient Russian painting (icons and frescos) Museum structural division of the Committee of Sta- tage in 1998. Novgorod State Museum was • embroidery, applied arts and jewelry col- • From birch back to paper. Books in Old tistics this year. Novgorod monuments were established by the Ministry of Culture of Rus- lections Russia, Hermitage included into the UNESCO’s World Heritage sian Federation on January 5th, 2005 • handwritten books of the 11th – 17th cc. • Exhibition of K. Korovin, Russian Museum • heritage buildings of the Novgorod Museum Federal State Budget culture organization “Novgorod Director Nataliya Grigorieva and wall paintings of the 11th – 17th cc. ICOM Committees CAMOC, ICOM CC State United Museum-reserve” +7 (8162) 77 36 08 173007, Velikiy Novgorod, Kremlin 11 +7 921 731 78 00 Main research areas: [email protected] Branches: • archeological and ethnographic expedi- Executive secretary Tatyana Yarysh • Fyodor Dostoevsky House Museum in Staraya Russa tions in the Novgorod Region +7 (8162) 77 36 91 • Alexander Suvorov Estate Museum in Konchanskoye • concepts and programs of the museum +7 911 604 14 78 village (Novgorod Region) development [email protected] • Chudovo Branch (Novgorod Region) • restoration projects of architectural monu- International contacts Tatyana Tsarevskaya, Deputy • Staraya Russa Branch (Novgorod Region) ments and art objects Director for scientific studies • Borovichi Branch (Novgorod Region7) +7 (8162) 77 50 07 • Valday Branch (Novgorod Region) Last years’ main projects: +7 911 600 24 75 • The Song of Igor’s Campaign, permanent • Novgorod Archeological Center (Velikiy Novgorod) [email protected], [email protected] exhibition in Yaroslavl state historical, [email protected] architectural and arts museum www.novgorodmuseum.ru

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Highlights: Main research areas: Pavlovsk museum-reserve • 12 plates from the Saint Alexander Nevski • Compiling the catalogue of the museums’ Orden service – additions to the Gardner collections service (1779–1780), manufactured at the Imperial porcelain factory during the Alex- Last years’ main projects: ander II reign • “Fine types of the Russian empire”, State • Pavel I bust executed after the model of Museum Reserve “Pavlovsk”, 2006 Jean-Dominique Rochette, bisque, end of • “The Tsar family in portraits”, State Mu- the 18th c. seum reserve “Pavlovsk” in the Museum • Sculptures “The allegory of summer” and of Fine Arts of the Petrozavodsk city, 2006 “Amour with a cart”, gold covered bisque • “The Tsar family in portraits”, State Mu- with a coloured smalt base, manufactured seum reserve „Pavlovsk” in the Murmansk at the Imperial porcelain factory, Saint Pe- regional Fine Arts museum, 2006 tersburg, 1820-s • “Fine types of the Russian empire”, State • Agnolo Bronzino “Madonna with child and Museum Reserve “Pavlovsk” in the State young Saint John the Baptist” Saratov Fine Arts Museum named after • Servès porcelain toilette set after the A. N. Radishtchev, 2006–2007 model by L. S. Boizot, Duplessi, paited by • “Authority and friendship. Berlin and Saint Prevaux, Vincennes and others, emails by Petersburg 1800–1860” in Martin Gropious J. Cotto. Gift from the king Luois XVI and Bau in Berlin, 2008 Marie Antoinette • “Court festivities and royal ceremonies. • 40 works of ancient plastic art, marble Court costume in Europe. 1650–1800” in Greek and Roman statues, portrait Roman the National Versailles Museum (France), busts and bas-reliefs inbuilt in the walls of 2009 stablished in 1918, as a result of the nation- in 1822–1824. Then it was reconstructed again the halls • “Semi-precious treasures. Karl Fabergé alization of the tsar’s residence. Consists in 1950–2011 after the Second World War • Western European sculpture (A. Algardi, and Russian stone cutters” in the State Eof several inter-connected buildings: central, C. Albaccini, Calmeni brothers, Ch. – “Kremlin Museums” three storeyed pavilion and two lateral, mainly Depository items: 57 634 A. Bridan, H. Rauch) two-storeyed wings arranged in shape of a • Russian sculpture (M. I. Kozlovsky, I. P. Mat- ICOM Committees: DEMHIST, COSTUME, horse-shoe. Built in 1782–1799, was recon- Main sections of collection: paintings, sculp- ros – prominent sculptors of Russian clas- ICFA, ICDAD structed after a fire in 1803–1805 and enlarged ture, applied and decorative arts sicism)

Saint Petersburg budgetary institution of culture “State museum-reserve Pavlovsk” 196621, Saint Petersburg, Pavlovsk town, Sadovaya str., 20 http://www.pavlovskmuseum.ru [email protected] Director Vera Dementieva +7 (812) 452 21 55 +7 (812) 465 11 04 f

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jestic receptions, grand festivities, balls, con- Last years’ main projects: Peterhof Museum-reserve certs and masquerades • “Painting, style, fashion”, The State Rus- sian Museum, St. Petersburg, 2009 Peterhof ensemble includes the Upper and • Russian porcelain. Porcelain Prince insti- Lower Parks with 150 fountains spurting up- tution N. Yusupov. 1818–1831, “National wards powerful jets if water and foir resplen- Museum” Arkhangelsk, Moscow, 2009 dent cascades. Peterhof system of water • “Peter’s Assembly”, Central Exhibition Hall supply is unequalled as concerns the time “Manege”, St. Petersburg, 2009 of its operation. At the edge of the 16-metre • “The decisive battle. The 300th anniversary high natural terrace soars the Great Palace – of the Battle of Poltava”, State Historical the focal center of the ensemble designed by and Cultural Museum-Preserve “Moscow Rastrelli. Rich display of the palace acquaints Kremlin”, Moscow, 2009–2010 its visitors with magnificent state rooms and halls and the living apartments of the Rus- ICOM Committees ICOFOM, DEMHIST, sian Emperors. At the foot of the palace you ICAMT can see a pageant of the Great Cascade with silvery fountain jets and numerous golden State budget Institution of Culture “State museum- sculptures, including the famous Samson reserve Peterhof” Fountain. Water failing down the cascade runs to the Gulf of Finland 198516, Leningradsky region, Peterhof, Razvodnaja str., 2 Museum-reserve was founded in 1918 Branches: • Oranienbaum palace Collection: over 230 000 items • Peter the Great palace in Strelna [email protected] alace and park ensemble of Peterhof, Finland, 29 kilometres from St. Petersburg. In Main sections of collection: arts and crafts, pushkin.ellink.ru concieved and created at the will of Pe- the course of 200 years, it served as a sum- painting, numismatics, arms and products General director Elena Kalnickaya Pter the Great as a counterpart of Versailles, is mer residence of the Russian monarchs. In made of precious metals, rare book, docu- +7 (812) 450 74 25 situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of the 18th and 19th cc. it was a setting for ma- mentary fund, fund schedules

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Consist of: ated. Christ in the Tomb”. Rostov province, Russian North • Fine Arts Museum. Permanent exhibitions. first half of 14th c. Ancient Russian art and sculpture, folk • The sculpture “St. Nicholas of Mozhaisk in and applied art of the Russian North, bone kiot with folds”. Kargopol district, 16th c. Art Culture carving of Kholmogory, contemporary art • The icon “Saint Bishop John Chrysostom”. • Town Mansion (18th c). Exposition “The Novgorod, second half of 15th c. portrait in older interior” • Karl Brullov “Portrait of Count Musin-Push- • City Merchant House of Plotnikov-Shin- kin”. 1830-s garev. End of 18th – beginning of 19th cc. • Karl Lemoch “Varka”. 1893 Expositions “Russian Classic Art of 18th – • Olga Rozanova “Composition”. 1917 20th cc.”, “City Art Culture” • Museum of Artistic Development of the Main research areas: attribution and cata- Arctic, named after A. A. Borisov loguing of collections of the Museum Asso- • Museum of the artist and story-teller Ste- ciation pan Pisakhov. A merchant trade yard of A. Butorov (19th – beginning of 20th cc.) Last years’ main projects: • Cultural Museum Center “House – Manor • “Arkhangelsk artists. Destiny and creativ- named after A. A. Borisov”, Arkhangelsk ity”. Arkhangelsk (2004–2012) region, Krasnoborskiy district • Charitable project “Museum. Music. Chil- dren”. The Union of Russian museums, Collection: 33 428 the Fund of B. N. Yeltsin, Russian Center of Museum Pedagogic and Children Main sections of collection: Ancient Russian Creativities of the Russian Museum Art and sculpture, folk and applied art of the • “The Heritage of the Solovetsky monastery Russian North, bone carving of Kholmogo- in the museums of Arkhangelsk region”, ounded by the order on the Ministry of cul- fine arts museum in 1960” and by the order ry, Russian Classic Art 18th – beginning of Arkhangelsk (2007) ture of RSFSR #930 from 24.11.59 “About of regional management of culture #58 from 20th cc., contemporary art, city art culture • “Three centuries of Russian Art” (The Rus- Fthe organization in Arkhangelsk of a regional 25.08.1960. sian Museum), Arkhangelsk (2008) Highlights: The State Budget Cultural Institution of Arkhangelsk • The icon “The Holy Face Not By Hand Cre- ICOM Committee ICFA Region «The State Museum Association “Art Culture of the Russian North”» Arkhangelsk, 2, Lenin Square Branch: Cultural Museum Center “House – Manor named after A. A. Borisov” www.arhmuseum.ru Director Maya Mitkevich +7 (8182) 21 16 73 t/f [email protected] Executive secretary Galina Loktionova +7 (8182) 65 32 38 t/f [email protected] International contacts Valeria Zinovyeva +7 (8182) 20 94 82 [email protected]

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the 1920-s and a system of lakes, canals and • items relating to the history of the Solovki Solovki Museum-Reserve a dock Special Purpose Camp 1923 – 1937 (photos, documents, objects of everyday life of Situated in the Solovetsky Monastery, found- prisoners, etc.) ed by three monks from the Kirillo-Belozersk • items relating to the history of the Solovki and Valaam Monasteries in the 1430-s school boys, 1941–1945. (personal belongings and items of military life of boys, Solovki prison camp (later Solovki prison) – guns, ship equipment, parts of weapons, precursor of GULAG – located in the monas- etc.) tery in 1923–1939 • items relating to the history of the Solovki museum and restoration of monuments In 1990 Architectural ensemble and natural of Solovki islands (plans, measurements, complex of Solovki islands were included documents, photographs, negatives, etc.) into the World Cultural and Natural Heritage • items related to the modern history of So- List of UNESCO. In 1995 it was listed in the lovki (cartographic material, postcards State Code of Most Valuable Objects of Cul- and photographs, paintings, souvenirs, tural Heritage of the peoples of the Russian booklets, etc.) Federation Highlights: Collection: 84 000 items • Collection of architectural-building parts (16th – 19th c.) Main sections of collection: • Collection Pomeranian female costume • archaeological material, giving an idea of • Collection of icons Basil Chalkova (18th c.) the ancient history of the human explora- • Collection of archaeological objects from tion of the Solovki islands from mid-5th sites Solovki archipelago and other islands millennium BC – 15th c. of the White Sea (4th-1st century BC) • items relating to the history of the Solovki • Collection of articles and documents on stablished in 1967, Solovki Museum main- include: the fortified monastery of theth 15 – monastery (icons, temple furniture, docu- the history of the Solovki Special Purpose tains and manages 252 historic buildings 19th cc. with external household buildings ments, books, household items, handi- Camp (1923 – 1939) Eand the cultural landscapes of the 7 islands and churches, Neolithic labyrinths, one of the crafts, construction materials, etc.) 15th – of the Solovki Archipelago. The historic Northernmost open-air Botanic Gardens and 20th c. ICOM Committee: INTERCOM buildings under the museum’s management memorial sites, related to the prison camp of

The State Federal organization of culture “Solovki State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve” 164070, Arkhangel region, Solovecky village [email protected] www.solovky.ru/ Director Vladimir Shutov +7 (81835) 90 2 41

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Collection: about 40 000 Main research areas: Tsarskoye Selo • history of building and remodeling of the Main sections of collection: architectural Catherine and Alexander Palaces’ interiors graphic, porcelain and glass, painting, and park pavilions in connection with res- museum-reserve graphic and watercolour, furniture, met- toration and new museum display creation als, fabrics and men’s costume, arms, park • study of the collections and the compila- sculpture, interior sculpture, precious metal tion of scientific catalogues and stone, everyday-life, photonegatheque, postcards Last years’ main projects: • “Power and Friendship: Berlin – St. Peters- Highlights: burg, 1800–1860” at the Martin-Gropius- • Amber Room (recreated in 2003) with a Bau exhibition hall, Berlin, Germany, 2008 historical collection of 18th – 19th century • “The Tsar and the President: Alexander II amber objects and Abraham Lincoln” at the Oshkosh • Great Hall’s plafond (Russia, 1756, artists: Public Museum (Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Giuseppe Valieriani and Antonio Peresin- USA), the Kansas City Union Station otti) Museum (Kansas City, Missouri, USA), 2009 • West European Masters collection in the • “Moscow: Splendour of the Romanovs” at Picture Hall the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2009 • 18th c. Italian marble sculpture • “Raphael’s Death by Schiavoni” at the • Alexander II’s oriental arms International Center of Arts and Culture • furniture by Georges Jacob and Abraham “Palazzo del Te”, Mantova, Italy, 2010 and David Roentgen • “Russian Wintertide” at the Folk Art and • memorabilia of the crowned owners of the Traditions Museum, Rome, Italy, 2011 residence (palace library, personal ward- • “The Magnificence and Grandeur of Royal robes of the emperors from Alexander I to Houses in Europe” at the Grimaldi Forum, ounded by the Governmental Decree Situated in the Imperial summer residence in Nicholas II) Monaco, 2011 No.583 of July 13, 1918 on the National- the Baroque (Catherine Palace, 1717–1723, • Tsarskoye Selo owners’ lifetime portraits; Fization of the Property of the Former Imperial 1743–1751, 1752–1756) and Neoclassical views of the residence (oil paintings, wa- ICOM Committees DEMHIST, ICOM-CC, Family (Alexander Palace, 1792–1796) styles tercolours, graphics) ICMS, INTERCOM

The Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-reserve St. Petersburg, Pushkin, 7, Sadovaya str. [email protected] http://www.tzar.ru Director Olga V. Taratynova +7 (812) 466 66 69 [email protected] Executive secretary Alexandra V. Toeseva +7 (812) 465 20 18 [email protected] International contacts Olga F. Filimonova, Deputy director on International Contacts and Cultural Programs +7 (812) 466 58 31 [email protected]

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Includes: • Samples of amber with biological inclu- World ocean museum • Main building. Exposition “The World of sions from German collections the Ocean. A Touch…” is on display with • Unique pieces of decorative art made of its amazing aquariums, collections of amber made by Tsarskoye Selo Amber shells and corals, geological and palaeon- Workshop and Kaliningrad artists tological samples; the biggest skeleton of • Personal belongings of Soviet cosmo- cachalot in the world nauts, including Leonov • Embankment of the historical fleet: largest • Personal items and records academic scientific-research vessel in the world, the oceanographers Vitiaz; the only afloat museum-submarine in Russia, the B-413; the only vessel of Main research areas: history of the World space communication in the world with an Ocean and its nature exposition aboard, the Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev; and the only logger in the coun- Last years’ main projects: try, the SRT-129, are moored at the mu- • “Water element in the religions of the world” – seum quay inter-museum project with the Museum of the History of Religion (St. Petersburg), 2008 Collection: 45 996 items • “The sea and seafaring in the ancient art” – inter-museum project with the State Main sections of collection: numismatics, pal- Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), 2009 aeontology (samples of amber with biological • “People are solid water” – inter-museum inclusions), DPI products, ethnography, and project with the Russian Museum of Eth- other drawings of ships, maps, documents, nography (St. Petersburg), 2010 photographs, written documents, negatives, • “Sea affair” – inter-museum project with the philately, navigation and oceanographic in- State Literary Museum (Moscow), 2011 struments, equipment models • “Water and Stone” – inter-museum project with the Mineralogical Museum (Moscow), stablished by the decision of the RSFSR and functions as the republican center for Highlights: 2012 Government on April 12, 1990. Accord- research and scientific-methodical work • Furniture (sofa and chair) from the Cabinet Eing to the Regulations, the Museum of the in the field of history and ocean’s nature of Makarov ICOM Committee CIMUSET World ocean carries out scientific research study.

Federal State Institution of Culture “The museum of the World ocean” Branches: Ice-bracer “Krasin” in Saint Petersburg 236006, Kaliningrad region, Kaliningrad, Peter the Great emb., 1 [email protected] www.world-ocean.ru Director Svetlana Sivkova +7 (4012) 53 89 15 [email protected] International affairs Elena Ryabkova +7 (4012) 53 05 47 [email protected]

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“Central” is political and historical meaning – geographically, district is situated in the extreme west of Russia. It is historical center and most populated region of Russia Museum-reserve

Two objects from the UNESCO World Heritage List located within the borders of the region

Consists of 18 federal subjects

Population over 38 500 000

Total area 652,800 km2

Time zone MSK (UTC+04:00)

reated in 1923 – a centenary of the Last years’ main projects: A. N. Ostrovsky’s birth. Situated in differ- • “A. N. Ostrovsky’s Theatre” Cent houses of the estate (19th c.) • “Fairy world of Snow-Maiden” • “Traditions and way of life of our ancestors” Collection: 31 400 items ICOM Committee ICLM Main sections of collection: manuscripts- documents, rare book, fine arts, applied art, ethnography State memorial and natural museum-reserve of A. N. Ostrovsky “Schelykovo” Highlights: • personal belongings of A. N. Ostrovsky 157925, Kostroma area, Ostrovsky district, Schelykovo and his family [email protected] www.museumschelykovo.ru Main research areas: Director Galina Orlova • study of life and creative heritage of +7 (494) 382 32 53 A. N. Ostrovsky [email protected]

193 ICOM Central region Central region A. S. Griboedov Khorse Memorial Estate Highlights: • hand-written lists of a comedy «The Grief from mind» (1825–1865) • first edition of a comedy (1833) • collection of editions “The Grief from mind” • paintings and drawings, including A. S. Gri- boedov’s portraits

Main research areas: • life and work of A. S. Griboedov • the role of a Smolensk cultural nest in formation of A. S. Griboedov and P. S. Na- khimov • a manor of the Smolensk region reated in 1990 by the Governmental or- • the Patriotic war of 1812 der. Museum is situated in the building Cconstructed in the middle – end of 18th c. Last years’ main projects: • “A. S. Griboedov – the diplomat” Total area: 24 633 hectares • “Images of Hmelita” • “They were only forty one…” reated in 1995 and situated in a two-sto- Last years’ main projects: Collection: 10 000 items rey wooden house typical of urban devel- • “Alphabet”. Small architectural forms in ICOM Committee ICLM Copment of the 19th c. the urban environment, in conjunction with Main sections of collection: rare books, drawings the State Museum “Rostov Kremlin”, 2007 Collection: 500 items • “Reflections”. Land Art in cooperation with the National Park Kenozersky, 2009 Main sections of collection: antiques (uten- • “The Balkans – once and for all”, 2010–2011 The State historical and cultural and natural memorial sils), contemporary art • “The Russian Vertograd”, 2011–2012 estate A. S. Griboedov “Hmelita” 215107, Vjazemsky area of the Smolensk region, village ICOM Committee CIMAM Khmelita Departments: • P. S. Nakhimov’s museum Ltd. “Creative Association “Khorse” – House-Museum • Memorial complex “Bogoroditsky field” “Khorse” www.hmelita.narod.ru 152153, Yaroslavl region, Rostov, Podozerka str., 30 Director Victor Kulakov [email protected] +7 (48131) 3 06 29 www.khors.org [email protected] Director Mikhail Selyshchev Executive secretary Alla Filippova Executive secretary Natalia Selyshcheva +7 (48131) 3 06 29 International contacts Olena Nikolayeva

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of August year 1979 after 137-days flight K. E. Tsiolkovsky on the orbital station “Salyut-6”, etc.

Main research areas: cosmonautics history • life, work and scientific work of K. E. Tsi- olkovsky, A. L. Chizhevsky museum • history of Russian astronautics

Last years’ main projects: • Exhibition “He called all of us in space” devoted to the 50-anniversary of Yuri Gaga- rin’s space flight, Kaluga • Annual Gagarin’s festival devoted to the Day of cosmonautics, Yuri Gagarin and his flight into space. It begins on the9th of March, the birthday of the first cos- Collection: 70 916 items monaut, and continues during the whole March and April. During the festival a va- Main sections of collection: collection con- riety of programs in with original contents nected with the life and work of the founder is proposed: Gagarins’ lessons, educa- of theoretical cosmonautics K. E. Tsiolkovsky; tional game programs of competition type collection connected with the history of rock- (“Going Gagarin’s road”, “Welcome to the et-space engineering and cosmonautics; col- Mir’s space station...”, “Space craftsmen”, lection connected with the life and work of the “With an Alien around museum”, “With Ne- founder of heliobiology A. L. Chizhevsky znaika on the Moon”), video shop “There, beyond the clouds” etc. Highlights: • original items associated with the life and ICOM Committee CIMUSET ounded in December 1962 in order to gath- for his family in 1904. Became a museum de- work of K. E. Tsiolkovsky (models of diri- er, storage and popularize the achieve- partment in 1967. Museum-apartment located gibles, auditory tubes made by himself at Fments of the Russian cosmonautics. Main in the house, where he rented an apartment in the beginning of the 20th century; the me- building was constructed specially the for 1887–1888. It was opened in 1960-s by public morial library of scientist, etc.) museum in 1967. Memorial house-museum initiative and became a museum department in • aircraft logbook of Yuri Gagarin in which of Tsiolkovsky was opened in 1936, year after 1980-s. House-museum of scientist, poet and he made records on the 12th of April 1961 scientist’s deat. He bought this house (1822) artist A. L. Chizhevsky was open just in 2010 on the board of the spaceship “Vostok” during the flight Federal state governmental cultural organization [email protected] • search-and-rescue spacesuits of USSR “State museum of the history of cosmonautics http://gmik.ru pilot-cosmonauts Y. Malyshev and V. Lyak- named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky” Director Evgenii Kuzin hov, etc. 248600, Kaluga, St. Academic Korolyova, 2 +7 (4842) 57 43 33 • carrier-rocket “Vostok” • landing module of spaceship “Vostok-5” of Branches: [email protected] USSR pilot-cosmonaut V. Bykovsky • Memorial house-museum of K. E. Tsiolkovsky [email protected] • landing module of spaceship “Soyuz-34”, • Museum-apartment of K. E. Tsiolkovsky in Borovsk, Executive secretary Natalia Belova in which USSR pilot-cosmonauts V. Lyak- Kaluga region +7 (4842) 74 50 04 hov and V. Ryumin returned to Earth on 19th • House-museum of A. L. Chizhevsky [email protected]

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useum dedicated to the battle on the participants of the battle and found on the Kulikovo Field Kulikovo field (1380), which commenced battle place: articles of armory and harness, Mthe North-West Russia liberation from the Yoke orthodox relics of Russian soldiers died in the of the Golden Horde. Kulikovo field is a mil- battle itary-history object in aggregate with unique history-cultural and nature component Main research areas: • Research of the Kulikovo field and relics of Established in 1996, by the Governmental the Kulikovo battle” Decree # 1204 “About the creation and sup- • Search of the common graves of Russian ply of activity arrangements for the State Mu- soldiers on the Kulikovo field seum of Military History and Natural Preserve • Research of history – cultural heritage of “The Kulikovo Field” in Tula region within the the Kulikovo field (study of archeological scope of implementation of the state politics monuments of the Kulikovo field, study to preserve and develop the particular kind of military history heritage of the Kulikovo of sacred places – “Fields of Russian Mili- field, history-landscape study of the Ku- tary Glory” (Kulikovo Field – Borodino Field – likovo field) Prokhorovo Field) ICOM Committee ICOMAM Construction of the museum complex started in 2011 and will be completed in 2014

It’s planned to be an integral part of the Red Hill memorial harmonizing with the Kulikovo Field’s forest-steppe landscape. An important element of the complex is the viewing ground for acquaintance with the exposition under the open air “The Field of Kulikovo”. The project also stipulates the creation of the grounds for holding mass events, visitors’ zone (cafes, souvenir shops and etc), and ca- pacious conference hall equipped with mod- The State Museum of Military History and Natural ern multimedia equipement. The complex will Preserve “The Kulikovo Field” be equipped with modern infrastructure to en- sure the safety of visitors 300041, Tula, 47, Lenin avenue +7 (4872) 36 18 40 Total area of the complex: 7317,66 m2 [email protected] www.kulpole.ru Expositional possibilities: 915 m2 (expositional Director Vladimir Gritsenko hall), 360,6 m2 (exhibition hall) [email protected] Executive secretary Andrew Naumov Collection: 39 942 items of the main and [email protected] 11 914 items of scientific-subsidiary funds International contacts Irina Kirukhina [email protected] Highlights: Collection “ witnesses of the Ku- likovo battle” – authentic relics, belonged to

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useum was granted a house where it Main research areas: resides today just in 2006. It gave the • figurative art of the second half of the 20th c. Mopportunity to expand considerably its activ- • book illustration and graphics of 19th – ity; previously it mainly organized only itiner- 20th cc. ary expositions in Lipetsk and in the region Last years’ main projects: “Gubin’s House” in late classical style – • Painting and sculpture of the 17th – 19th cc. architectural monuments of the federal level from the State Hermitage (Saint Peters- from the beginning of 19th c. – a part on an burg) collections urban estate which is believed to belong to • Exposition “The beautiful completeness the Lipetsk branch of the Pushkin family from of fine arts…”, old graphics from 17th – the mother’s side 19th cc. from the State memorial and natural museum-reserve of I. S. Turgenev Collection: over 1000 items “Spasskoe-Lutovinovo” • Exposition “The world and the homeland” Main sections of collection: paintings, gra- of a well-known artist P. P. Ossovski phics, sculpture, decorative – applied art, • Works of the Paris period (1924–1942) children art from the collection of I. Kramski Museum of Fine Arts in Voronezh Highlights: • Exposition “The novel ‘War and Peace’ as ounded in 1909 by a physician, local his- household items, paintings, graphics • V. A. Favorski “Illustration. Parasha brings seen by the Russian artists” from the col- torian Trunov, who later became the first a cook. A. S. Pushkin. House in Kolomna” lection of State Leo Tolstoy museum (Mos- Fdirector of the museum. He was arrested in Highlights: • V. P. Slushnik “Artist’s portrait” cow) the 1930-s • Lipetsk ironworks time of Peter I (the • S. Golubkina “Sleeping girl” anchor, cannon balls, cannon) • G. M. Mashkin “Discussion” ICOM Committee ICEE Located in an office building built in 1963 • collection of paintings: I. I. Shishkin, I. K. Aivazovsky, portraits of the merchants Collection: over 230 000 items of the 18th c. The regional budget institution of culture “Lipetsk • coin hoards regional paintings gallery” Main sections of collection: archeology, guns, coin hoards, textiles, porcelain, vintage ICOM Committee CAMOC 398050, Lipetsk, Lenin str., 7a Branches: • Paintings gallery named after N. A. Sysoev (Lipetsk re- The State Cultural Institution “Lipetsk regional museum gion, Lev-Tolstoy village, Kommunisticheskaya str., 14) of local history” • Fine Arts museum named after V. S. Sorokin – House 398050, Lipetsk region, Lipetsk, Lenina str., 25 of the Master (Lipetsk, Lenin str., 2) Branches: House Museum of G. Plehanov [email protected] [email protected] www.lokg.ru [email protected] Director Pavel Matviyets Director Lidia Katerinkina +7 (4742) 27 65 27 +7 (4742) 27 60 15 Executive secretary Polina Matviyets Executive secretary Yulia Murashkina +7 (4742) 27 86 68 +7 (4742) 27 02 86

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Revolution in 1917 museum became state Rostov Kremlin (1918) and then – Museum of local studies (1934).

In 1995 Rostov Kremlin was listed in the State Code of Most Valuable Objects of Cul- tural Heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation

Collection: over 92 000

Main sections of collection: ancient Russian art of the 12th – 17th cc., Russian painting of 18th – early 20th cc., Rostov enamel, ceramic pottery mutual funds, Russian and foreign porcelain, earthenware, glass and bone, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts, numismatics, archeology, weapons, manuscripts and rare books

Highlights: • Rostov enamel Last years’ main projects: • works by Kazimir Malevich • “Images of Rostov Veliky in the art of 20th c.” • “Gesture in the icon” ounded October 28 (November 10) in which was formed mainly during the second Main research areas: • Exhibition “From parsuna to the person” 1883 as a museum of church antiquities. half of the 17th c. as a result of construction • archeology • “ROMAnce. Rostov. Italian motives” FLocated in the architectural ensemble of activities of Metropolitan of Rostov and Yaro- • architecture the former bishop’s house (Rostov Kremlin), slavl Jonas III (Sysoevicha). After Russian • art and history ICOM Committees ICMAH, ICMS, DEMHIST

The State Cultural Institution “State Rostov-Jaroslavl architectural and art museum-reserve” 152151, Yaroslavl region, Rostov, Kremlin Branches: • Church of St. John the Theologian on Ishna (1693) • Monastery of St. Boris and St. Gleb (16th – 17th сс.) • Museum of Rostov merchants www.rostmuseum.ru www.facebook.com/rostmuseum Director Natalia Karovskaya +7 (48536) 6 15 02 [email protected]

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decoratively-applied art of 16th – 20th cc., Rybinsk museum-reserve iconpainting of 16th – 20th cc., folk art and ethnography of the Yaroslavl area of 18th – 20th cc., Russian and foreign weaponry of 16th – 20th cc., numismatics, monuments of book culture of 17th – 20th cc., archeology, natural history collections, materials on Rybinsk and Rybinsk’s region history and also on the city of Mologi, flooded by the Rybinsk reservoir

Highlights: • Vishnakov Ivan Jakovlevich. Portrait of Ksenia Tishnina, 1755 • Bazenov Ivan Vladimirovich. Portrait of Fedor Fedorovich Trapeznikov, 1838 • Karrachi Agostino. From an original. • Russian and Soviet porcelain from the Mercury and graces, 1580-s museum’s collection, including the history of the “1st of May” factory • Russian and foreign blanche arms from the museum’s collection • book monuments of 17th – 18th cc. as a participation in the preparation of the catalogue “Hand-written book and books of the Cyrillic print in the collection of the museums and archives of the Yaroslavl region” reated in 1910 by the Rybinsk section of (1912, by A. B. Ivanov) built in the richly orna- • study of the noble and rich merchant the Yaroslavl scientific society. Collec- mented “Russian style” families linked to the Rybinsk region Ction increase a lot with the items from private collections of local estates, nationalized after Collection: 103 220 items – general fund, Last years’ main projects: the Revolution 19 642 items – scientific-auxiliary • “The liberators of Europe and Europe… (from Borodino to Berlin)” for the 200th Principal exhibitions are placed in the build- Main sections of collection: Russian and for- anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, 2011 ing of the former “New Exchange house” eign painting, graphic arts of 16th – 21st cc., • “Italy – the motherland of classic art”, 2011 • icon “Vision of St. John Lestvichnik with • “Icons of the ‘Romanov’s letters’ in the life”, second half of 16th c. Yaroslavl region. The secrets and discov- Public institution of culture of the Yaroslavl area • collection of “merchant’s portraits” eries of the forgotten tradition”, 2010 “Rybinsk estate historical, architectural and artistic • “A century of the Rybinsk museum (for the museum-reserve” Main research areas: 100th anniversary of the museum)”, 2010 Yaroslavl region, Rybinsk, the Volga embankment, 2 • archaeological research of the Rybinsk • “Cake boards or a history with taste”, 2009 [email protected] region • “The art of the Yaroslavl and Kostroma www.rybmuseum.ru • late icon-painting of 17th – 19th cc., local regions in the 18th – 20th cc. Searches, find- Director Serguey Cherkalin icon painting traditions and the spiritual ings and discoveries”, Tretyakov Gallery in +7 (4855) 222 190, [email protected] culture of the Rybinsk region Moscow, 2008–2009 Executive secretary Larisa Barabanova • folk art +7 (4855) 283 930, [email protected] • fine arts of 18th – 20th cc. ICOM Committee: CIDOC

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ecision to open the Memorial S. A. Esenin Main research areas: S. A. Esenin House-Museum in Konstantinovo was • history of Konstantinovo village and adja- Dadopted by Minister Council in 1965. The cent areas inestimable help in the preparing and open- • Esenin’ milieu museum-reserve ing the Museum was offered by Esenin’ sis- • public education in Russia in the begin- ters Ekaterina Aleksandrovna and Aleksandra ning of 20th c. Aleksandrovna. • folklore and traditions of the Ryazan district Situated in several buildings. Main building • history of the Museum development is: the country estate of poet’s parents (built in 1930, completely reconstructed in 2000). Last years’ main projects: House of L. I. Kashina was built in the 1880-s, • “I gave him myself entirely…” – a joint proj- major reconstruction performed in 1995. ect of three Museums – Yasnaya Polyana, Moscow L. N. Tolstoy Museum and The Collection: 27 509 items State Preserved Museum of S. A. Esenin, 2007 Main sections of collection: memorial materi- • “Poet and shepherd” – exhibition in the als, books, magazines, ethnography, manu- restored house of the priest I. Ya. Smirnov, scripts, art, photography 2010 • “The museum in my life” – 45 years since Highlights: founding Museum, 2010 • poet’s trunk, beginning of 20th c. • “Your acquaintance – Sergey Esenin” – • silk hat, beginning of 20th c., bought by guest exhibition in town Pavlovo, created S. A. Esenin in Petrograd in 1919 on the base of 150 exhibits from Museum • icon “Saint Reverend Sergy Radonezsky”, fund, 2011 beginning of 20th c. The gift from Grand • Guest exhibition in Voronezh city, cre- Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna for Esenin’s ated on the base of the Museum’s funds, performance before injured soldiers 2012 • coat, beginning of 20th c., bought by S. A. Esenin while traveling with I. Duncan ICOM Committee INTERCOM to Europe and America in 1922–1923

The State Museum-reserve of S. A. Esenin 391103, Ryazanskaya oblast, Rybnovsky district, village Konstantinovo [email protected] www.museum-esenin.ru Director Boris Ioganson +7 (4912) 42 81 96 [email protected] Executive secretary Ulyana Titova +7 (4912) 42 81 96 [email protected]

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• “the exile house” where I. S. Turgenev • history of the estate and places connected Spasskoe-Lutovinovo lived during his exile in 1852–1853 with Turgenev’s life • Estate complexes as architectural monu- Collection: 8089 items – basic fund, 13 965 ments and examples of landscape I. Turgenev museum-reserve items – scientific auxiliary fund gardening • epoch as a whole, culture and way of life Main sections of collection: furniture, porce- in the country estates of Turgenev’s time lain, books, manuscripts, graphic art, photos • writer’s literary and family connections • his friends and neighbors, writers and Highlights: poets Turgenev was acquainted with • pieces of furniture, pictures and other objects from the estate Last years’ main projects: • personal belongings of I. S. Turgenev (a • Opening of a new exhibition hall with all hat, sporting gun made by Czech gunsmith the necessary modern equipment, 2006 A. V. Lebeda, and other hunting devices) • Collections of other museums have been • among other things are musical instru- exhibited as well. These museums include ments, which were played by serf musi- the State Literary Museum (Moscow), the cians, sculptures of the writer by M. M. An- State Historical Museum (Moscow), the tokolskiy and J. A. Polonskaya, etc. Pushkin’s House (IRLI RAS) the A. S. Push- kin State Museum (Moscow), the State Main research areas: Pushkin Museum of Arts, etc. • I. S. Turgenev’s biography and literary works ICOM Committee ICLM

ounded on the 22nd of October in 1922 by (1809) built with the money of I. S. Tur- a resolution of Public Education Commis- genev’s grandfather I. I. Lutovinov Fsariat. • almshouse (1872), built in with the money of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and his brother Complex of estate buildings (late 18th – early Nikolai Sergeevich for elderly peasants 19th cc.) includes: and former house servants • writer’s memorial house • couch-house and a stable, a bathhouse • chapel and the church of Transfiguration and a cellar

“The I. S. Turgenev State Memorial Museum and Scenery Preserve “Spasskoye-Lutovinovo” 303002, Orel region, Mtsenskiy district, Spasskoye- Lutovinovo, Museynaya str., 3 www.spasskoye-lutovinovo.ru Director Elena Levina +7 (48646) 6 73 00, [email protected] Executive secretary Elena Kiryuhina +7 (48646) 6 72 66, [email protected]

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ormed in 1937, it was based on the art • Jean-François de Trois. Amour and Psyche Tver regional Gallery collections of an pre-existing regional (Zephyre and Flore), first half of the 18th c. Fstudy museum (established in 1866). (1719?) • Francesco Battaglioni. Ruins of the Located in the Tver “travelling” imperial theatre, Second half of the 18th c. palace – a monument of Russian architecture • John Baptist in the desert praying to Sav- of 18th – 19th cc. (architectures: P. R. Nikitin, iour in clouds, 1413–1425 M. F. Kazakov, K. I. Rossi, A. I. Rezanov) • Mikhail and Arseny Tverski with Tverski and the “Transfiguration”, 17th c. Collection: 36 184 items Main research areas: Main sections of collection: sacral (“ancient • research on the galleries collections and Russian”) art of 14th – 20th cc., Russian paint- history ing, graphics and sculpture of 18th – 20th • recognition and studying materials on the cc., West European art of 15th – 20th cc., Tver imperial palace Russian, European and oriental decorative • artistic life in the Tver region and applied arts of 17th – 20th cc. Last years’ main projects: Highlights: • “European Season” – works of foreign art • Christ Panthocrator from a deesis, last from the collections of Tver oblast’ Painting quarter of the 15th c. Gallery. Tver, 2008 • A. G. Venetsyanov “A shepherd with a • Cycle of fund exhibitions, devoted to whistle flute, 1829 the 200th anniversary of the Auerbach – • F. S. Rokotov. Portrait of the countess Agraf- Kuznetsov Konakov faience factory. Nev- ena (Agrippina) Alexandrovna Kurakina er, 2009 (1734–1791), end of 1760-s – beginning of • “Romantic Russia: paintings and graphics 1770-s from the collections of Tver oblast’ Painting • Ya. M. Kolokolnikov-Voronin. Autoportrait Gallery”. Belgorod, 2010 (with wife – Stepanida Semenovna and • “From Art Nouveau to the social realism. son Alexander, future artist), early 1820-s Russian art of the first half of the 20th cen- • S. Yu. Zhukovski. Night in spring. Dawn, tury from the collections of Tver oblast’ 1903 Painting Gallery”. Tver, 2011 State institution “Tver regional painting gallery” • Salomon de Bray. The banishment of Hagar, 1656 ICOM Committee ICFA 170100, Tver, Sovetskaya str., 3 Branches: • Memorial – Fine Arts museum of Vladimir Serov • “Chayka cottage” center for arts and culture www.gallery.tver.ru Director Tatiana Kuyukina +7 (4822) 34 25 61, katisс[email protected] Executive secretary Tamara Gusarova +7 (4822) 34 57 64, [email protected]

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Total area of estate: 14,1 hectares, including Main research areas: life and work of Vasily V. D. Polenov 17 memorial buildings (all based on Polenov’s Dmitrievich Polenov and Elena Dmitrievna Po- designs, late 19th – early 20th c.) lenova and the artists of their circle

Museum-Reserve Collection: 14 429 items Last years’ main projects: • “K. A. Korovin (1861–1939)” from the fund Main sections of collection: paintings, gra- of the V. D. Polenov museum, 2011 phics, decorative and applied arts, museum • “Yakunchikova’s three sisters” from the documents, memorial books, memorial pho- fund of the V. D. Polenov museum, 2011 tos, sculpture, archaeology, weapons, numis- • “Continuation of artistic traditions in Pole- matics, architecture, park. novs’ family” by M. V. Polenova-Lyapina and N.V. Polenova. The Darwin Museum, Highlights: 2011 • V. D. Polenov “The Christ and the sinner”, • Annual exhibition of the spring festival for “Golden Autumn” children’s creativity “Kurochka Ryaba”, • P. Veronese’s “The battle of Jacob and since 2011 God” • the biggest collection in Russia of works ICOM Committees DEMHIST, ICFA by M. V. Yakunchikova

amous “House on the Oka River” was Situated in the «Big House» – unique monu- founded October 15, 1892 by the Aca- ment of architecture of the late 19th c. The Fdemician of Painting, the first national artist Big House occupies the central place of the of Russia Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844– estate ensemble (built in 1892 on Vassily 1927) and is the first national museum in the Polenov’s project). Still contains 5 working Russian countryside. stoves and a fireplace in the library.

State memorial historical, artistic and natural museum-reserve V. D. Polenov 301011, Russia, Tula Region, Zaok region, Strakhovo polenovo@tarusa.ru www.polenovo.ru Director Natalya Polenova

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• hand-written Book of Gospels with the Vladimir Suzdal silver engraved cover done by Afanasy Trukhmensky 17th c. Museum-reserve • art glass collection Main research areas: • history of the Vladimir region • museum collections

Last years’ main projects: • “The Vladimir Autocrat” to 900-year anniversary of Andrei Bogolubsky, 2011 • “The search is never ending”, 2010 • Bogolyubovo village • Intermuseum exhibitions “Holy Russia”, • Kideksha village Paris – Moscow – St. Petersburg, 2010– 2012 It also includes 55 monuments and architec- • “The Golden Map of Russia” in the State tural ensembles of 12th – 20th cc. Eight of them Tretyakov Gallery, 2002 are included in the UNESCO World Heritage • “The Art of the Vladimir Region”, Yuzhno- list. Among them – the Golden Gate (12th c.), Sakhalinsk, 2011 the Dormition Cathedral (12th c.), St. Deme- trius Cathedral (12th c.), the Nativity Cathedral Exhibitions brought from other museums: in Suzdal (13th c.), the church of Boris and • “Images of Italy”, The State Hermitage, Gleb in Kideksha (12th c.), etc. 2010 • “The Golden Age of the Russiam Jewel- Collection: 437 009 lery”, The Moscow Kremlin Museums, ounded in1854 on the initiative of the pro- Nowadays the museum-reserve includes the 2011 vincial statistic committee. Collection was objects in: Main sections of collection: archaeology, in- • “Russian Winter from the Russian Muse- Fbased on private collections; after the revolu- • Vladimir town cluding the collection from the Sunghir Paleo- um”, The Russian Museum, 2011 tion – on nationalized nobles’ property, Alex- • Suzdal town lithic site; icons; fine and applied art; numis- ander Nevsky Community storage • Gus’-Khrustalny town matics; rare books; naïve art ICOM Committee CAMOC

Highlights: Federal State Government-financed Institution • figurine of a horse found at the Sunghir of Culture “The State Vladimir and Suzdal history, Paleolithic site – 25 000 years old architecture and arts Museum-reserve” • Bogolubovo Icon of the Mother of God, 12th c. 600000, Vladimir, Bolshaya Moskovskaya str., 43 • Maksimovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, www.vladmuseum.ru 13th c. [email protected] • Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God by Director Svetlana Melnikova Andrei Rublev, 1395 or 1408 +7 (4922) 32 25 15 • Intercession of the Mother of God Icon, Executive secretary Tatiana Menshikova 15th c. +7 (4922) 32 74 50 • Western and southern “Golden Doors” from [email protected] the Nativity Cathedral in Suzdal, 13th c.

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pened in 1919. Situated in the Gover- Last years’ main projects: nor’s House (1821–1823) and Metropoli- • “MAKOVSKYE” Otan’s Chambers (1680-s) by order of Rostov • “Seashores. K. Korovin” and Yaroslavl Metropolitan Iona • “Golden century. To millennium of Yaro- slavl” Collection: 74 699 items • Aleksander Petrov “My love”. Making a movie Main sections of collection: Russian icon • “101 ikons from Yaroslavl”, exhibition in painting of 13th – 17th cc., Russian painting of State Tretyakov gallery 18th – 20th cc., graphic arts, Russian and Eu- ropean sculpture 19th – 20th cc., Russian and ICOM Committees COMCOL, ICOM-CC, ICEE he museum was founded in 1968. The • locomotives European numismatics, European furniture display shows all the stages of develop- 16th – 17th cc., porcelain and glass Tment of Russian railway transport through the ICOM Committee CIMUSET history of a particular company Highlights: Yaroslavl Art Museum • works by K. Korovin 150000, Yaroslavl, 23, Volzhskaya Naberezhnaya th Collection: over 10 000 items • Russian painting of the 20 c. Branches: • graphics • House in Novinskaya Str. Main sections of collection: cars and oth- Museum of JSC “Tver Wagon Works” • Russian and European sculpture from • House-museum of the sculptor A. M. Opekushin th th er products of the plant, weapons, photo 170003, Tver, Peterburgskoe ave., 45b 19 – 20 cc. [email protected] materials, archival documents, household http://artmuseum.yar.ru items Director Larisa Khokhlova Main research areas: Director Alla Hatyhina +7 (4822) 55 92 10 • artistic life of Yaroslavl +7 (4852) 32 95 85, [email protected] Highlights: [email protected] • collections of Yaroslavl Art Museum Executive secretary Valentina Tuleneva • wall clock that belonged to the first direc- • artistic life in the Yaroslavl region +7 (4852) 32 81 85, [email protected] tor of the plant • museology

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The city center of Yaroslavl is included in the Main research areas: Yaroslavl Museum-Reserve UNESCO World Heritage list • history of the Yaroslavl region • ancient Russian art and culture Collection: 342 295 items • history of the discovery and study of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” Main sections of collection: icons of 16th – 19th cc., paintings, graphics, rare books, docu- Last years’ main projects: mentary fund, photos, textiles, silverware, • Exhibition “From the time of Yaroslav”, metal, foundation of the tree, ceramics and archeological exhibition for the 1000th glass, numismatic, archeology anniversary of Yaroslavl, in conjunction with the Institute of Archaeology of Aca- Highlights: demy of Sciences, 2010 • collection of manuscripts, including those • Exhibition “Holy Russia”, inter-museum written on parchment paper (end of 12th – project, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, beginning of 20th cc.) 2010–2011 • collection of early printed books, includ- • Catalogue “Cyrillic edition in stores Ros- ing incunabula, palaeotypes, first printed tov-Yaroslavl land (1652–1700)”, jointly books (15th – 20th cc.) with the State Museum-Preserve “Rostov • collection of silverware of Yaroslavl and Kremlin” and Archaeographic Laboratory other Russian jewelry centers (13th – of History Department of Moscow State beginning of 20th cc.) University, 2009 • first print edition of the “The Tale of Igor’s • Exhibition “Russian icon of 15th – 20th cc.”, Campaign” (1800) with the Kostroma Museum-Reserve, Za- • shroud by seamstress Anna Tushina, 1539 greb, 2010 • sakkos of Jonah Sysoevich, Metropolitan • Modernization of the exhibition “The Tale of Rostov and Yaroslavl Stroganovse wing, of Igor’s Campaign”, 2010 ounded in 1865. The museum building Monastery (16th – 19th cc.), which includes 1665 is a collection of outstanding complex the pearl of ancient Russian architecture – • icon of the 16th c. from the iconostasis of ICOM Committee ICMAH Fof monuments of ancient architecture 16th – The Savior Transfiguration Cathedral (1516). the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral 17th cc. Museum is located in the architectural Museum consists of five churches of Yaroslavl ensemble of the former Holy Transfiguration architecture school of the 17th c.

Yaroslavl State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve 150000, Yaroslavl, Bogoyavlenskaya Sq. 25 Branch: Museum “Space”, Nikulskoe village, Tutaev district of the Yaroslavl region www.yarmp.yar.ru Director Natalia Levitskaya +7 (4852) 30 56 30, [email protected] Executive secretary Olga Troitskaya +7 (4852) 30 35 37, [email protected] International contacts Svetlana Blazhevskaya, Deputy Director of Science +7 (4852) 30 35 37, [email protected]

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n June 10, 1921 Yasnaya Polyana was wan Literature, National Taiwan Museum Yasnaya Polyana declared a state museum. Situated in the (2006–2007). Jointly with State A. Pushkin Ocomplex of 3 buildings of the memorial estate Museum (Moscow) and M. Sholokhov Mu- (early 19th c.) seum-reserve (Veshenskaya). The project Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate was coordinated by the State Museum and Collection: 45 215 items Exhibition Center “ROSIZO” • Exhibition “History of the Tolstoy Family – Main sections of collection: paintings, sculp- History of Russia” (Moscow), 2008 tures, drawings, photographs, numismatics, • Exhibition “Tolstoy and Chekhov – Chek- applied art object, historical everyday life hov and Tolstoy”. Jointly with the Anton object, objects made of precious stones and Chekhov State Literary and Memorial Mu- metals, rare books seum-reserve “Melikhovo”, 2009 • Exhibition “Garden of Tolstoy”. Museum- Highlights: reserve of M. Sholokhov, Rostov region, • memorial collection of historical everyday village of Veshenskaya, 2009 – 2010 life object • Exhibition “Place of Genius. Lieu du Ge- • Leo Tolstoy’s personal library with his pri- nie“ (as part of the year of France in Rus- vate notes sia). Jointly with a number of literary museums in Russia and France, 2010 Main research areas: • Exhibition “Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tol- • source study stoy”. In cooperation with the F. Dostoevsky • museum studies Literary and Memorial Museum, 2010 • history of literature • Exhibition “Leopardi – Tolstoy: Breath of • cultural studies Eternity” (as part of the year of Italian language and culture in Russia and Russian Last years’ main projects: language and culture in Italy), 2011 • Exhibition “Heading Towards the People’s Literature – Dialogue Between Russia ICOM Committee ICLM, MPR, DEMHIST, and Taiwan”. National Museum of Tai- CECA, ICOFOM

Federal State Budget Institution of Culture “State Memorial and Natural Preserve “Leo Tolstoy Museum-estate “Yasnaya Polyana” 301214, p/o Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekino distr., Tula reg. www.yasnayapolyana.ru General director Vladimir Tolstoy +7 (4872) 38 67 10, [email protected] Executive secretary Valentina Lebedeva +7 (48751) 76 1 53, [email protected] International contacts Elena Petrova +7 (48751) 76 5 74, [email protected]

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House-museum of school years of Y. A. Gaga- Yuri Gagarin museum rin in Gagarin. In 1969 the decision to adapt the house under a museum was accepted. House-museum of children’s years Y. A. Gaga- rin in Klushino it is located in a building which has been constructed in 1971 specially for a museum

House-museum of parents of Y. A. Gagarin in 1961 has been presented by the government of the USSR to parents of the first cosmonaut

Art gallery – since 1991 the exposition of art gallery takes place in a building of the Tikhvin church which is constructed in style of classicism

Historic museum of local lore takes place in the building of the Blagoveshchensk cathedral constructed in Neorussian style on donations of gzhatsk merchant widow A. I. Komarova

Museum of the First flight takes place in a Main research areas: building constructed for needs of automatic • history and the nature of Gagarin (Gzhatsk) telephone exchange area • life and Y. A. Gagarin’s activity onducts his history from opening of which have arrived from Smolensk regional Collection: 68 950 items • games of the childhood of Yury Gagarin museum of local lore on November, 7th, museum of local lore and the State historical (1930–40-s) C1948. In a basis of its collection the exhibits museum (Moscow) have laid down Main sections of collection: paintings, weap- • history of the first flight of the person in onry, drawings, documents, rare books, space Smolensk regional official body of culture establishment sculpture, ethnography subjects, applied art • humanitarian aspects of outer space explo- «Y. A. Gagarin Incorporated memorial products, numismatic subjects, archeology ration museum» Y. A. Gagarin’s Memorial museum complex subjects, subjects of history of techniques, • art and architecture history 215010, the Smolensk region, Gagarin, Gerzen str., 7 natural history Branches: Last years’ main projects: • Historic museum of local lore Highlights: • International Socially-scientific readings • Art gallery • Y. A. Gagarin’s private vehicle “Volga” devoted to memory of Y. A. Gagarin – • Museum of the First flight • the bus “LAZ” which delivered on April, annually on March, 9–12th, since 1974 www.museum.ru/gagarin 12th, 1961 Y. A. Gagarin and G. S. Titov to • International art exhibition “Gagarin’s a launching pad spring”, 2011 Director Maria Stepanova • Surdobarokamera SBK-48 where the first • Youth game relay race “Gagarin’s starts”, +7 (48135) 4 88 37, [email protected] members of the first group of cosmonauts annually on April, 12th, since 2000 Executive secretary Svetlana Grabovets had training preparation • Museum of the First flight opening, 2011 +7 (48135) 4 87 47, [email protected] • E. A. Karpova’s Archive, the first chief of International contacts Svetlana Lebedeva the Center of preparation of cosmonauts ICOM Committee INTERCOM +7 (48135) 4 46 15, [email protected]

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Region’s structure is formed by the Great Russian River – Volga – the main artery and transport route in Russia

One object from the UNESCO World Heritage List located within the borders of the region

Consists of 14 federal subjects

Population over 30 000 000

Total area 1 038 000 km2

Time zone MSK (UTC+04:00), YEKST (UTC+06:00)

stablished in 1969 as a development of Last years’ main projects: an existing monument of architecture, his- • The main exposition “The Bolgar city and Etory and archeology – The Bolgar site (9th – its districts” 15th cc.) • “The Bolgar site – an open air museum” • “Ethnographic monuments of Bolgar” Situated in the monument of architecture – • “History of the region in 17th – 20th c.” an orthodox church of The Assumption of the • “The Suvar site” Virgin (1732–1734) ICOM Committee ICOFOM Collection: 102 913 items The State Budgetary Institution of Culture of the Main sections of collection: archeology, eth- Tatarstan Republic “State historical and architectural nology, numismatics, documents, photogra- museum-reserve of Bolgar” phy fund, technics, weaponry, rare books 422840, Tatarstan republic, Spasski district, Bolgar city, Nazarovykh str., 67 Highlights: [email protected] • Kozhaevski treasure www.bolgar.info • Komiternovski treasure Director Rafail Makhmutov +7 (84347) 30 456 Main research areas: Executive secretary Gulnara Biryukova • Archeology research +7 (84347) 39 414 • Research on the museum collections International contacts Liliya Safina

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• Russian painting: F. S. Rokotov, V. L. Boro- Chuvash State art museum vikovskiy, V. A. Tropinin, I. K. Aivazovskiy, I. N. Kramskoy, V. G. Perov, A. I. Kuindzhi, I. I. Levitan, V. D. Polenov • art of 1890-s to early 20th c.: K. A. Korovin, V. A. Serov, R. R. Falk, K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, B. M. Kustodiev, works by painters of “The world of art”, “Knave of diamonds”, “Four arts”, “The union of Russian painters” • Meissen and Sevres porcelain of the 18th c. • works by of R. Gloster, 15th c.

Last years’ main projects: • Vasiliy Nesterenko. Painting. In the course of Moscow Days in Chuvash republic, msk (Tatarstan), Nizhniy Novgorod, Mos- 2010 cow), 2011 • “Isaak Levitan. For his 150th anniversary”. • “The way to temple” (Moscow – Chebok- The canvas “Dandelion” from the museum sary). Joint project of the International fund collection took part in the exhibition for “Cultural heritage” under the guidance of Levitan’s 125th anniversary in Tretyakov V. G. Kartsev (Moscow) and Chuvash art Gallery (Moscow), 2010–2011 museum collection with the participation of • “Art-neighbours” – museum exhibition Volga region creative circles’ artists, 2011 project on the effort to attract professional artists from neighbor regions (Nizhneka- ICOM Committee ICFA

reated in 1939 by the Soviet of People’s Highlights: commissars in Chuvash ASSR decree • Old Russian art (icon, sculpture, repous- C#1192 from the 17th of September 1939 sage, books) includes the icons from Che- boksary churches of Moscow school in the Collection: 28 013 items 16th – 18th cc., and also subscription and dated icons of the 19th c. Main sections of collection: painting, graphic • books published in Russia in the 17th – 18th cc., arts, sculpture, decorative and applied arts print church books of the 19th – 20th cc.

The budget institution “Chuvash state art museum” Director Gennadiy Kozlov Cheboksary, Kalinin str., 60 +7 (8352) 63 63 04 [email protected] Branches: Executive secretary Gennadiy Ivanov • Memorial flat of M. S. Spiridonov +7 (8352) 63 60 09 • Center of modern art of Chuvash state art museum [email protected] [email protected] International contacts Tatyana Krasnova [email protected] +7 (8352) 62 42 75 www.artmuseum.ru [email protected]

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Highlights: • Archaeological collection Abashevskaya of Mari El Republic Balanovsky and cemeteries Main research areas: study on the collection • National holiday costumes 18th – 20th cc. of figurative arts of the Mari El republic

Last years’ main projects: Last years’ main projects: • “Chuvash folk costume”. Embroidery 18th – • “The return. From Europe to Russia”. Rus- 19th cc., Silver jewelry and beads sian – Swiss artist Alexandr Benois di • “Educator of the Chuvash people I. Yakov- Stetto – paintings, graphics, documental lev”. Personal belongings, documents, materials, 2008 photographs • “Zurab Tsereteli” – national Russian artist, • “Chuvash folk arts and crafts” President of Russian Academy of Arts – paintings, graphics, sculpture, enamel, reated in 1921 by the Regional sector for ICOM Committee ICFA 2008 museums and heritage preservation of • “Precious patterns (gold in the monuments CChuvashia Republic decree of decorative – applied art of 14th – 20th cc.)” from the collection of the State His- Collection: over 180 000 ocated in 2 modern buildings: torical Museum (Moscow), 2010 L• Museum of fine arts of Mari El repub- • Opening of a virtual department of the Main sections of collection: subjects of lic (1981 by V. I. Babenko). Total area: State Russian museum (200 museal and decorative-applied art of 18th – 19th cc., or- 2168 m2. Exhibition area: 810 m2 pedagogical programs and video materi- nament of silver, embroidery, woodcarving, • The national fine arts gallery (2007 by als), 2010 musical tools, the materials of natural-scien- V. H. Gorban). Equipped with specialized • Opening of the resource center with the tific fund, memorial complexes of scientific systems of climate-control, of gaseous fire support of the State Russian museum, biologists, monuments of flora and fauna of suppression, surveillance cameras and 2011 the region, collection of excavation of epoch a lift adapted for visitors with restricted • The Renaissance Light. Paintings and of bronze mobility. Total area: 3446, 5 m2. Exhibition sculpture from the State Hermitage col- area: 1188 m2 lections” – works from 15th and 16th cc., 2011 The budget institution “Chuvashia National Museum” Collection: 7634 items ICOM Committee ICFA 428032, Chuvashia Republic, Cheboksary, Red sq., 5 Main sections of collection: painting, drawing, Branches: sculpture, decorative arts • Chapaev Museum (Cheboksary) State budgetary cultural institution of the Mari El • Ivanov Literature Museum Highlights: Republic “The republic museum of Fine Arts” • Sespel Museum (Cheboksary) • Mari El figurative and decorative – applied Yoshkar-Ola city, Gogola str., 15 • Sespel Museum (Sespel) arts Director Elena Burnasheva [email protected] • Russian painting, graphics, sculpture, +7 (8362) 41 22 54 [email protected] decorative – applied arts (end of 19th – be- [email protected] www.chnm.ru ginning of 21st cc.) and a West European International contacts Natalya Stepanova Director Irina Menshikova paintings and graphics collection (single +7 (8362) 45 52 37 +7 (8352) 62 41 24 objects) [email protected]

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stablished at the October 2nd, 1984 to Homeland of V. I. Lenin conserve memorial view of homeland of EVladimir Lenin, but in 1990-s it concentrated its research on the original historical view of Ulyanovsk and cultural legacy of the 2 half of the 19th c.

There are 175 monuments of history and culture and nearly 100 objects of cultural legacy in Ulyanovsk – 143 of them are situated on the territory of memorial state museum (among them 31 object of federal status, 116 objects • collection of the Grammar School’s of local status, 28 objects of Ulyanovsk mu- textbooks, course programs for public nicipality). Museum is making consistent ef- schools. Teaching aids (a map of the hemi- fort conservation, restoration, reconstruction spheres of the Earth. St. Petersburg, 1841, architectural and historical monuments. Since map for the study of sacred and ancient the establishment of Museum 42 objects have church history. Russia, the end of 19th c.) been restored. Extensive work of historical • collection of folklore items from the history reconstruction of the city improvement was of the peoples of the Middle Volga Region made by Museum (paving, wood sidewalks, (costumes, engravings. London, Paris, lights, booth of policeman were restored on beginning of 19 century; engravings by Moscow str.). 169 memorial tablets at the his- M. Makhayev “View of the city Sinbirsk toric buildings of the city and 7 light-pointer from the north-west arrival”) with picture of the lost monuments of Simbirsk • collection of tools, machinery and craft- were mounted works of Simbirsk • collection of the sales packaging 19th – Collection: 39 107 items 20th cc.

Main sections of collection: rare books, art Main research areas: history, culture, Sim- The State Historical Memorial Complex • MC “Town building and architecture of Simbirsk – materials, wood works, photos, textile, arche- birsk – Ulyanovsk household in the second th th “The Homeland of V. I. Lenin” Ulyanovsk” ology objects, numismatics, ivories, ceramics half of 19 – first half of 20 cc. 432017, Ulyanovsk, Lenina str., 98 • MC “Business and a cultural life of Simbirsk” Highlights of the collection: Last years’ main projects: • Exhibition hall “On Pokrovskaya Str.” Consists of: • collection of laboratory equipment for phy- • Exhibition Two Centuries of Grammar • Museum “Fire Fighting Service • Museum “Popular schooling in Simbirsk sics classes at Russian Grammar School School of Simbirsk-Uliyanovsk vicegeren- of Simbirsk – Ulyanovsk“ province in 70–80-s of 19th c.” in the 19th c.: Sundial. Germany, 1840; cy, 2009 • Museum Center for Children • Museum “Simbirsk Grammar School” Boiler Franklin, Russia, the end of 19 c.; • Exhibition The Man in the Mirror of History, [email protected] • Museum “The photograph of Simbirsk” meteorological observation instruments 2010 www.ulzapovednik.ru • IEC “Trade and handicraft of Simbirsk” collection of the late 19th c.; Barometer Par- • Exhibition Germany in the camera, 2010 • Museum “Post Service of Simbirsk“ Director Irina Kotova rot, barometer Fortin, heliograph Velichko, • Exhibition series in cooperation with the • Museum “Chuvash school of Simbirsk. Executive secretary Irina Gordeeva Glazenapa’s ring, Pikhte mirror State Central Theatre Museum named af- The flat of I. Y. Yakovlev.” +7 (8422) 32 55 13 • collection of astronomical observations ter A. A. Bakhrushin and Moscow Art The- International contacts Oksana Solovey • Museum “Simbirsk meteorological station. Planetarium.“ maps: Maps of the Sky. England, Ger- ater School +7 (8422) 32 45 32 • Memorial estate of a city life “Simbisk in 19th to the many, the Netherlands, Italy, middle of the th th beginning of 20th c.” 18 – beg. of the 20 cc. ICOM Committee ICR

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cial Realism collection, works by “Lianozovo” Complex of Small Arms art group and graphic school of Nizhny Tagil ounded in February of 2004 as State Last years’ main projects: Cultural Institution «The Kalashnikov • “Steps to success”. Exhibition about ex- Highlights: FMuseum» according to the Decree of the perimental and trial designs of gunsmith • “The Red River Kama” – an oil painting by Udmurt Republic Administration No. 1347-r. in Izhevsk Alexander Repin, 1975–76 In December 2004 the museum was renamed • “The Best Innovative design in and around • “Dagestan” – the watercolor series by Ivan as State Cultural Institution “The Kalashnikov small arms”. Competition for students and Borisov, 1969–72 Museum and Exhibition Complex of Shoo- young specialists • “Fantomchiki” – an oil painting by Leo ting Arms”. The opening of the museum took • “The Operation on Borodina str., 19”. Kropiwnickiy, 1993 place on 4th of November, 2004 on the occa- Sporting and intellectual game for senior • “The Bazhov’s Tales” – an oil painting by sion of 85 anniversary of the great arms de- pupils Peter Oborin, 1986 signer M. T. Kalashnikov • “10 Steps to Victory!” Guide-book with creative tasks for children 7–12 years by Main research areas: Situated in two-storey building with a socle exhibition “The whole of Russia still re- • works by Alexander Repin, Ivan Borisov, was built specially for museum in High Tech members…” Anatoliy Filimonov, Leo Kropiwnickiy, style. Total area: 4012 m2 • “From the History of arms manufacture”. Eugene Kropiwnickiy Museum anthology (issue 4) Collection: 10 894 items Last years’ main projects: ICOM Committees INTERCOM, AVICOM, stablished in February 2001 for the storing, • “Beauty for Everybody!” Together with the Main sections of collection: articles of per- ICOMAM investigating, researching, presenting and Perm State Art Gallery, 2008 sonal fund Kalashnikov: photos and written Epromotion of the Perm arts. The gallery is lo- • “A Comet’s Tail”. The project is the 100th materials, personal belongings, furniture, Budgetary Cultural Institution of Udmurt Republic cated on the first floor of the six-storey building anniversary of Futurism, 2009 books, gifts, fine art, a collection of weapons – «The Kalashnikov Museum and Exhibition Complex • “Industry. Where will be there a garden combat and sports hunting, domestic and for- of Small Arms» Collection: 1260 items city?” Together with the Perm Regional eign origin, as well as weapon supplies, mu- Museum, 2010 Udmurt Republic, Izhevsk, Borodina str., 19 seum collection updated materials on Izhevsk Main sections of collection: Russian Graphic [email protected] gunsmiths Art of the 19th – 21st cc., Perm artists, The So- ICOM Committee ICEE www.museum-mtk.ru Priority areas of research: Director Nadezhda Vechtomova • history of small arms production in Izhevsk +7 (3412) 51 45 38 Gallery «Maris – Art» Perm, Komsomolsky prospect, 8 [email protected] www.marisart.ru http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gallery-Maris- Art/123186317741198 Director Tatiana Permyakova +7 (432) 210 56 76 International contacts Vadim Zubkov +7 (912) 784 36 88 [email protected]

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stablished for the purpose of preserving Kazan Kremlin of the national identity of the architectural Eenvironment of the city of Kazan, the Kazan Kremlin revival as a historical, cultural and administrative center of the Republic of Tatarstan

Kremlin is a complex of archaeological, historical, and architectural monuments that has appeared and functioning since the foundation of the city in 11th c. till nowadays. The medieval fortress, with a regular layout and development of 16th – 19th cc. with revealed archaeological fragments of fortifications and constructions of 10th – 16th cc., constitutes the basis of the Complex. Besides, the Ka- zan Kremlin is an Archaeological Monument containing a unique cultural layer reflecting 5 stages of the development of the Kremlin Complex. The Museum-Reservation includes: a “Kazan Kremlin” Hill Fort (of 10th – 16th cc.), a stone-brick Kremlin (of 16th – 18th cc.), architectural structure (16th – 19th cc.) In 2005 the • Kazan Kremlin history Qol Sharif Mosque had been reconstructed • archaeological survey (together with other scientific c.) Included in UNESCO List of World Natural • research of the Tatar (Turkic-Tatar) Civiliza- and Cultural Heritage since 2000 tion and the Statehood in general • scientific researches in fields of geology Collection: 14 566 items and palaeontology

Main sections of collection: fine arts sources; Last years’ main projects: State-Funded Institution “State Historic Architectural Junker School) objects of interest; written sources; natural • “Children of Gods. The ancient heroes and Art Museum-Reservation “The Kazan Kremlin” • Exhibition Hall “Manege” (opened on October, science collections in ancient and modern art” (exposition 420014, Republic of the Tatarstan, Kazan, Kremlin, 2009 yr. in building of the former Manege) included about two hundreds of exhibit P.O.B. 20 [email protected] Highlights: items and covered the time interval from www.kazan-kremlin.ru Includes: • archaeological materials connected with the 7th c. B.C. till 18th – 19th cc.) and had • “Hermitage-Kazan” Center (opened on August, 23, Director Ramil Khayrutdinov the history of the Kazan Kremlin been exhibited in 2009 2005 yr. in building of the Former Junker School) +7 (843) 567 80 02 • mineralogical and paleontological collec- • “An Arty-and Crafty Armament from • Museum of Islamic Culture (opened on February, [email protected] tions (including pareiasaurs – theroid pan- the State Hermitage’s Collection” (it got 2006 yr. in a Qol Sharif Mosque) Executive secretary Rimma Idrisova golins) acquainted with unique monuments of • Museum of Statehood History of Tatar People and the +7 (843) 567 80 30 • collection of manuscripts and Korans gunnery, applied and decorative arts as Republic of Tatarstan (opened on November, 6, [email protected] • gift fund of the first President of the Repub- well as artworks), 2011 2006 yr. in building of the former Palace Church) International contacts lic of Tatarstan M. Sh. Shaymyev • Exhibition “Spanish Arts from the State • Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan (opened on Svetlana Konovalova Hermitage’s Collection”, 2012 September, 1, 2008 yr. in building of the Former +7 (843) 567 80 03, [email protected] Main research areas: • iconography of the Kazan Kremlin ICOM Committee ICMAH

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stablished on March 17, 1894 when its • coach of the nobility, the middle of the 18th c. National Museum Regulations was approved and the Coun- • crater red-depicting women and Eros, the Ecil of the Kazan city scientific and industrial middle of the 4th c. BC Apulia (Southern museum was appointed. Opened on April 5 Italy) of Tatarstan Republic of 1895 • Gold Jewellery, Bulgar period

Main Museum building of the main museum – Main research areas: the former Guild Hall – was built in 1800. • setting up a modern fund storage After the fire of 1842 the building of the Guild • completion of a permanent exposition Hall was reconstructed by the design of arch. • restoration of fund collections I. P. Bessonov in 1847. In the 1890-s a part • learning modern electronic technologies of the building was equipped for a museum to develop the museum information sys- (arch. I. N. Kolmakov). The appearance of the tems building was radically changed in the 30-s of • complex development of the museum the 20th c. In 1995 the north-western part of the tourism activity building was restored as it looked to 1895 by • further development of the Tatarstan Na- the museum centenary (arch. S. A. Kozlova) tional Museum as a scientific and research center Collection: 863 456 items Last years’ main projects: Main sections of collection: archeology, • Exhibition and research project – an exhi- historical-everyday life collection, ethnogra- bition of museum rarities to the Kazan Mil- phy, numismatic, precious metals, weapons, lennium, 2005 documentary fund, fine arts, books, natural • Exhibition and research project – the per- history manent exhibition of the Tatarstan ancient history, 2006 Highlights: • Exhibition and research project – the exhi- • portrait of Likhachev. E. Egorov, Paris, bition “The world of musical instruments”, 1870 2007 • Ushebti. Green faience. Egypt, late period, State institution “National Museum of the Republic of • Museum-memorial of the Great Patriotic War 7th – 4th centuries B. C. ICOM Committees CAMOC, ICLM Tatarstan” • House-museum of V. I. Lenin 420111, Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Kremlevskaya Str., 2 • Museum of A. M. Gorkiy in the village of Krasnovidovo • Museum of Yanka Kupala in the village of Pechischi Branches: • Museum of L. N. Tolstoy (will be situated in buildings • Museum of E. A. Boratynskiy in a wing of the former of a country estate owned by Dideva-Gortalov in the Boratynskiys’ country estate 18th – 19th cc.) (1836–1840 by F. I. Petondi) • Museum of Tatarstan musical culture • Literature-memorial museum of A. M. Gorkiy http://tatar.museum.ru/nm/ • Literature museum of Gabdula Tukay • Museum of Tatar literature with the memorial flat of General director Gulchachak Nazipova Sharif Kamal +7 (843) 292 71 62 • Museum-flat of Musa Jalil [email protected] • Museum of Salikh Saydashev Executive secretary Yulia Kolova • Museum of Kaym Nasyri +7 (843) 292 63 85 • Memorial museum-flat of Nazib Zhiganov [email protected]

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stablished in 1960. The basis of museum • collection of Vladimir (Kibalchicha) (1920– collection were works of academic paint- 2005) Eing, artist Lucian Popov (1873–1914), who lived and worked in Orenburg. L. V. Popov Last years’ main projects: has created an artistic chronicle of the events • “The Swiss look” – solo exhibition ALESCO of the first Russian revolution of 1905–1907 share • V Regional exhibition of architectural works Located in the building (1814, arch. Stamp “Architecture of Orenburg region-2011” Malakhov), which housed the city council, a policeman and the magistrate court of wards. Museum was reconstructed in the 1870-s form ICOM Committee ICFA

Main sections of collection: collection of Oren- burg downy shawls, Old Russian painting, Russian painting of 18th – early 20th cc., Soviet The State budget cultural organization “Orenburg art 20–30-s, 40-s, 50-s, collection of works by regional museum of fine arts” Lucian Popov, Vladimir Kibalchich (Vladimir) 460014, Orenburg region, Orenburg, Kashirina str., 29 1920–2005, the department of arts and crafts [email protected] [email protected] Highlights of the collection: www.omizo.ru • collection of naive art Director Yuri Komlev • collection of downy shawls +7 (3532) 78 38 42

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The Gallery displays extensive collections Perm Art Gallery of the 15th – 21st cc. works of art by the Rus- sian and European painters and sculptors. There are also remarkable collections of the 16th –17th cc. icons of the world famous Stro- ganov icon-painting workshops, the unique cult wood carving sculptures dating back to the 17th – early 20th c. as well as a variety of fine collections of graphic, decorative and applied arts from different countries, centuries and artistic schools

Permanent exhibitions: • Russian Icons of the 16th –17th cc. • Perm Wooden Cult Sculptures of the 17th – early 20th cc. • Russian Art of the 18th – early 20th c. 1970-s was included into the UNESCO • European Art of the 15th – 18th cc. (Italy, list of the world artistic heritage as a great Holland, Flanders, France) artistic memoria • Collection of Russian art includes the pictures created by the most influential painters of 18th – early 20th c. such as F. Roko- tov, K. Bryullov, F. Matveev, V. Tropinin, I. Aivazovsky, I. Kramskoy, I. Repin, I. Shishkin, I. Levitan, A. Savrasov, F. Vasi- lyev, K. Korovin, V. Serov, K. Petrov-Vodkin, ince 1932 the gallery has been housed of Perm of the early 19th c. Now its spire K. Somov, N. Goncharova in the notable former cathedral church bell tower is an accepted symbol of the Sof Christ Transfiguration. The building is in city Main research areas: the late classicism style and is considered • collections: exploration, catalogues (print- to be a remarkable architectural memorial Collection: 50 727 items ed, electronic) • perspective scientific theme “Art culture of the Perm Krai and its links. 17th – 21th cc.” Highlights of the collection: • Icons of the Stroganov school. The Stro- Last years’ main projects: Perm State Art Gallery ganovs dynasty was prosperous landlords • “Kudymkor – Lokomotor of the Future” 614045, Perm, Komsomolsky Prospekt, 4 of Russia. Incl. “The Virgin of Vladimir with (Perm – Moscow), 2009 [email protected] the eighteen border scenes” • “The treasures of Perm Land” France, www.gallery.permonline.ru • Russian cult wooden sculptures of 17th – Lyon Fondation Fourvière – Musée de Director Julia Tavryzian early 20th cc. It depicts the unique images Fourvière, 2010 +7 (342) 212 22 50 of orthodox saints especially worshipped • “Karl Fabergé and his contemporaries”, Executive secretary Irina Fedotova in the Kama-river area. It is one of the Moscow, Kremlin Museums (Russian mu- +7 (342) 212 95 24 most rare and complete collections of seums’ collections), 2011 cult wooden sculpture in Russia. It has acquired the world-wide fame and in the ICOM Committees: ICFA

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museum of contemporary art, but a modern Main research areas: PERMM interactive site for discussions and collective • esthetics and practice of arte povera activity for artists, visitors and curators • public art • art in the city Located in the historical building of the old • children and contemporary art Riverside station (1939, by A. Z. Grinberg) • archivation of Moscow conceptualism; • contemporary practices in Perm art Total area: 3000 m2 Last years’ main projects: Collection: 904 items • Russian Povera. Project by Sergei Gordeyev, exhibition curator – Marat Guel- Main sections of the collection: paintings, man. September 25, 2008 – November 30, graphic art, sculpture, documents, printed 2008, Riverside station (Perm) materials (photographs, banners, etc.), • Night at the Museum. Exhibition curator – others (installations) Marat Guelman. December 25, 2009 – March 20, 2010, Museum of Contempo- Highlights of the collection: rary Art PERMM • works by Aleksander Brodsky (winner of • Aleksander Brodsky. Installations. April 02, Kandinsky prize, 2010) 2010 – May 10, 2010, Museum of Contem- • work by Anatoly Osmolovsky (winner of porary Art PERMM Kandinsky prize, 2007) • «Якщо/ Если/ IF». Ukrainian art at a tur- • O&A Florensky. Various Skeletons project. ning point. Exhibition curator Yekaterina 2008. Sculpture. Mixed technique Dyogot’. May 21, 2010 – July 10, 2010, • vitaliy Komar, Aleksander Melamid. Mau- Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM soleum installation. 1993–2007. Installa- • Boomerang. Perm Graphic Art Biennale. ounded on May 18, 2009 by the order of the opening of the Russian Povera. This ambi- tion. Mixed technique Main project curators: Marat Guelman, Perm Krai government dd. 01.04.2009. tious experiment was initiated by well-known • Moscow Archive of New Art (MANI). 1974– Irina Yashkova. 2010 FBut the Perm period in the history of contem- art collector Marat Guelman and senator Ser- 2006. Art objects, photographs, documenta- porary art began in September of 2008 with gei Gordeyev. Today PERMM is not only a tion of D. A. Prigov, L. Rubenshtein, A. Mona- ICOM Committee CIMAM styrsky, Collective Activity group and other Regional state autonomous entity representative of Moscow conceptualism «Museum of Contemporary Art» PERMM 614000, Perm, Monostyrskaya str., 2 [email protected] www.permm.ru http://rechnoy.livejournal.com/ (museum’s blog) General director Marat Guelman +7 (342) 219 91 72 [email protected] Executive secretary Maria Romashova +7 (342) 219 91 60 [email protected] International contacts Mikhail Surkov +7 (342) 219 91 79 [email protected]

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• M. P. Dmitriev “D. V. Sirotkin” (photograph Russian Museum on the porcelain, Nizhny Novgorod, 1890-s) • The folded travel camera “Cartridge Kodak № 5”, belonged to M. P. Dmitriev (USA, the of Photography end of 19th – beginning of 20th cc.)

Main research areas: history of photography in Nizhny Novgorod

Last years’ main projects: • International photographic festival “Vol- “Photography and Painting” studio was lo- zhskoye Biennale” cated here in 1873–1881. In the wing there • All-Russian photographic festival “Sveto- was arranged the glass house. In 1886 the pis” Maksim Dmitriev’s photographic studio was • Regional photographic festival in honour opened here. In these years the second floor of A. O. Karelin and M. P. Dmitriev was also overbuild. “The New Photography • Festival of humor photography “Photosme- of M. Dmitriev” remained in the building until hota” 1929, after that it became a state studio. From • Photographic project “The Anthology of the 1940-s there were various organizations Nizhny Novgorod photography” in the house. Now the former interior is mostly lost, except for the original wrought-iron stair- ICOM Committee ICEE case

Collections: 202 444 items

reated on the initiative of the public of lived and worked the famous Russian pho- Main sections of collection: photo positives Nizhny Novgorod in 1992. Located in tographers Andrey Osipovich Karelin and (based on photo paper, metal, glass, por- Cthe house (1828–1830 by I. E. Efimov) where Maksim Petrovich Dmitriyev. Andrey Karelin’s celain), photo negatives (based on glass, film), photo equipment, cinema equipment, stereo photographs and holograms, photo edition (postcards, albums, books etc.), The State Russian Museum of Photography correspondence and personal things of Russian Federation, 603005, Nizhny Novgorod, photographers, modern art based on pho- Piskunova Str., 9 tography [email protected] www.fotomuseum.nnov.ru Highlights: Director Vera Tarasova • O. Karelin “His Royal Highness the Duke +7 (831) 411 82 47 of Edinburg on the balcony of Nizhegorod- [email protected] skaya Fair house” (from “The Art Album of Executive secretary Elena Smirnova Real Life Photographs”, Nizhny Novgorod, +7 (831) 437 37 43 1875) [email protected] • O. Karelin “Girls with albums” (from “The International contacts Olga Karaseva Art Album of Real Life Photographs”, Nizh- ny Novgorod, 1876)

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Situated in the monument of the federal sig- Saratov Radishchev Fine nificance. The building was constructed especially for the museum in 1883–1885 (the Arts Museum project of architect Ivan V. Shtrom) Collection: over 30 000 items

Main sections of collection: iconography, Russian and foreign art (painting, graphics, sculpture), crafts, rare books, documentation • Robert R. Falk “Paris” Highlights: • Dmitriy D. Zhilinskiy “Young Sculptors” • Stomer Matthias “The Adoration of Herders” • Jean Baptiste Camille Corot “The Castle of Main research areas: Pierrefonds” • publishing of six-volume catalog of the • Vladimir L. Borovikovskiy “The Unknown museum collection; 3 volumes were pub- with the Child” lished: “Russian painting of the 18th – be- • Orest A. Kiprensky “The Portrait of ginning of the 20th c.” (2004), “Foreign Art” F. A. Golitsyn” (2008), “Russian painting of the 20th – be- • Ilya E. Repin “The portrait of Nadya Re- ginning of the 21st cc.” (2010) pina” • Viktor E. Borisov-Musatov “The Autumn Last years’ main projects: Motive” • Exhibition “The Travel of the Russian Paint- • Aleksandra A. Ekster “The Colour con- ings: the Travelling Painters in Saratov” struction” from the collection of The State Tretyakov Gallery, The Russian Museum, Saratov Radishchev Museum and The Gallery of the Volsk Local History Museum. Saratov Radishchev Museum, 2011 • Participation in the international exhibi- pen on the June 29th, 1885 by the ini- who donated his collection of works of art to tion ”Russian Avant-garde”. Palermo, Italy, tiative of Alexey P. Bogolubov, marine Saratov 2011 Opainter, the grandson of Alexander Radischev • Exhibition “Salvador Dali. Sacred Mes- sage”. Saratov Radishchev Museum, 2011 The State-funded Radischev Fine Arts Museum [email protected] • The exhibition “Spanish Art in the Col- 410600, Saratov, Radischev str., 39, building 1 www.radmuseumart.ru lection of the State Hermitage Museum”. Branches: General director Tamara Grodskova Saratov Radishchev Museum, 2010 In Saratov: +7 (8452) 26 12 09 • The exhibition “Two Faces of Time. The Art • Museum-Estate of Viktor E. Borisov-Musatov [email protected] of 1930–1950” from the collection of The • House-Museum of Pavel V. Kuznetsov Executive secretary Elena Saveleva State Tretyakov Gallery, The Russian Mu- In Saratov Region: +7 (8452) 26 03 24 seum and Saratov Radishchev Museum. • The Art Gallery in Balakovo [email protected] Saratov Radishchev Museum, 2009 • Art and Memorial Museum of Kuzma S. Petrov-Vodkin International contacts Ludmila Kalinina In Khvalynsk: +7 (8452) 28 32 71 ICOM Committees AVICOM, CIMAM, INTER- • Art Gallery of A. A. Mylnikov in Engels [email protected] COM

246 ICOM 247 ICOM Volga river region Volga river region Samara Regional Space Museum Studies Museum in Shorshely village zoology, botany), historical collections and Collection: 2961 – main collection, 2529 – ethnography, domestic, numismatic, rare auxiliary collection books of 18th – 19th cc., documents 19th – 20th cc., weapons and firearms of Russia and the Main sections of collection: documents, items West and East (14th – 20th cc.) of history and technology; cosmic clothing; space numismatics and faleristics Highlights: • ethnographic collection Highlights: • archaeological collection • Landing spacecraft “Vostok” • collection of butterflies • “ZIS-110” car • cosmic clothing Main research areas: • personal belongings of astronauts – • scientific expeditions fellow countrymen of A. G. Nikolaev and • regional and international conferences N. M. Budarin ne of the oldest museums of the Volga Region. It originates from the public Last years’ main projects: Last years’ main projects: Omuseum named after Emperor Alexander III • “Home of the steppes”, in conjunction • “S. P. Korolev – 100 years” that was established in 1886 on the initiative with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, • “Space era” (to the 50th anniversary of of the head of the town P. V. Alabin. In 1993 the 2006–2007 launching of the 1st AES) museum was renamed in honor of P. V. Alabin • “World on our Hands” for the blind and • Spaceships “Soyuz” visually impaired persons • “50 years of the piloted cosmonautics” Collection: over 180 000 • “Tangled threads” art of artists with mental • “The astronauts of the Chuvash Land” illness ituated in the building, constructed spe- Main sections of collection: archaeology, cially for museum purposes in 2001 ICOM Committee CIMUSET natural science (paleontology, mineralogy, ICOM Committee ICEE S

The State Cultural Institution “Samara Museum for Historical and Regional Studies named after P. V. Alabin” Budgetary institution of the Chuvash Republic “The 443041, Samara region, Samara, Leninskaya str., 142 Memorial Complex of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut Branches: A. G. Nikolaev” of the Chuvash Ministry of Culture • House Museum, M. Frunze 429584, Chuvash Republic, Mariinsko-Posadsky region, • House-museum of Lenin Shorshely village, Parkovaya Str., 14 • Mansion Curlin [email protected] www.alabin.ru www.kosmos-memorial.narod.ru Director Ludmila Kuznetsova Director Alexander Tukmakov +7 (846) 333 70 15 +7 (917) 651 01 96 [email protected] International contacts Alexander Petrov Executive secretary Dmitry Stashenkov +7 (846) 333 25 19

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Sviyajsk museum October 2009 – date of creation of the State Budget cultural institutions of the 20Republic of Tatarstan «“State Historical and Architectural Museum “Island-Sviyajhsk”» on the island of the same name located in the picturesque outfall of Sviyaga-river on a high hill-island, in 30 km from Kazan

Sviyajsk was founded as a fortress in 1551, in 1552 became the base of the Russian troops at the siege of Kazan. For the first time in the history of world architecture in 4 weeks period, new city was built out of prefabricated parts. His building, made with the latest technology, exceeded the size of such cities as Novgorod and Pskov. The city, founded in 1551 King John IV the Terrible, was the first Orthodox town in the Middle Volga region

Museum is located in the unique historic, architectural and artistic complex of the second half of 16th – 20th c., located in State budget cultural organization of Tatarstan St. John the Baptist Monastery, founded in Republic «The State historical, architectural the late 16th c. The monastery was closed and art museum “Island-city Sviyajsk”» in the 1920-s. In 1987 a branch of the State 420250, Tatarstan republic, Kazan, Sviyajsk island Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of +7 (84371) 38 939, +7 906 321 07 24 Tatarstan was opened in Sviyajhsk www.sviyajsk.ru Director Artem Silkin ICOM Committee ICR, DEMHIST, COMCOL

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executive committee announced the es- Tarhany. M. Y. Lermontov tate as a National reserve. July 30, 1939 the house-museum of Lermontov was opened

Museum-reserve Includes: the manor with a complex of memorials beginning of the 19th c., the necropolis of Arseniev family and Lermontov family and estate Apaliha where Lermontov was a frequent visitor in the home of his aunt, M. Shan-Girey

Total area: 196,4 hectares

Collection: 16 202 items • research, design and creation of exhibits (ensemble, landscape, theme), exhibitions Main sections of the collection: paintings, • research in the field of museum communi- drawings, books, works of applied and deco- cation, cultural and educational activities rative arts, everyday life and ethnography • development of the scientific concept of objects the museum and in some areas of museum activity Highlights: • items of everyday life of estate’s landlord Last years’ main projects: of the 18th – 19th cc.: furniture, glassware, • “I am in the world eternal wanderer...” paintings, decorative arts, sculpture and a Paintings, drawings, books, and written n the second half of 19th c. Tarkhany were provincial gazette”. In October 1918 Tarkha- wonderful collection of books by Russian sources, arts and crafts materials 19th – spontaneously perceived as a national cul- ny were declared property of the Soviet state and foreign authors, who formed a circle 20th cc. Itural heritage. The grave of the poet was a as a cultural monument, and the owner of of interests of M. Lermontov • “Kept and multiply...” Arts and crafts ma- place of pilgrimage for his admirers. The idea the manor was the village council. However, • objects that belonged to the poet: a pic- terial. New items in stock collection of the of the museum was voiced in 1905 in “Penza only in 1934, the Presidium of the Mid-Volga ture of Lermontov’s “Caucasian appear- Museum “Tarkhany” ance near the village of Zion”, his paint- • “One century has passed, and people The State budget cultural organization ings, porcelain inkwell, bronze seal, hiking have passed...” Russian lithograph of the «Lermontovskiy Museum-reserve “Tarhany”» casket, cigarette case, the tube, and the 19th c. 442280, Penza region, Belinsky district, family icon of Stolypins, ceremonial hand- • “M. Lermontov in the fine arts”. Graphics Lermontovo village kerchiefs, mother and grandmother, etc 19th – 20th cc. Branches: • “Pictures of Russian life. D. Atkinson”. • Shan-Girey’s estate “Apalikha” Main research areas: Engravings. 19th c. 1804–1807 www.tarhany.ru • the study and an introduction to the scien- • “Pictures of Russian life, the first half of the tific and general cultural usage of materi- 19th c.”. The books, written sources, arts Director Tamara Melnikova als about the life and work of M. Lermon- and crafts material +7 (841) 532 07 99 tov, cultural life of the late 18th – 19th cen- • “In the fashion and spirit of the century...” [email protected] turies, which formed the views and outlook Fashion of the 19th c. Graphics arts and Executive secretary Julia Sablina of Lermontov crafts material +7 (841) 533 56 00 • research in the field of acquisition and • “The souls of his idols...” Graphics, and [email protected] storage of funds books. 18th – 19th cc. International contacts Nadezda Potapova • research in the field of conservation and +7 (841) 533 54 71 restoration of architectural monuments ICOM Committee ICLM muslerm@sura.ru

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• Kandinsky V. V. Improvisation. 1913 Tatarstan Republic • Feshin I. I. Portrait of V. Adoratskaya. 1914

Main research areas: Fine Arts Museum • museum collections • works by artists of Tatarstan

Last years’ main projects: • Complex of exhibitions dedicated to the 125th anniversary of Tukai (“125 illustrations G. Tukay”, “Tukai Gardens,” “Reading Tu- kai” paintings, graphics), organized jointly with the support of scientific and cultural programs in the name of S. Mardzhani, Ta- of Kazan A. G. Sandetsky. The building is a tar cultural autonomy, St. Petersburg. Ka- part of the manor complex, consisting of the zan, St. Petersburg, Moscow, 2011 main house, outbuildings, fences and a park. • First International Biennale of Kazan print- National Gallery of Art “Khazine”, a branch of making, 2011 the Museum, opened in 2005. It’s located in • N. Feshin. From Kazan to Taos. (painting, the territory of the State Historical and Archi- drawing, sculpture, applied art from the tectural Museum-Reserve “Kazan Kremlin” in collection of museums, art galleries and the right side of the former Junker School, it is private collections in Russia and the U. S.), an architectural monument of 19th c. 2011–2012 • Participation in the exhibition project “Ex- Collection: more than 26 000 items pressionism. Berlin – Munich 1905–1920 “Blue Rider” against the “Bridge”, (Paris), Main sections of collection: collection of Rus- 2011 sian art, the collection of West European art reated in 1958 based on the collection of lic municipal museum of Kazan. Since 1967, 14th – 17th cc., collection of paintings of Kazan ICOM Committee CIMAM the art department of the State Museum the museum is located in the building (1904– and Tatarstan of the 19th – 21st cc., collection Cof Tatarstan, formed in 1895 as the first pub- 1907) for the commander of the military district of sculpture, collection of Decorative and Applied Arts State Museum of fine arts of the Republic of Tatarstan Highlights: 64, K. Marx Str., Kazan, Republic of the Tatarstan • The complex iconography of Trinity Church Branches: and the Cathedral of the Assumption, • National art gallery “Khazine” Sviyazhsk the 16th c. [email protected] • Levitsky D. G. Portrait of the merchant www.izo-museum.ru A. I. Borisov. 1788 Director Rozalia Nurgaleeva • Tropinin V. A. Portrait of E. Karzinkina. 1838 +7 (843) 236 69 21 • Repin I. E. Reading girl. 1870 [email protected] • Shishkin I. I. Glade. 1897 Executive secretary Natalya Gerasimova • Larionov M. F. Provincial fashionable +7 (843) 236 18 65 woman. 1907 [email protected] • Goncharova N. S. Shabat. 1909–1910 (?)

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Highlights: • creation and implementation of museum Yelabuga Museum-reserve • Porcelain collection: double tea sets educational programs of Gardner and A. Popov factories, • popularization of a historical and cultural M. F. Zhadin factory, the slop basin of heritage in Yelabuga and Yelabuga district L. G. Hrapunov factory • the development of all types of tourism • Archaeological collection: silver tempo- • the development of folk arts and crafts, ral ring with the balanoid bead decorated and the increase in production with triangular corbels from beads, 11th – • administrative and economic and financial 12th cc.; bronze “kopoushka” (a tool for activities cleaning the ears of the sulfur in the form of miniature spoon), 12th c.; well conserved Last years’ main projects: cup-shaped single-handed vessel of the • Exhibition of works by artists – participants type 13th c. “Dzhuketau”, 11th – 13th cc. of the I All-Russian modern art sympo- A handle of a bronze knife with the image of sium, dedicated to the 1000th anniversary a wolf head (6th – 5th centuries AD), executed of Yelabuga, 2007 it in the so-called «animal style». Ornaments • Exhibition of Yelabuga’s artists’ works from nonferrous metals mainly 12th – 14th cc. “Yelabuga – the last city in M. Tsvetaeva’s • Memorial items. Household goods 7 mer- fate”, 2008 chant families Yelabuga: icon, “The Great. • Exhibition: “Hussar Ballad. Nadezhda Du- Barbara and Pres. Gregory” and an at- rova – participant of the Friedland Battle”, tached table of the house Stakheev, a 2008 Viennese chair and sugar bowl, sent by the • Exhibition of works of the Spasskaya Fair descendants of the merchant Ledentsov participants, 2008–2009 reated on the basis of the Decision of Total area: 6,4433 hectares N., and a table for needlework from “the • Exhibition of copies and reproductions of Ministerial council of the RSFSR # 269 of goldsmith Vladimir Kozlov’s” house I. Shishkin’s works “I bless you, forests, CAugust 30th, 1989. There are 25 buildings of Collections: 46 279 • Rare exemplar of the I. V. Shishkin’s book valleys, rivers ...”, 2009 the 19th c. and beginning of the 20th c. and “History of Yelabuga” (1871) • Exhibition of works by participants of the 14 ground areas in an operational adminis- Main sections of collection: archaeology, • I. V. Shishkin’s portrait by Vladimir Veresh- IV All-Russian modern art symposium, tration and gratuitous using of Yelabuga state precious metals, numismatics, ethnography, chagin “Sketches from the Spasskaya Fair”, 2009 museum-reserve weapon, graphic materials, written (documen- • Sword of Marshal Leonid Aleksandrovich • All-Russian children’s art festival exhibi- tary) sources, bells, church plate, porcelain Govorov, Hero of the Soviet Union tion “Marvellous Yelabuga”, which was held by the All-Russian Association of in- Main research areas: ternational and cultural relations with the The State budgetary institution of culture “Yelabuga • studying and popularization the Shish- support and participation of the Ministry State Museum Preservation of History, Architecture kins’, N. A. Durova’s, V. M. Bekhterev’s of Culture of the Tatarstan Republic, the and Arts” genealogy Council of the Municipal District of Yelabu- Tatarstan republic, Yelabuga, Gassara str., 9 • life and activity M. I. Tsvetaeva and her ga and Yelabuga State Museum Preserva- [email protected] family tion, 2007 www.elabuga.com • research on local history in Yelabuga • A joint exhibition of the Cultural center Director Gulzada Rudenko region “Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva” (Moscow) +7 (85557) 7 86 00 and Yelabuga State “The War. Evacuation Executive secretary Ilsijar Shlykova Priority activities: of the writers’ families. Moscow. Chistopol. +7 (85557) 7 53 24 • research, preservation, restoration, and Yelabuga. Tashkent”, 2010 International contacts Oksana Esipova comprehensive use of movable and +7 (85557) 7 86 68 immovable cultural heritage of Yelabuga ICOM Committee INTERCOM

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Include Southern Russia and Northern Caucasus regions. Territory lies mostly on the Pontic- Caspian steppe. This region has got the most fertile soil and it is called “the breadbasket of Memorial Museum Russia” Highlights: • memorial fund of the artist and academic Two objects from the UNESCO World Heritage List located within the borders of the region painter A. A. Kiselyov • “Kadoshskie rock” by A. A. Kiselyov which Consists of 13 federal subjects was on the display at the 30th Itinerary exhibition Population over 23 500 000 Main research areas: Total area 589 200 km2 • heritage of the professor, an academician of painting, A. A. Kiselyov in Tuapse • creative legacy of A. A. Kiselyov in museums in Russia and CIS countries

pened in 1988 as a branch of a his- Last years’ main projects: tory museum in Tuapse. In 1997 the • “House-Museum of A. A. Kiselyov” book OHouse-Museum of A. A. Kiselyov became the was published in 2008 Municipal cultural institution of Tuapse. One • Terrace of the memorial house was recon- storey building with total area of 110 sq.m. structed by the archive materials in 2010 (1902) built by a professor, an academi- • One of the memorial house’s room reno- cian of painting A. A. Kiselyov (1838–1911), vation – based on the archive materials, whose life was closely linked to Tuapse 2011. Nowadays the room is used as a storage space for the museum’s fund Collection: 4375 items, incl. 20 paintings and • On the 15th of June 2011 in the park of sketches of the artist platens alley was erected a monument of A. A. Kiselyov by the means of Board of Main sections of collection: paintings, graphics, Trustees of the city of Tuapse applied art, life and ethnography, numismatics, rare books, documents, items of print ICOM Committees DEMHIST, IC MEMO

Municipal body of culture Museum A. A. Kiselyov 352800, Krasnodar Region, Tuapse, Karl Marx str., 54 [email protected] www.dom-kiseleva.ru Director Ekaterina Kozlova +7 (86167) 21 841 Executive secretary Vladislav Matorkin +7 952 863 22 19

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Highlights: (Rokotov, Levitsky, Brullov, Venetsianov, • Orthodox icon of 16th – 18th cc. Schedrin, Kuindzy, Levitan, Savrasov, • Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut Shishkin, Nesterov, Malevich, Kandinsky, • paintings and drawings of Russian artistic Rerikh, Korovin), foreign Art of 17th – 20th cc. avant-garde early 20th c. (Giovanni Piranesi), graphics, applied arts • Art Kuban early 20th c. and sculpture • F. Shteynfeld. Album of memories of Switzerland Highlights of the collection: • collection of P. Dogadin Last years’ main projects: • works by I. Repin, K. Malevich, A. Rod- • “The Hermitage – South of Russia”, Kras- chenko nodar, 2005 he oldest art museum of the Northern • “Russian realistic painting of the second Last years’ main projects: Caucasus region. It was open in 1914 half of the nineteenth century”, China, he first Astrakhan art museum based by • The project “Masterpieces of the capital of Tafter its founder Fyedor Kovalenko, who 2006 P. M. Dogadin who has donated his col- the Caspian”, 2008 donated his private collection to the city Tlection of paintings to his native town in 1918. • “Alexander Rodchenko, Popova: defining Since 1924 the Gallery is situated in three- constructivism” United Kingdom (London), Located in the two historical buildings, one storied building, the former Plotnikov’s Town Greece (Fessalonniki), Spain (Madrid), of whish was reconstructed (2001–2004) for Estate (architectural monument of 19th – 20th cc.) 2009–2010 museum purposes • “A. Exter. Retrospective” in conjunction Collection: over 20 000 with the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Collection: over 12 000 2010 Main sections of collection: icons of 16th – Main sections of collection: Russian art (icons 20th cc., Russian painting of 18th – 20th cc. ICOM Committee DEMHIST of 15th – 18th cc. belonging to different art schools), Russian and Soviet art of 18th – 20th cc., art of Weastern Europe, Asia and • “White Gold. Classical and Modern Africa. sculpture collection, porcelain, water- Chinese porcelain”, Krasnodar, 2007 The P. M. Dogadin Astrakhan State Art Gallery colors, paintings, drawings, decorative arts, 414000, Astrakhan region, Astrakhan, Sverdlova str., 81 numismatics, documents, rare books ICFA ICOM Committee Branches: • Museum of Velimir Khlebnikov • Museum B. M. Kustodiev Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after • Museum and Cultural Center “The house F. A. Kovalenko of the merchant, G. V. Tetyushinova” 350063, Krasnodar area, Krasnodar, Krasnaja str., 13 [email protected] [email protected] http://agkg.narod.ru www.kxmuseum.ru Director Rafail Makhmutov Director Vyacheslav Sarkisov +7 (84347) 30 456 +7 (861) 268 58 35 Executive secretary Gulnara Biryukova Executive secretary Tatiana Salnikova +7 (84347) 39 414 +7 (861) 268 09 00 International contacts Liliya Safina

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Highlights: Chechen Republic • medieval battle armor of the Chechen warriors with a mask – object of extreme rarity • works by Tropinin V. A., Zakharov P. Z. , National Museum Kuindzhi A., Roubaud F. A., Aivazovsky, Bakalovicha S. etc.

Main research areas: • traditional women’s and men’s clothing • interior residential towers • Chechens crafts and handicrafts • Chechen weapons and ornaments • Archaeological investigations in Chechnya • Chechnya in the years of World War II • Chechen regiment “Wild Division” during World War II • Personal Exhibition of People’s Artist of • activity of A. K. Kadyrov Russia Iles Tataev in the Tretyakov Gallery, • education, science and culture of the CR Moscow, 2005 • Chechen educators, merchants and • Works by Chechen Republic artists in businessmen Pyatigorsk State Museum-Preserve. Ler- • history of the CR National Museum montov, 2007 • fine arts of the CR • Works by calligraphers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, “The Holy Quran in the Last years’ main projects: mirror of Iranian art,” Grozny, Chechen Na- • Works by Chechen Republic artists during tional Museum, 2007 “Days of Culture of the Chechen republic in Moscow,” Moscow, 2005 ICOM Committee CAMOC

reated in 1924 as the Grozny District Muse- Main sections of collection: archeology, um. Museum and its branches are situated numismatics, ethnography, social and cultural Con the ground floors of residential brick houses life, written sources, natural history, movies, audio, pictorial sources Collection: 30 000 items

Official institution of culture “National Museum • Mahketinsky museum of the Chechen Republic” • Iles Tataev gallery 364903, Chechen Republic, Grozny, Vladimir Putin www.muzeychr.ru Avenue, 19/65 [email protected] Branches: General director Vaha Adizovich Astalov • Literary-Ethnographic museum L. N. Tolstoy +7 (928) 736 75 24 • Literary Museum Lermontov Executive secretary Salamu Saidovich Albekhadzhiev • Literary-memorial museum of Mamakayev +7 (8712) 29 50 24 • Literary-memorial museum of Aidamirov International contacts Aruzha Magomedovna Gelagaeva

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Main museum buildings: • natural landscape of the Museum-Reserve M. A. Sholokhov • the Memorial House in Kruzhilin Village, where M. A. Sholokhov was born and lived Last years’ main projects: with his parents till 1910 • “Cossacks of Russia are the Sentries of Museum-Reserve • A Cossack Homestead of the 19th – 20th cc. the Country” – a joint project of the follow- • the House-Museum in stanitsa Karghins- ing museums: the Russian Ethnographic kaya, where the author wrote most of his Museum from Saint Petersburg, the No- “Don Stories” vocherkassk Museum of the Don Cossack • The Parochial School in stanitsa Karghin- History, the Rostov Regional Museum of skaya, where M. A. Sholokhov studied in Area Study and the National Sholokhov 1912–1914 Museum-Reserve, 2011 • The Mill Complex in stanitsa Karghinskaya • Project “The Place of the Genius (Lieu du • the House in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, Gènie)”, exhibited in the State A. S. Push- where the writer lived in the 30-s and kin Museum in Moscow, was created by the worked over the third book of the novel National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve, the “And Quiet Flows the Don” and “Virgin Soil State Museum of L. N. Tolstoy in Moscow, Upturned” the museum-reserves of L. N. Tolstoy “Yas- • the Memorial Estate, where M. A. Sholok- naya Polyana”, of A. S. Pushkin “Mikhailovs- hov and his family lived from 1949 till 1984, koye”, of I. S. Turghenev “Spasskoye-Luto- where he wrote the second book of the vinovo”, of M. Y. Lermontov “Tarkhany”, of novel “Virgin Soil Upturned”, the story “The the Museum of Flaubert and the Medicine Fate of a Man” and chapters of the novel History at the University Union of the Ruen stablished on July, 11, 1984 in order the old pre-war house with an attic storey the “They Fought for Their Country” Hospitals, of the House of George Sand to immortalize the memory of the great family used to live in from 1935 to 1941. In • the Historical-Literary Exposition in the in Nohant, the International Jules Verne ERussian writer, academician, the twice 1987 after the writer’s death the house was building of the former Cossack school Center in Amiens, of the Museum of Artur Hero of Socialist Labour, the laureate of the presented to the state by Mikhail Alexandrov- • the Excursion-Exhibition Center “The Peo- Rimbaud (Charlesville-Mézières), of the Nobel, State and Lenin prizes, the Deputy of ich’s wife, Mariya Petrovna, and their children ple’s House” House of Elza Triolet and Aragon (Saint- the USSR Supreme Soviet of all convocations Svetlana, Alexander, Mikhail and Mariya. • the Stable Arnou-en-Yvelines). The exposition was And on the 19th of February, 1994 at the 10th devoted to the great writers of the Russian Situated in two-storied house with a terrace anniversary of Sholokhov’s death the house- Collection: over 70 000 items and French literature: Alexander Pushkin, and a balcony was built in 1949 in place of museum opened its doors to visitors Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turghenev, Leo Main sections of the collection: documents, Tolstoy, Mikhail Sholokhov, George Sand, National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve book, photo-film-audio documents, memorials, Gustav Flaubert, Jules Verne, Arthur Rim- 346270, Rostov Region, fine arts (paintings, drawings, sculptures cre- baud, Luis Aragon, Elza Triolet, 2010 Veshenskaya, 60, Sholokhov str. ated after the works and on the motives of the • Exhibition project “The Don, Sholokhov, +7 (86353) 21 062 works by M. A. Sholokhov) Russia”, showing the writer’s life and work www.sholokhov.ru inseparably connected with the history Director Alexander Sholokhov Highlights: and people of the country, is displayed +7 (86353) 21 377 • manuscripts of M. A. Sholokhov works at Russian museums: The State Memorial [email protected] • letters, writer’s personal belongings and Natural Reserve «Museum-Estate of Executive secretary Lora Akolzina L. N. Tolstoy “Yasnaya Polyana”», 2011. +7 (86353) 24 514 Main research areas: The Taganrog State Literature And Historic- [email protected] • complex study in the life and work of Architectural Museum-Reserve (in process) International contacts Yriy Demin M. A. Sholokhov +7 (86353) 21 852 • Cossack history and culture ICOM Committees ICME, IC MEMO, ICLM

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Tsaritsyn named after Stalin in the Museum of Stalingrad Battle defense of Stalingrad-Tsaritsyn named after Stalin and the restoration of the ruined buildings of the museum”. In 1962 the museum was renamed in “Volgograd State Museum of defense”, and on May 31, 1982 – transformed in the Volgograd State panoramic museum “Stalingrad Battle”

Collection: about 200 000

Main sections of collection: visual sources, numismatics, gifts, items, documentary sources, weapons and military equipment

Highlights: • personal documents and belongings • exhibition activity development of Red Army commanders: G. Zhukov, A. Vasilevsky, K. Rokossovsky, A. Eremen- Last years’ main projects: ko, V. Chuikov • “Symbols of Victory”. Together with the • personal complexes of participants of Central Museum of Armed Forces, 2008 the Civil War in Southern Russia: A. Sne- • “Victory Parade”. Together with the Central sarev, K. Voroshilov, S. Budyonny, gen- Museum of Armed Forces and the State erals L. Kornilov, P. Krasnov, A. Denikin, Historical Museum, 2009 P. Wrangell • “The Lord will grant us victory”. Together • collection of gifts from 65 countries around with the Saratov Museum of Military Glory, n the 1936 decision of the Bureau of Stalin- quarters of the Defense Council Tsaritsyn the world handed to the city as a symbol of 2010 grad Regional Committee of the VKP (b) it was Workers’, Peasants’ and Cossacks’ Deputies gratitude and respect for world opinion to • “Gifts Supreme Commander I. V. Stalin Idecided to establish a museum of Defense of the defenders of Stalingrad and the victory and the city-hero”. Together with the State Tsaritsyn named after Stalin dedicated to the In January 1943, because of the Great Stal- won in the Battle of Stalingrad Central Museum of Contemporary Russian city defense during the Civil War. Opened for ingrad Battle of World War II, Regional Com- History, 2010 the public on January 3, 1937 in the building, mittee of the VKP(b) adopted a resolution “On Main research areas: where during the Civil War was the head- Reorganization of the Museum of defense • Stalingrad battle history ICOM Committee ICOMAM

Federal State Budget Cultural Institution «The State • Memorial complex “Heroes of the Battle Historical-memorial Museum-preserve of Stalingrad” at Mamaev Hill “The Battle of Stalingrad”» • Memorial and Historical Museum 400005, Volgograd Region, Volgograd, Marshal • A monument to Lenin in the Krasnoarmeysk district Chuykov str., 47 of Volgograd [email protected] Main museum buildings: www.stalingrad-battle.ru • Memorial and architectural complex of museum- panorama “The Battle of Stalingrad” Director Alexey Vasin • Historical Park – the ruins of the mill named after +7 (8442) 23 72 72 Grudinin International contacts Nikolay Musienko +7 (8442) 23 86 84

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ounded in April, 20, 1960 and opened gifts of foreign artists from Volgograd sister Volgograd Fine to the public in June, 22, 1963. The cities from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Ffirst works of the museum collection were Germany, Finland and others – 94 paintings, donated by the State Historical Museum, the graphics printed and original) Arts Museum State Hermitage, the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Saratov Museum, Highlights: Pavlovsk Museum • fine art paintings and graphic works by I. I. Mashkov (1881–1944) Situated in the premises of the six-storey • archive of I. I. Mashkov of 1920–1930, brick high-rise building (1956) protected by objects from the artist’s studio the state as an architectural monument of • national 20th c. art “Stalinist classicism”. Total area – 1268 m2 Main research areas: Gallery is situated in the premises of the brick • artistic career, literary creations and social high-rise building (1994). Total area – 1295 m2 works of I. I. Mashkov • art of the Soviet period Collection: 8563 items • art of the Second World War

Main sections of collection: national art of the Last years’ main projects: 17th – 20th cc. (painting, sculpture, graphics), • “Ilya Mashkov. Russia’s Golden Map” (The national art of the 20th c. (painting, sculpture, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2005) graphics, applied and decorative art, inter- • “The Soviet idealism” (Belgium, 2005) national art paintings of the 17th – 20th cc., • “Mashkov – Zagrekov. Teacher and Disci- sculpture, graphics, applied and decorative ple” (Russia – Germany, 2011, Volgograd art. International art collection includes vari- Municipal Institute of Fine Arts named after ous sections: plaster casts of ancient sculp- P. A. Serebriakov) tures, individual applied art; oriental china of the 17th – 20th cc. A special section includes ICOM Committees CECA, ICEE, ICOM-CC

State government cultural institution of Volgograd region “Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts n.a. I. I. Mashkov” 400131, Volgograd Region, Volgograd, Lenin avenue, 21 Branch: • Gallery of State government cultural institution of Volgograd region “Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts n.a. I. I. Mashkov” [email protected] www.volgogradmuseum.ru Director Elena Orlova +7 (8442) 38 65 31 [email protected]

268 ICOM Urals Urals URALS Gubkin museum Border between Europe and Asia. Industrial heart of Russia of North settlement Consist of 6 federal subjects Highlights: stablished in 1995 • Archaeological objects of the Neolithic, Population over 12 000 000 E Bronze and Iron Age Main sections of collection: collection of Total area 1 788 900 km2 objects, documents and photos on the history Main research areas: of the formation of oil and gas complex of the • historical and ethnographic study of tradi- Time zone YEKST (UTC+06:00) Tyumen Circumpolar region, construction and tional culture of indigenous minority peo- development of the city of Gubkin, archaeolo- ple of Yamal – Forest Nenets gy, ethnography, fine arts, traditional Russian • historical and regional studies of Gubkin, dolls, numismatics collection, minerals Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and other regions of Russia and neighboring countries • study of the archaeological heritage • study of Russian folk traditions and customs • research in Ecology and Conservation

Last years’ main projects: • Anime and video game “Taiko-traveler” of the culture of the indigenous inhabitants of the North–Forest Nenets • Computer game “How to extract oil and gas” • Game-trip “Freaky Journey” on display “Neighbours. Forest Nenets” • Game-trip “1,2,3,4,5 – a city I’m going to look!” On display “North – my destiny”

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The Municipal budget cultural organization “Gubkinski museum of the settlement of the North” 680000, Yamalo-Nenetski autonomous district, Gubkin, 12 district, 38 [email protected] Director Elena Kalitenko +7 (34936) 3 26 29

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until 1922. From its very beginning Tumen Collection: 360 000 items Museum Complex named Museum was conceived as a many-faceted museum of regional studies and sciences Main sections of the collection: philately, it’s grew to become one of the largest mu- postcards, pottery, glass, bone, toys, printing after Ivan Slovtsov seums in Russia. In the late 19th c. its col- (poster), applied graphics, icons, weapons, lections were comparable to those in major faleristics, numismatics, bonistics, metal, ap- European museums. One of the oldest in pliances, sculpture, painting, graphics, docu- Syberia ments, precious metals, fabrics, rare books

Museum Depository is located in the Church Main research areas: study of the collections. of the Savior, one of the most beautiful churches in Tyumen built in 1819 in the style Last years’ main projects: of Russian baroque • Annual scientific conferences devoted to regional studies “Slovtsov readings” which New modern building of the Museum com- attract all leading scientists of the west plex is planned to be opened soon (total Siberia, museum curators, specialists in area of 6000 m2) with exhibitions of local his- local lore, teachers, and students. Since tory collections, the updated Russian and 1989 West European painting of 17th – beginning of 20th cc. ICOM Committee ICFA

rganized in 1879 by Ivan Slovtsov – a Omsk and Tyumen museums. Ivan Slovtsov passionate collector. His collection of and Nikolai Chukmuldin collections were OSiberian antiquities made up the basis of exhibited in the building of a modern school

State Autonomic Cultural Institution of Tyumen region “Museum Complex named after Ivan Slovtsov” 625000, Tyumen region, Tyumen, Sovetskaya str., 63 Branches: • Museum “The House Masharova” (late 19th – early 20th cc.) • Museum “City Council” (1830-s) • Archaeological Museum on Lake Andreevskoe • Museum-Estate Kolokol’nikova – the only surviving classical Tyumen merchant estate Director Pavel Golovin +7 (3452) 45 35 65 [email protected]

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industrial institute – Tyumen state oil and gas nomic development of the Tyumen region Museum of science history university – the first oil higher educational in 17th – 21st cc. institution in Siberia; documentary and me- • History of Tyumen Industrial Institute – Tyu- and Trans-Ural machinery morial items men State Oil and Gas University Highlights: Last years’ main projects: • manual print typographic machine of • “G. V. Steller” to the 300th anniversary of G. Sigl, Berlin and Wien Company, dated the German scientist, participant of the 1870 Second Kamchatka expedition (1733– • rail of Nizhnesaldinsk factory, 1875 1743), adjunct of the Saint Petersburg • wood perforate tube made from 370-year Academy of Sciences G. V. Steller (1709 – larch as the first model of Trans-Urals Tyu- 1746), who found his last refuge in the city men water supply system, 1864 of Tyumen, 2008 • antique weighing scales with master’s • “D. I. Mendeleyev – the main of genius and name engraving dated 1846, 1847, 1870 a Russian citizen” to the 175th anniversary stand out of the great Siberian scientist, 2009 • 8 unique engines, transferred to the muse- • “To the 100th anniversary of the first Pro- um from the Tyumen motor factory in 2010: fessor in Tyumen Indistrial Institute Ivan for the rockets of the “Moskit”, S-300, “Me- Viktorovich Lebedyev (3.12.1909 – teorit” types, for the “Krug” air-defense 16.07.2009)”, 2009 missile system • “M. V. Lomonosov and Siberia” to the • memorial collections of D. I. Mendeleyev 300th anniversary of the Russian scientist- encyclopaedist, 2011 Main research areas: • “History of aviation, astronautics, motor • Human in the history of science and engi- and rocket engineering”, 2010–2011 neering of post-Urals in 19th – 21st cc. • Scientific, industrial, cultural, social-eco- ICOM Committee ICR

ounded in 1965. Situated in the main Main sections of collection: geological-miner- building of the University alogical, natural history, collections of items F of machine history of 17th – 20th cc. indus- Collection: 43 782 try, foundation and development of Tyumen

Museum of science history and Trans-Urals machinery of Tyumen state oil and gas university 625000, Tyumen, Volodarskogo str., 38 [email protected] [email protected] www.tsogu.ru Director Victor Kopylov +7 (3452) 25 69 57, [email protected] International contacts Danija Islamova +7 (3452) 25 69 57 [email protected]

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ounded in 1871 by members of the of Fund of Boris Yeltsin); the exhibition Museum Ural Society of Natural history amateurs “Ural excursion of Baron de Bay” (jointly F(UOLE), initiated the formation of the major with the Alliance Française and Musée Na- collections. Invaluable contribution to the tional d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris); a fede- of Sverdlovsk region acquisition of the museum in the last quarter of ral exposition project “Zurab Tsereteli in 19th c. was made by a Siberian-Ural Scientific Yekaterinburg” and Industrial Exhibition (1887), most of the • Exhibition “Fashion in the imperial Saint exhibits have been transferred to the museum Petersburg. A city female costume of the end of the 19th – beginning of 20th cc.” from Main complex situated in former House of a private collection of N. A. Kostriginaya Poklevsky-Kozell family (1870) and former (Saint Petersburg) building of City Council (1872) • Itinerary exposition organized jointly with GTSMSIR (Museum of Russian contem- Collection: 486 102 items of the main fund, porary history) “Petr Stolypin. Life for the 219 975 – of scientific and support funds Homeland”

Main sections of collection: fine arts, stock of ICOM Committees ICFA, CAMOC, ICDAD rare books, textile, archaeology, metal

Highlights: • Big Shigirsky Idol (the oldest wooden sculpture, 9.5 thousand years old) • personal library of Tatishchev • skeletons of a mammoth and a gigantic deer (second by size, found in the Europe) • collection of Nev’yansky icons • collection of copper cook ware 18th c.

State budgetary cultural institution of Sverdlovsk region Main research areas: «Regional Museum of Sverdlovsk Region» • nature, history, ethnography and archeol- 620014, Ekaterinburg, Malyshevstr str., 46 ogy of the Urals [email protected] • the history of science and technology of www.uole-museum.ru the Urals Branches: • In the cities: Alapayevsk, Artie, Asbest, Berezovsky, Last years’ main projects: • Opening of the permanent exposition on Polevskoy, Pyshma, Sysert, Turinsk the history of the Urals 16th – first half of the • In Ekaterinburg: Museum exhibition center 19th cc. “Light of the Uralicons” «Poklevskies mansion», Museum of Nature of Urals, • “Secrets of the armored rooms” exposi- Museum of history and archaeology of the Middle tion from the museum’s stock to the 140th Urals, History of radio engineering and planetarium anniversary of the museum Director Natalia Vetrova • Federal exposition projects were based +7 (343) 376 47 19 on the museum’s collection: “First Lady Executive secretary Natalia Tolpegina of Russia” (with GTSMSIR), “B. N. Yeltsin: +7 (343) 376 47 84 The Man. An Epoch. Us.”(with the support International contacts Svetlana Korepanova

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plant, a rolling mill, a water conduit and an of History of Techniques – “The Cherepa- Nizhniy Tagil exhibition on the railway transport etc. novs’ House”, 2004 • “Mining and metallurgical techniques of Collection: 439 062 the Middle Urals 18th – 19th cc. Tagil serf Museum-reserve inventors”. Exhibition in the Museum of Main sections of collection: Demidov’s col- History of Techniques – “The Cherepa- lection, art subjects, graphic materials, photo novs’ House”, 2004 and audio sources, metal, pottery, porcelain, • “History of Tray Manufacturing in Nizhny wood, clothes, geology, botany, zoology Tagil”. New exhibition of the Museum of History of Tray Manufacturing – “The Khu- Highlights: doyarovs’ House”, 2009 • a table smelted of the first Russian indus- • “Mammoth is returned”. Museum of Nature trial copper in1715 and Environment, 2010 • an ore pyramid with samples of copper • “Musical box” from the history of recording and iron ores from deposits owned by equipment and devices. Exhibition in the A. Demidov, 1728 Museum of History of Techniques – “The • magnetite ore in a copper frame. Vysok- Cherepanovs’ House”, 2010 ogorsky mine, the first half of 18th c. • “Tagil. Russia. France”. Exhibition of the • G.-H. Groot. Portrait of Akinfiy N. Demidov. Russian-French project, 2010 Canvas, oil, 1741–1745 • “Art metal of the Urals” devoted to the 265th • J.-D. Rashette. Bust of Prokofy Demidov. anniversary of the Ural lacquer craft, 2011 Bronze, 1780–1790 • “Summer Waltz”. Exhibition of works of • Tabernacle. The St. Petersburg Malachite modern masters of the Ural lacquer paint- factory of the Demidovs. 1852 ing on metal, 2011 • The works of the Demidov’s serf artists • promotional items of All-Russian industrial ICOM Committees CAMOC, CIMUSET exhibitions. Second half of 19th c. • wooden sculptures of the of the Gorbu- ounded is 1841 according to P. N. Demi- Located in buildings – monuments of archi- novo archeological site. III millennium BC dov’s order when “Museum of Natural His- tecture of the 18th – 19th (9 buildings) Ftory and Antiquities” was opened. It exhib- Priority project: Eco-industrial park “Old ited the factory owner’s private collection of Includes Eco-industrial technical park “Old Demidov’s plant” in Nizhniy Tagil rarities and promotional samples of the Demi- Demidov’s plant”. Its exposition comprises a dov’s plants production dam, a blastfurnance plant, an open-hearth Priority research areas: • phenomenon of metallurgical culture Municipal State institution of culture “Nizhniy Tagil • Museum-Works of History of Metallurgy • industrial heritage Museum-reserve” Mining and Work Urals” • Museum of History of Techniques • Home life and crafts of the population of 622001, Sverdlovsk region, Nizhniy Tagil, • Memorial and Literary Museum of A. P. Bondin the Urals Lenin Avenue, 1 • Literary and Memorial Museum • Demidov’s collection of D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak Branches: • Museum Education (the principle of con- [email protected] • Nizhniy Tagil Museum of Local History tinuous education) • Museum of Nature and Environment Director Elvira Merkusheva • Museum of Home Life and Crafts of the mining +7 (3435) 41 64 04 Last years’ main projects: population Executive secretary Antonina Bunkova • “The history of the Ural Mining Railroad in th th • Museum of History of Tray Manufacturing +7 (3435) 41 64 01 the 19 – 20 cc.”. Exhibition in the Museum

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• history of the region pened on October 28, 2001 on the day Highlights: paintings by V. Igoshev stablished in 1985 • archeology of the 80th anniversary of the People’s E • natural science OArtist of the USSR V. Igoshev. The museum Main research areas: V. Igoshev heritage Collection: about 7000 items features works by artists also from the collec- ICOM Committee ICR tions of the Gallery Foundation’s Generation ICOM Committee DEMHIST Main sections of collection: paleontology and (Khanty-Mansiysk) and MK GOMPiCh (Khan- geology, flora and fauna of the region, indig- ty-Mansiysk) The USSR People’s artist V. Igoshev House-Museum enous culture, the history of exploration and Shuryshkarsk District Museum of Regional Studies 628012, Tyumen region, Khanty-Mansijsk, development of the region, archeology and 626640, Tyumen region, Muji village, Collection: about 1000 items Lopareva str., 7 paintings Komsomolskaya str., 9 www.ikz.ru/culture/igoshev/index.html Director Anna Brusnitsyna Main sections of collection: painting, draw- Director Svetlana Skorikova Main research areas: +7 (34594) 2 1257 ing, metal, ceramics, sculpture, decorative +7 (34671) 24 000 • cultural studies [email protected] arts, furniture [email protected]

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• Skeleton of Mongochensky mammoth is Yamal-Nenets regional also almost complete. The mammoth’s geological age is 17 thousand years • Mummy of a medieval warrior (1282), dis- museum exhibition complex covered in the burial ground near the village Zeleny Yar

Main research areas: • archeology of the region • ethnography of the indigenous peoples of the North and other peoples, populating the territory of the Yamal-Nenets Autono- mous Area • palaeontological studies including the main part of the Shemanovsky Museum Sci- mammoth fauna study entific Library, including a collection of rare • history of the legendary GULAG rail road books construction sites number 501 and 503 • history of the reclamation of Yamal gas Situated in a new museum building construct- and oil deposits ed in 2002 Last years’ main projects: Collection: 62 130 items • “The Time of Yamal: 8000+80” to the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Yamal- Main sections of the collection: ethnography, Nenets Autonomous Area. 10 exhibition archeology, natural and scientific collection, projects, 2010 historical and folk collection, documentary • “The Russian Silverware...” displayed a archive, rare book, art collection, weapons, unique collection of the Russian art silver numismatics from the depository of the State Hermitage n 1906 (in the village of Obdorsk which is of Orthodox mission, prior Irinarkh (the secu- • International tour “Mammoths and Mast- the former name of Salekhard) “The Deposi- lar name – Ivan Semenovich Shemanovsky). Highlights: odons: Titans of the Ice Age” was launched Itory of Ethnographic Collections of Tobolsk Before that in 1898 he opened a library with • Khanty dress made of nettle cloth and on the initiative of the Field Museum of North Minorities” was founded by the abbot a reading room. Today its collections are the decorated with colour threads embroidery Natural History (Chicago, Illinois, the USA), • Vessel handle shaped like a bear, silver, 2010 The State Budget Institution of theYamal-Nenets casting. Western Siberia and the North • “Gifts to Russian Political Leaders” held as Autonomous Area “The Yamal-Nenets Regional Museum- Ural Region, the end of the 1st millennium a part of the project “Glittering with Steel Exhibition Complex named after I. S. Shemanovsky” • Bowl with the relief depicting the scene of Lustre”. From the depository of the State 629008, The Tyumen Region, the Yamal-Nenets Alexander the Great’s flight on the griffins, Central Museum of Modern Russian His- Autonomous Area, Salekhard city, 38 Chubynina Str. silver, gilding, embossing, engraving. Byz- tory (located in Moscow), 2012 www.mvk-yamal.ru antium, the end of the 12th – the beginning • Culture and education program “The Chil- th General director Sergey Grishin of the 13 c. dren are Going to St. Petersburg” united +7 (34922) 3 05 19 • Anthropomorphous figurine, horn. It was museums of St. Petersburg, the Shem- [email protected] discovered in Ust-Poluy in 2009 anovsky Museum-Exhibition Complex and Executive secretary Galina Lisitsyna • Mummy of the baby mammoth Lyuba. Ac- municipal museums of Yamal, Since 2006 +7 (34922) 4 72 98 cording to radiocarbon dating, Lyuba’s [email protected] geological age is 42 thousand years ICOM Committee CAMOC

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Mineral wealth of Russia. Region of the virgin forests, shamans, lakes, mountains, tigers and Main research areas: volcanoes • The Great Patriotic War. 1941–1945. • The Civil War. 1918–1920. Seven objects from the UNESCO World Heritage List located within the borders of the region • problematic of the 19th and 20th architectural monuments preservation Consists of 21 federal subjects • 19th c. and 1st half of the 20th c. Achinsk’s merchants Population 16 000 000 • political repressions of the 20–40-s of the 20th c. Total area 11 330 000 km2 • local history seen through personal stories and experiences and the Achinsk popula- Time zone OMSST (UTC+07:00), KRAST (UTC+08:00), IRKST (UTC+09:00), YAKST tion (UTC+10:00), VLAST (UTC+11:00), MAGST (UTC+12:00)

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Situated in a monument of architecture, history and culture of the 19th c. consisting of a two buildings estate of a merchant Semen Mokrousov Last years’ main projects: Collection: 22 433 items • “Laboratory of success”. Devoted to the 40th anniversary of starting of extracting Main sections of the collection: documents the alumina by the “AGK” LLC and rare books, numismatics, paintings, • Days of the Japanese culture in Achinsk sculpture, graphics, archeology. accompanied with the exhibition “Tradi- tional Japanese dolls” (Japanese embas- Highlights of the collection: sy in Russia, Moscow) • West European plate armour of an knight • coins of the 18th and 19th cc. ICOM Committees CAMOC • musical instruments from the 19th c. • “Beard coin” of the 18th c. (sign of permis- sion to keep a beard) Municipal budget cultural institution “Achinsk museum • collection of medals pf function from the of regional studies named after D. S. Kargapolov” 19th c. 662150, Krasnoyarsk region, Achinsk, Lenin str., 20 • yandmade and manufactured tapestry of www.achmuseum.ru th th 18 and 19 cc. Director Marina Kachan th th • rare books of the 18 and 19 cc. +7 (39151) 7 38 37 [email protected]

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Highlights: • decorative vase produced on private plant of A. Startsev • full set of military equipment of Itelmen: tape armor, helmet plates of baleen, the spear – the beginning of the 19th century • a full range of burial complex of the he oldest museum of Russian Far East 12 century Jurchen prince Essykuy and East Siberia. Founded in 1884 and • animal figurines, made by inhabitants of Tofficially opened in 1890 as Amurskiy Re- the Bering Sea coast gion Studies Society Museum. The origins of ethnographical and archaeological collec- Main research areas: tions of the Museum was started by known • cultural studies and museology scientists: F. Busse, V. Margaritov, L. Shtern- • history of the Far East berg, M. Yankovskiy, V. Arseniev at the end of 19th c. ICOM Committee AVICOM espite the official opening date of the Far • drawings by A. Benoit, M. Vrubel, V. Serov East Art museum – July, 1931 – a collec- • works by Titian Building is situated in downtown Vladivostok- Dtion of the museum was gathering throughout • etchings by Durer, Rembrandt, Callot city and protected by government as histori- the twentieth century. The idea of creating the cal architectural monument of 19th century. It first in the Far East “public gallery” belongs to Main research areas: was built in 1904 on order famous negotiant the Governor-general of Amur N. I. Grodekov • exhibition activities in the galleries in V. P. Babintsev who was business manager of (1843–1913). With his assistance in 1902– Japan, Canada, the United States “Churin & Co” 1909 the Imperial Academy of Arts has sent • acquisition of funds and scientific descrip- valuable loads – original paintings, drawings, tion of museum objects Collection: 400 000 items sculptures, casts of the samples of Russian and foreign classics to Khabarovsk repeatedly ICOM Committee ICEE The State cultural organization “Arseniev State Museum • Museum of the History of Dalnerechensk (city Dalnerechensk) of Primorsky Region” • Museum of the History of Lesozavodsk (Lesozavodsk) Collection: 12 874 items The State organization of culture “Far Еast Museum 690090, Primorsky region, Vladivostok, • Museum of the History of Partizansk (Partizansk) Main sections of collection: paintings, draw- of Fine Arts” Svetlanskaya str., 20 • Literary-memorial museum of Alexander Fadeev (p. Chuguevka) ings, objects of ethnography, weapons, 680000, Khabarovsk area, Khabarovsk, Branches: [email protected] sculpture Shevchenko str., 7 • Museum-exhibition center (Vladivostok) http://arseniev.org www.dvhm.ru • V. Arseniev memorial house-museum (Vladivostok) Highlights: [email protected] • House-museum of family Sukhanov (Vladivostok) Director Viktor Shalay • works by Ivan Aivazovsky, Shishkin, Repin, Director Valentina Zaporozskaya • Museum of the History of Arseniev (Arsenyev) +7 (4232) 41 41 13 Levitan +7 (4212) 32 7258

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ed as the building for classical school. The • Tropinin V. A. Portrait of unknown person. Irkutsk Fine Arts Museum building is located in the city center and has 1823 got a park • Repin I. E. Beggar (Fisherwoman). 1874 • Somov K. A. Portrait of lady. 1905 Collections: 22 373 items • Plastov A. A. Dinner of tractor drivers. 1951 • Terbruggen Ch. Dutch school. Crowning of Main sections of collection: Russian art 14th – Christ thorns. About 1622 21st cc. (including the works of Fabergé company); West European art of 17th – early Main research areas: 21st cc.; Oriental art (China, Japan Mongolia) • creation of full scientific catalogue of the 14th – 20th cc.; Siberian Art museum collection

Highlights: Last years’ main projects: • Female statuettes. latepaleolith. About • “The Ancient heritage in West European 20–22 thousands B. C. Mammoth’s tusk. art”, 2004 Conversation between Christ and scribes. • “Fabergé: lost and found”, 2006 Midfeast. Moscow school. 15th c. • “Known and Unknown Surikov”, 2007 • John the Forerunner. The second half of • “The magic of Russian Landscape ”, 2008 the 17th. Siberian letters • “The master and his work”, 2011 • Rokotov F. S. Portrait of Alexandr I. the beginning of 1780 ICOM Committee ICFA

ounded and opened in 1936. The origins Situated in the two-storey stone house was of collection formation are linked to the designed by V. A. Rassushin and constructed Fname of Vladimir Sukachev (1849−1920), a in 1905–1907 in classical style in accordance public figure of Siberia, publisher and sponsor with standard design. It was originally intend-

The State Culture Institute Irkutsk Local www.museum.irk.ru. Vladimir Platonovich Suckachev Art Gallery Director Elena Zubry 664000, Irkutsk, Lenin str., 5 +7 (3952) 333 973 Branches: [email protected] • Siberian Art Department of Irkutsk Local Art Gallery International contacts Tatyana Ogorodnikova • Historical-memorial Department of Irkutsk Local Art +7 (3952) 34 42 31 [email protected] Gallery “The V. P. Suckachev Estate”

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• works by Andrew G. Pozdeev • Cream pitcher, middle 19th c. Silver, cast- • works by Jurgis Ionasovich Preiss ing, engravings, carvings • Purse, middle 19th c. Silver, casting, plait- Last years’ main projects: ing, engravings. Plaited with small rings • Project “Artprom”. The winner of the 2009 Museum projects contest “Changing mu- Main research areas: seum in the changing world”. Project aims • regional history from the ancient times to popularize the modern trends in Kem- • military history and the natural environ- erovo art public art ment of Kuzbass • Project “I am changing the city!” The winner of the 2011 Museum projects Last years’ main project: contest “Changing museum in the chang- • ”Golden ring of Kuzbass” ing world”. Seminars for school children – pened for the visitors in October 1929. • “Museum window”, innovative exhibition ne of the largest artistic centers of Sibe- how public art can recreate the city envi- Initially the museum was located on the project which involved the windows of ria and Kuzbass and is having unique ronment O3rd floor of the Palace of Labour, build in 1929. the museum. The project aims to estab- Oworks of art collection of painting, drawing, Now the museum occupies the first floors of lish in the capital of Kuzbass new exhibi- sculpture, decorative-applied arts. Easel ICOM Committees ICOM-CC, ICFA three residential buildings. The total area of tion hall, available for viewing 24 hours a painting includes collections: country’s art museum’s premises – 2718,7 m2 day – windows of the museum. Since 2010 of the first half of the 20th century reflecting “stages of the large way”: pre-revolutionary Collection: 69 557 items of main fund; scien- ICOM Committees ICOM-CC, ICR art (later peredvizhnichestvo, Union of the tific auxiliary fund – 17 206 items Rusian Artists) – art of 20–30-s (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, Community Main sections of collection: decorative and ap- of Moscow Artists, Community of Easel Art- plied arts, fine arts, “For Kuzbass with love” – ists, “Krug”), art of 40–50-s (socialist realism); a collection of gifts offered to the Gubernator works by Moscow and St. Petersburg artists of the Kemerovo oblast, A. G. Tuleev, weaponry, are submitted notaphilic collection, phaleristics, numismatics, porcelain, rare books, icons, copper cast- Collection: over 6000 items ing, archeology, paleontology, natural science

Main sections of collection: icons of the late Highlights: 18th – early 20th cc., fine art of pre-revolution- • Silver coin of 1730. It was released during State Institution of Culture “Museum ary period (1890 – 1910-ss), fine art of the first the financial reform; of regional science of the Kemerovo region” th State Institution of Culture “Kemerovo Regional half of the 20 c., visual arts of the second • Sokol rescue space suit. Belonged to the Kemerovo, Sovetsky prospect, 55 th st Museum of Fine Arts” half of 20 – beginning 21 cc., religious arts aviator and cosmonaut, twice rewarded [email protected] th 650099, Kemerovo region, Kemerovo, Sovetsky ave., 48 and crafts of the nineteenth – early 20 cc., with the “Hero of the Soviet Union” prize www.kuzbasskray.ru folk arts and crafts 20th – 21st cc., art industry [email protected] Boris Volynov Director Olga Feofanova 20th – 21st cc. www.kuzbassizo.ru • Simeon Polotski. “Psalms in poems”. 1680 +7 (3842) 75 19 29 Director Larisa Myzina • Tooth of rhinoceros Merk, middle neo- [email protected] Highlights: +7 (3842) 36 45 32 Pleistocene International contacts Natalya Polishchuk • contemporary art Siberian Deputy director on science Maria Chertogova • Calix. Communion chalice. 1782. Silver, +7 (3842) 36 33 32 • art of Kuzbass +7 (3842) 36 44 90 casting, repoussé, niello [email protected]

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Collection: about 460 000 items Museum of the fallen heroes of the North- Khabarovsk China, Harbin (China) Main sections of collection: paleontology and • “Pages of history. Japanese aggression in geology of the Amur Region, flora and fauna the North-East of China (1931–1945)”. Regional Museum of the Far East, indigenous culture and the • “Slavic designs”. From the collections Amur Slavic immigrants, the history of explo- of the Russian Museum of Ethnography, ration and development of the Russian Far St. Petersburg, 2008–2009 East, the events of the Revolution and in – Civil War in the Far East in 1917–1922 ICOM committee CAMOC

Highlights: • sculptures ritual objects of worship indigenous shamanic Amur • numismatic collection (Latin America, Chi- na, Japan and Russia. Korea, etc.) • personal collection of well-known in the Far East – Vs. Ivanov, N. Zadornov • collection of Chinese porcelain and folk paintings

Main research areas: • cultural studies and museology • history of the Far East 18th – 21st cc. • cultural life of the Far East, 19th – early 20th cc. • ethnography of the Far East • archeology • natural science

Last years’ main projects: The Khabarovsk Regional Museum named • “Kalan and beads” National Museum of after N. I. Grodekov Ethnology, Osaka (Japan). 2001 680000, Khabarovsk area, 11, Shevchenko str., • “Modernism in the Russian Far East 1918– Khabarovsk 1928’s.”. Park “Russian Village”, Niigata General director Nikolay Ruban stablished in 1984. The building was in was built in 1975. In 2008 opened a new build- (Japan). 2002–2004 +7 (4212) 30 64 10 1894 for the museum. An annex, which ing, an architectural feature is a special gallery • “The participation of the Red Army in [email protected] Ehoused panorama “Volochaevskaya battle that hosts the massive skeleton of a whale the liberation of the North-East of China”

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In 1989 collection of the well-known Khakas • Khakas petroglyphes Khakas regional sculptor and collector Irina Karachakova • 18th c. tapestries (1919–1989 years) was transferred to the • Khakas female jewelry museum. About 2000 objects: works of • collection of Khakas people ethnography: studies museum Karachakova, personal belongings, docu- household items, hunting, fishing, animal ments and letters, books, postcards of art, husbandry, tableware, kitchen utensils, sculpture, prints and drawings, paintings by clothing, horse equipment, etc. Russian and Western artists, decorative and applied art, art furniture of 18th – 19th cc., Main research areas: photo negatives, two tapestries which relate • explorers of Khakassia to a series of “Months of Luke” (February, • ethnography March) repetition of the ninth (1737–1740, • cult places in Khakassia French weaver Michel Odranom to manufac- • development of museums and museology ture tapestries) in Kharassia

Collection: 120 000 items Last years’ main projects: • “Days of the Khakas culture in Moscow” Main sections of collection: archeology, eth- (2007 – celebration of the 300th anniversa- nography, natural science, documents, paint- ry of the attachment of Khakassia to Rus- ings, jewelers, weapons sia in 2011) • “Paths of the Central Asia” (2011–2012) Highlights of the collection: • rock sculptures ICOM Committee CAMOC

ounded in 1929 on the social initiative. after the archeology expedition. I. I. Balkevich Located on the ground floor of a resi- donated 18 iron arrowheads. Another valu- Fdential building. The first items have been able collection came from Minusinsk regio- received in the initial period of the museum nal museum named after N. M. Martianov.

State autonomous cultural institution of the Khakassia Republic “National Khakas regional studies museum named after L. R. Kyzlasov” Khakas Republic, Abakan, Pushkin str., 96 [email protected] www.nhkm.ru Director Tatiana Feoktistova +7 (3902) 22 38 30

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Main research areas: • contemporary art of the memory in the context of museum exposition • contemporary art in the context of spatial identity • contemporary art and city communications useum building was constructed in the style of Soviet modernism Last years’ main projects: M • “Design of Siberia”. VII Krasnoyarsk Collection: 16 907 items museum biennale, 2007 • “Tunguska substance”. The exhibition Main sections of collection: Russian and for- of contemporary art for the centenary of eign visual arts of the end of the 20th – begin- Tunguska phenomena, 2008 ning of the 21st cc.; art works of Krasnoyarsk • “Expanse”. VIII Krasnoyarsk museum artists of the end of the 20th – beginning of the biennale, 2009 21st cc.; the collection of the artifacts from the • “Diaries of wars”. Permanent exhibition history of Soviet Union about contemporary wars in Russia, 2010 pened November 30, 1990 when the Main sections of collection: musical instru- • “In the depth”. IX Krasnoyarsk museum Common scientific and methodological ments Highlights: biennale, 2011 Ocenter staff and cultural gleam of folk art of • works by Konstantin Batynkov, Alexandr the Ministry of Culture of the Yakut Republic. Highlights: Khomus collection and Olga Florensky, Valery Koshlyakov, ICOM Committee ICEE The initiator of the museum is the Ivan Alek- seev, known khomusist-improviser, a tireless Main research areas: history of musical in- Krasnoyarsk Cultural Historical Museum Complex advocate for the revival of khomus music. The struments of the world basis for a fund of the museum was the per- Krasnoyarsk, Mira square, 1 sonal collection of Varganov gathered from ICOM Committee CIMCIM [email protected] around the world, donated them to the future www.mira1.ru of the museum. The collection of Jew’s harps Director Mikhail Shubsky were Thailand, Philippines, India, Tuva, Mon- +7 (391) 212 36 69 golia, Scotland, Austria and other countries. The Khomus museum [email protected] Together with the jew’s harp donated photo- 677027, Sakha Republic, Yakutsk, Kirova str., 31 Executive secretary Alexandra Semenova graphs, records, books, magazines, newspa- [email protected] +7 (391) 212 46 24 per articles, advertisements and other units http://www.ilkhomus.com [email protected] devoted to harp music International contacts Sergey Kovalevsky Director Shishigin Nikolay +7 (391) 212 46 67 +7 (4112) 42 86 75 Collection: about 7000 items [email protected]

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reated in 1889 on the Krasnoyarsk • Two-headed fish of pollan order, 3–2 B.C. Krasnoyarsk Museum publics initiative and with support by • Staff “Pjure” of Selkup shaman. The end of CKrasnoyarsk town council. Situated in a two- the 19th – the beginning of the 20th cc. storied building style of an Egyptian temple, • Arrow “Tisse” of Ket shaman. The end of of Regional Studies designed by L. A. Chernyshov in 1918 (his- the 19th c. toric and cultural monuments of regional significance). Total area of building is 3527,8 2m Main research areas: • formation and development of the muse- Collection: 463 197 items um studies in Krasnoyarsk region • history and progress of the Yenisei (Kras- Main sections of the collection: painting, noyarsk) province in 19th – the beginning graphic arts, sculpture, archaeology, ethnog- of the 20th cc. raphy of the Russian people, ethnography of • ethnography of the Krasnoyarsk region, indigenous people, natural-science collec- archaeology tion, numismatics, documents Last years’ main projects: Highlights: • “Everyday socialism, or Made in USSR” • Triptych “St. Nikolai Mojayiskiy”. 16th – • “From an stockaded town to megalopolis” 18th cc. • “Krasnoyarsk museum of Regional Stud- • Bronze mask charm. Tashtikskaya-culture. ies. 120 years. Time machine” I B.C. • “The Great Victory” • Bronze dagger from Novo-Pyatnitsky bur- • “Time of changes” ied treasure. Tashtikskaya-culture. 7th – 6th centuries B.C. ICOM Committee ICR

KGBUK “Krasnoyarsk Museum of Regional Studies” 660049, Krasnoyarsk, Dubrovinskogo Str., 84 Branch: Memorial complex of V. P. Astafiev in the Ovsyanka village [email protected] [email protected] www.kkkm.ru Director Valentina Yaroshevskaya +7 (391) 227 27 57 Executive secretary Nadezhda Sichkar +7 (391) 265 34 85 International contacts Lyubov Karnaukhova +7 (391) 265 34 85 [email protected]

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Main research areas: • history and culture of the city of Irkutsk

Last years’ main projects: • Annual Scientific Conference “My City” • children’s local history club “Irkutsk – Fort Ross” • “Club “meeting” for the victims of political repressions ounded in 1877 by chemist, scientist, bot- of southern Siberia late 19th – early 20th cc. • “Club Honorary citizens of the city of Ir- anist, N. Martyanov, with the active sup- kutsk” Fport of the local population, political exiles Main research areas: and the scientific community • archaeology ICOM Committee CAMOC • ethnography Located in two buildings: the first museum • local history building (1890 by Rassushin) was built in the Romanesque style on public donations; the Last years’ main projects: second museum building (1901) was rebuilt • “100 years Usinsk tract”. TNKM named af- later, now there are exhibition halls ter Aldan Maadyr, Kyzyl, Tyva, 2010 • “Light my elm”. Museum complex Zhe- Collection: about 190 000 items leznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, April – stablished in 1996. The building was con- June 2011 structed in the late 19th c. merchant – phi- Main sections of the collection: archaeology, Elanthropist Alexander Sibiryakov in memory Municipal cultural organization natural history (geology, botany, zoology, ICOM Committee ICMAH of his sister Antonia Kladischeva as a free “Museum of the history of Irkutsk” paleontology, anthropology), ethnography, school for children of both sexes. In 2007 it numismatics and faleristics, negatives and Municipal budget Cultural Institution “Minusinsk was transferred to the Museum 664003, Irkutsk region, Irkutsk, photographs, art fund. Regional Studies Museum named after N. M. Martyanov” Frank-Kamenetskogo str., 16 A 625000, Krasnoyarsk region, Minusinsk, Collection: over 85 000 Branches: Highlights: Lenina str., 60 1. City Exhibition Center named after V. Rogal • collection of artistic bronze Scythian Branches: Main sections of collectionphotography, the- 2. Soldiers of the Fatherland epoch • Memorial Museum “Flat of Krzyzanowski and Starkov” matic collections “Irkutsk – the city cosmo- 3. The museum of urban life • the collection of stone sculptures and • Museum of the Decembrists politan”, “Irkutsk hydroelectric station”, “the 4. House of Crafts steles of different eras [email protected] history of municipal government”, “Irkutsk [email protected] • religious and household items peoples of komsomol”, “Irkutsk diocese”, “soldiers of the http://history.irk.ru/ Director Lyudmila Ermolaeva the Sayan-Altai (Khakassia, Tuva) Fatherland”, “honorary citizens of the city of +7 (39132) 22 297 Director Irina Ternovaja • negatives and photographs on the history Irkutsk”, “merchants of Irkutsk”, “toy”, “his- Deputy-director on science Timofey Kluchnikov +7 (3952) 71 04 25

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The first exposition of the museum opened Main research areas: Museum of history in 7th of June (26 of May), 1891. Located in • regional studies a historical monument – pontifical chambers • ethnology (1913–1924) and culture of people Last years’ main projects: Collection: 84 852 items • Exposition “Culture upon the permafrost” of the North within the program of holding days of Re- Main sections of collection: documental and public of Sakha (Yakutia) in headquarters photomaterials, wooden and metal items, of UNESCO in Paris, France, 2005 items made from cloth, leather, and fur, glass • Exposition “Poland painted by the tradi- and porcelain, special custody, “Painting”, tion” of National museum in Poznan (Po- “Graphic Arts”, “Sculpture”, “Archeology”, land) in Yakut State Museum of history and natural-historical complex culture of the people of the North named after Em. Yaroslavsky, in 2007 Highlights: • Exposition “Nature and culture of Sakha • the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, people” in The Hokkaido Museum of North- 1858 ern Peoples in Abashiri (Japan) in 2007. • skeleton of Tirekhtyakh mammoth, 2200 The cast of baby mammoth in natural size years ago was made, contract on 3-year lease and • skeleton of Greenland right whale, more further passing to Japan side was signed than 1000 years • Exposition “Circumpolar civilization in mu- • model of Yakut fortress of 17 century made seums of Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)”, of mammoth bones, 1886 where collections of museums from 14 • Goblet. Choroon with inscription to the 70th regions were presented within the interna- anniversary of general secretary the CPSU tional conference “Circumpolar civilization Central Committee Brezhnev L. I. Mam- in museums of the world: yesterday, today, moth bones, diamonds, 1976 tomorrow” • the kontush belt. Silk, spun gold. The second half of 19th c. ICOM Committee ICEE of March (27 of February), 1887 Vilyui and sent to the committee by Semyon Yakutsk regional statistical committee Egorov, the headman of 1st Chochui com- 12made a resolution to found a local museum munity of Vilyui region. By this time the first at the initiative of secretary A. I. Popov. The museums were founded in Siberia, attention reason was the cranium of fossil bison, which to Yakutia was growing up as a perspec- was found in 1886 on the bank of the river tive source of row materials rich in minerals.

Yakut State Museum of history and culture of the people • House museum ‘Yakut exile’ of the North named after Em. Yaroslavsky • Memorial house museum of M. K. Ammosov Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk, Lenin str., 5/2 • House museum of E. M. Yaroslavskiy [email protected] Branches: • Cherkekh historical-ethnographic museum named after Director Egor Shishigin D. K. Sivtsev – Suorun Omolloon +7 (4112) 34 35 27 • Republican museum of nationhood history of the Republic Executive secretary Liya Egorova of Sakha (Yakutia) n.a. +7 (4112) 34 35 27 • M. K. Ammosov

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Collection: 20 871 items of the main fund, Far East and Amur regions Museum of history 84 013 – subsidiary fund, 293 138 – tempo- • Exhibition “Under the badge of Golden rary storing griffin”, Germany, 2007 • Exhibition “Siberian Amazons”, Germany, and culture of Siberia Main sections of collection: archaeology and 2010 ethnography of a wide ethnic and territorial • Interdisciplinary project with the Institute and Far East range: the Kazakhs, the Shortsy, the Teleuty, the of Catalysis named after G. K. Boreskov Selkupy, the Khanty, the Mansy, the Buryats, the “Elaboration of physic-chemical basis of Yakuty, the Yukagirs, the Evenky, the Chukchy, a new type hygrostatand equipment de- the Nanaytsy, the Ulchy, the Russian Resettlers velopment for exhibit, storage and transportation of rare books, manuscripts and Highlights: other museum values”. The main idea was • vessels with mask images, sculptural plas- the elaboration of sorbent, which will be tic. Late stone age able to offer the optimal climate regime for • highly artistic bronze and bone items, Ear- the storage of biological items ly bronze age • “The collections of the Museum of his- • Pazyryk culture items, including biological tory and culture of Siberian and Far East items – mummies with tattoos peoples as a source of information for social-cultural adaptation process on the Last years’ main projects: aboriginal peoples research”, projects of • Exhibition “Wonders of the archaeology”, museum collection study, 2006–2008 South Korea, 2006, presented the archaeological and ethnographic collections of ICOM Committee ICMAH

art of the Institute structure. Founded in and exposition processes were undertaken 1968 by the initiative and under the su- simultaneously, as a result of the active expe- Ppervision of A. P Okladnikov – the first Direc- dition activities on the wide territory from the tor of the Institute. The collection gathering Ural mountains till Far East

Institute of archaeology and ethnography Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science. Museum of history and culture of Siberia and Far East peoples 630090, Novosibirsk, Zolotodolinskaya str., 4 www.archaeology.nsc.ru Director Irina Salnikova +7 (383) 330 24 92 [email protected] Executive secretary Olga Novikova +7 (383) 330 22 80 [email protected] International contacts Nelly Kuzemo +7 (383) 330 22 41 [email protected]

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Collection: 61 602 items • Norillag history Museum of Norilsk • Norilsk history during the Great Patriotic Main sections of collection: decorative art col- War lection, historical and genre collection, written industrial area history sources, audio-, photo- and visual sources, Last years’ main projects: natural-science collection • Exhibition of Sergey M. Eyzenshtein’s graphic works from the stocks of the State Highlights: Central Museum of Cinema (Moscow) • Nikolay N. Urvantsev’s fund. Urvantsev • Exhibition of Georgiy I. Danilov’s drawings was a geologist, geographer, polar re- from the collection of the Central Museum searcher, one of the discoverers of a of prisoners of war in Lambinovitse (Po- unique Norilsk deposit land) dedicated to the Memorial Day of po- • fund of the history of the USSR NKVD No- litical repressions victims and to the 60th rilsk Corrective Labour Camp. It contains anniversary of the first museum exposition documents, photos, personal belongings • “Mark Chagall. The Bible stories” from the and everyday objects of the Norillag pris- Kunstgalerien Bottingerkhaus’ collection oners (Germany), in association with OOO Euro- • mineralogical collection of issue contains Art Center in the framework of the project rare and unique findings from the Taymyr “Names conquered the World” and former USSR Republics • “Political “justice” and political prisoners • collection of the material culture objects of in modern Russia” from the stocks of the the Taymyr natives Museum and Social Center named after Andrey Sakharov dedicated to the Memo- Main research areas: rial Day of political repressions victims • history of geologic discoveries on the Tay- ounded in 1939 by the order of facto- in the building was located cinema named myr territory in 19th – early 20th cc. ICOM Committee CAMOC ry’s director No. 266 dated 8 July 1939. after V. I. Lenin. Nowadays the building FSituated in a historically and architectur- represents a local object of the cultural ally significant part of Norilsk. Previously heritage

Museum of the history of Norilsk industrial area development Norilsk, Leninskiy Avenue, 14 Branches: • Talnakh branch • Kayerkan branch • Memorial house “The first house of Norilsk” • Memorial complex “Norilsk Golgotha” Director Svetlana Slesareva +7 (3919) 46 06 46 [email protected] International contacts Natalya Boyarkina +7 (3919) 46 41 99 [email protected]

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ounded by the decree of RSFSR Coun- Highlights: cil of Ministers dated August 9, 1965. • “Portrait of Alexander Zaikin”, V. Tropinin FOpened on June 29th, 1966 on the basis of the • “Portrait of Henrietta Hirschmann”, K. Somov art department of the local history museum • “Portrait of a brother of David with a Man- reated by the public initiative in 1991 in Main research areas: history and ethnogra- named after V. Arseniev. The main exhibition dolin” Marc Chagall village Kolyma, center Halarchinskogo phy of the Far North and funds are placed in the building (1899– Cnaslega – place of compact residence of the 1903) intended to house the local branch of ICOM Committee ICFA Chukchi. Museum is a center of communica- ICOM Committees: ICEE, ICME the Russian-Asian Bank, whose reign was in tion villagers, themed events, exhibitions and Moscow The State Cultural organization “Primorye various competitions State Picture Gallery” Regional Museum named after N. I. Tavrat Collection: about 6 000 items Collection: about 5000 items 690090, Primorski area, Vladivostok, 678841, Sakha republic, Niznekolymsky ulus, Aleutskaya str., 12 Kolymskoe village Main sections of collection: Russian art of [email protected] Main sections of collection: ethnography col- Director Vera Tyrylgina 18th – early 20th cc., the Russian graphic 18th – www.primgallery.ru lections of Chukchi, Eveny, Ukagiry early 20th cc., West European Art of 14th – +7 (41157) 26 286 Director Irina Azimova early 20th cc. Highlights: mammoth fossils [email protected] +7 (4232) 41 11 44

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Present the typical Russian Siberian village of • preservation of traditional peasant crafts Shushenskoe 19th – early 20th cc. with all the buildings types: and their technology houses, shops, prison, restaurant – about 200 • history of political exile in Russia buildings – with exhibitions and memorial ex- • art collection Museum-reserve positions Last years’ main projects: Collections: 101 891 items • “The life of Siberian merchants” – ethnographic exhibition from the funds of Main sections of collection: objects of applied the museum “Shushenskoye” and Kras- art, peasant’s life and ethnography, painting, noyarsk museum of regional studies graphics, numismatics, rare books and docu- • “Song of Tuva nomad” – ethnographic ments, objects of history of technics. exhibition from the fund of the National Tuva Museum in the context of the inter- Highlights: national festival of ethnic music “Sayan • Siberian peasant’s houses and nearby con- ring” structions of the end of the 19th – early 20th cc. • “The trip to the Lukanin’s country” – art • V. I. Ulaynov’s original belongings from his exhibition from the fund of the museum Siberian exile period “Shushenskoye” devoted to the hun- • collection of peasant’s agricultural imple- dredth birth of Shushenskoye artist ments and machines for producing everyday K.T. Lukanin items from the end of the 19th – early 20th c. • “May your purse be always full!” – art • collection of soviet paintings and graphics exhibition from the fund of the museum “Shushenskoye” (participation in the Kras- Main research areas: noyarsk Museum Biennale) • History and ethnography of Siberian peas- n 1970 for a centenary of V. I. Lenin’s birth base of the Lenin’s house-museum founded antry of the 19th – 20th cc. ICOM Committee ICFA the state memorial museum-preserve “The in 1930. Since 1993 the museum has the ISiberian V. I. Lenin’s exile” was opened on the modern name.

The State Historical and Ethnographic Museum-reserve “Shushenskoye” 662713, Krasnoyarsk territory, Shushenskoye, Novaya str., 1 Branches: • Yermakovskoye village • Sizaya village “The Ivan Yarigin’s museum” www.shush.ru Director Galina Bugaeva +7 (39139) 3 23 39 [email protected] International contacts Valentina Terenteva, Director’s assistant for development +7 (39139) 3 16 08 [email protected]

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• Korovin K. A. “Sevastopol Bazar”, 1915 Tomsk Regional • Krachkovskii I. E. “Crimean landscape”, 1910 • Kustodiev B. M. “Apple orchard”, 1918 Museum of Art • Platonov J. P. “Peasant girl”, 1876 • Surikov V. I. “Portrait Haminova Z. F.” • J. D. Kur “Portrait of Princess Olga Shcher- batova”, 1840

stablished in 1979 and opened in 1982. The basis of museum’s collection con- Esist of art collections of the Tomsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, which have been collected by staff of the Society for the Protection of monuments of art and antiquity. Arrivals of 1920–30 from the Moscow State Museum Fund and the State Museum of Fine Arts were included in the collection too

Situated in the three-storey brick mansion (1872) with the total area of 4 624 m2

Main research areas: • Western European Art 16th – 20th cc. • icons 16th – 20th cc. • Russian Art 18th – 20th cc. • modern painting and graphics • sculpture • decorative and applied art • artistic Life of Tomsk and Siberia The Autonomous Regional State Cultural Institution “Tomsk Regional Museum of Art” Last years’ main projects: Branches: • All-Russian project – The Triennial “Draw- • Museum of Wooden Architecture ing of Russia”. 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 • Picture Gallery • International project “Art for Tolerance”. • Museum of Northern Art Collection: 11 700 items 2009 Tomsk, Nahanovich lane, 5 • Participation in the international museum www.artmuseum.tomsk.ru Main sections of collection: West-European project “The Tea Road. Hospitable Burya- art, icons, Russian art, modern painting, tia” with exhibition project “A Multi-Facet- Director Irina Yaroslavtseva modern graphics, sculpture, decorative and ed Reality of Russian Painting”. 2011 +7 (3822) 51 54 19 applied art • Forum of contemporary art «Art museum [email protected] Project». 2011 International contacts: Tatyana Mikutskaya Highlights: +7 (3822) 51 58 05 • Aivazovsky I. K. “Ship in a storm”, 1886 ICOM Committee INTERCOM [email protected]

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Collection: 21 678 items Main research areas: Tomskaya Pisanitsa • scientific monitoring of the condition of Main sections of the collection: archaeologi- Tomskaya pisanitsa cal collection, ethnographic collection, peth- • ancient monuments of rock art of Siberia roglips collection, documentary fund • ethnography of the Russian and indigenous population of Pritomya region Highlights: • scientific systematization and publication • ancient monument of rock art of federal of collections of museum-reserve significance – an ancient sanctuary Tom- • sociologic researches in the museum skaya pisanitsa. Practically all petroglyphs of Tomskaya Pisanitsa (apart from plain of Last years’ main projects: images from the 3rd group) date from one • “Museum and Library – the guardians of chronological period. But the dating of this cultural heritage” – a collective exhibition period is disputable. In the opinion of one project from the funds of museum-reserve group of research workers the most an- “Tomskaya Pisanitsa” and the collection of cient images in Tomskaya Pisanitsa date books from the funds of the central munici- from the neolith era (the end of the stone pal library system, 2009–2011. More than age, 400 thousand years BC), whilst oth- 200 collective exhibitions were organized ers attribute their origins to the bronze age in the halls of libraries in Kemerovo and (200 thousand years BC) Kemerovo region during this project • mica-coated copies of ancient Asian petroglyphic monuments ICOM Committee CIDOC

ounded by the Resolution of the Council ing and studying the flora and fauna of of Ministers of Russian Soviet Federa- museum-reserve, creating the modern sys- Ftive Socialist Republic of February 16, 1988 tem of use of the monuments of culture and for saving, museumification, study and pub- history, organization of scientific and cog- lic presentation of the monument of Rock art nitive tourism, saving historical landscape. of federal significance, “Tomskaya Pisan- The territory of museum-preserve is 156 itsa” – archaeological and ethnographical hectares, the office of museum-preserve is monuments standing in the open space, situated at entry level of an accommodation items of the museum and collections, sav- unit in Kemerovo

Historical, cultural and natural museum-preserve “Tomskaya Pisanitsa” 652038, Kemerovskaya oblast, Yashkinskiy district, village Pisanaya [email protected] www.gukmztp.ru Director Valeriy Kaplunov +7 (3842) 758 633 Executive secretary Anna Pokrovskaya +7 (3842) 758 633, [email protected]

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reated in 1988 by the decision of Kalinin- grad Department of Culture. The collec- Ction part has been transferred from the Kalin- ingrad regional history and art museum. The building belonged until 1991 to the regional committee of the Communist Party of the So- viet Union

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Main sections of collection: painting, graphic, sculpture and subjects of arts and crafts (jew- pened in 1948, it’s the date of 100 years Last years’ main projects: els), national and foreign art of second half of since the birth of V. Surikov. The build- • Yearly Surikov Winter Art Festival 20th c. (from socialist realism to postmodern- Oing of Museum (house where Surikov was • Ethno-cultural projects: Museum Night – ism), art of 17th – first half of 20th c. born) was built in 1830 with a wing added Night of Ivan Kupala, Praskovia Day in 1900 • VIII Krasnoyarsk museum Biennale Highlights: • IX Krasnoyarsk museum Biennale • The largest collection of works of artists Collection: 1300 items from the “New reality” studio under the di- ICOM Committee DEMHIST rection of E. Beljutin Main sections of collection: paintings; graph- Municipal budgetary institution of culture “Talmen’ • East Prussian art. Sculpture by S. Kauer, ics; sculptures; books; photos; arts and crafts regional studies museum” E. Schmidt-Kestner, graphic by G. Volf, The Museum-Estate of V. Surikov 658030, Altai krai, Tal’menka, Kuybyshev str., 96 N. Doletsih, H. Nojmann Highlights: V. Surikov’s paintings and draw- Krasnoyarsk, Lenin str., 98 [email protected] • Unique collection of a contemporary ings www.surikov-dom.ru Director Ludmila Smirnova graphic of Baltic region countries +7 (960) 948 00 23 Director Elena Stroganova • West European engraving (facsimile) by Main research areas: Siberian period of Executive secretary Vadim Vistingausen +7 (391) 211 24 78 masters of the 15th – 20th cc. V.Surikov’s life and creation +7 (38591) 2 70 73 [email protected]

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productive power of the Yakut Autonomous Yakutia national Soviet Socialist Republic. On November 8, 1928 the Picture Hall under the Regional museum of Local lore was opened. In 2002 the fine arts museum building of the former U. A. Gagarin Printing House was assigned for free for the disposi- tion of the part of collection the museum. On November 23, 2005 after the reconstruction the permanent exposition opened there

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Main sections of collection: Russian art of the 18th – 19th cc., 20th c. art, art of Yakutia, art of the foreign countries

Highlights: • Section of theYakut bone-carving art • The Section of theYakut graphic arts Last years’ main projects: • Jewelry Art • “The museum – Spiritual resource of the • Russian painting (V. A. Tropinin, I. K. Aiva- people”, since 2006 zovsky, I. I. Shishkin, A. I. Kuinji etc.) • Constantly renovating project “The World • West-European Art (Renieri, Rembrandt, Eposes and the Olonkho”, 2007–2011 Durer etc.) • International Biennale of the young art “ART-POISK” Main research areas: • Long-term Project “The Rarities of Yaku- stablished by the initiative of a research Committee and the Council of People’s Com- • collections occur as a basic source of the tia”, since 2011 society “SakhaKeskile” (“The Future of missars of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet So- fundamental and applied researches EYakutia”), by the initiative of M. K. Ammosov – cialist Republic, the Commission of the Acad- • conception of the museum development ICOM Committee ICFA the Chairman of the Yakut Central Executive emy of Sciences of the USSR on study of the

The State Budget Institution the State Museum Art • Namsky Fine Arts Museum (Namsky (ulus) region, Complex “The National Fine Arts Museum of the Namtsy village) Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)” • Tiksi Museum of the Arctichistory, culture and art 677000, The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk, (Bulunsky (ulus) region, Tiksit own ship) Kirov str., 9 www.sakhamuseum.ru www.museum.sakhamuseum.ru Branches: • Professor M. F. Gabyshev Gallery of the Foreign Art General director Asya Gabysheva • Academician A. N. Osipov Art Gallery +7 (4112) 33 52 74 [email protected] • Kharbalakh Art Gallery (Tattinsky (ulus) region, Ytyk- International relations Tatiana Baskhardyrova Kuel village) +7 964 415 65 93 • Vilutchan Art Gallery (Suntarsky (ulus) region, Vilutchan [email protected] village)

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reated in 1984 at the 30th Anniversary ZheleznOgorsk Museum of getting by the city a status of the City CKrasnoyarsk-26. Museum is situated in the Exhibition Center two-storey building of 1814.2 m2 Collection: over 80 000 items

Main sections of the collection: scientific and natural history, documents, archeological collection of artifacts and petroglyphic prints of Krasnoyarsk region from Stone Age up to Middle Ages, collection of numismatics and rare books of 18th – 20th cc., ethnographic items and technique, history of creation of main companies in the city, arts and crafts

Highlights of the collection: • weapons and decoration items IV–I century AD (Ust’-Taseevo spiritual number of items), • petroglyphic prints (Khakas-Minusinsk re- Last years’ main projects: gion) • Grant of the Governor of Krasnoyarsk re- • documents in the city history and city- gion A. G. Khloponin for the project “Pisan- forming companies itsy Krasnoyar’ya”, 2007 • documents belonging to the former city • Grant of the State Corporation for Nuclear governors, to the people who participated Energy “Rosatom” for the project “Atomic in Chernobyl’s accident consequences liq- vector”, 2008 uidators • Grant of the charitable fund of the cultural • space satellites mock-ups initiatives by Mikhail Prokhorov for the proj- • ships models, housekeeping items end of ect “Echo of the Civil War”. Grant of the Municipal Budget Institution of Culture 19th – early 20th cc. State Corporation for Nuclear Energy “Ro- “Museum-Exhibition Center” ZATO Zheleznogorsk, • home crafts collection satom» for the project “Learn Atomgrad”, City of Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region 2009 662972, ZATO Zheleznogorsk, Main research areas: • Prize “Inspiration” for “The best museum of Sverdlova Str., 68 P.B. 192. • history and development of the City, its’ Krasnoyarsk region”, 2010 Branches: Museum of Archeology forming companies: «Mining-and-Chem- • Grant of the competition “Social partner- ical Combine» and Joint-stock company ship for development” for the project Director Valentina Popova «Informational Satellite Systems» named “Boundary of Chernobyl” +7 (3919) 75 97 77 after Academician Mikhail Reshetnev», a • Grant of the competition “Social partner- [email protected] construction company No. 9 for Spetsstroy ship for the sake of development” for the Executive secretary Liliya Chernyavskaya Rossii RF project “Beresta Light”, Subsidy (grant) of +7 (3919) 79 61 55 • ZATO and Krasnoyarsk region archeology, Krasnoyarsk Cultural Ministry for the proj- [email protected] petroglyphic (rock paintings) ect “Shield of the Fatherland”, 2011 International contacts Svetlana Martinson • arts and crafts famous people, honored +7 (3919) 75 12 54 people of the City ICOM Committees CECA, ICR, ICMAH [email protected]

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The Embassy of the Russian Federation in France http://www.mosdepkultura.ru/ 40-50, Boulevard Lannes [email protected] 75116 Paris, France Director Sergey Kapkov http://www.france.mid.ru Head of the Museums and Exhibitions ORGANIZATIONS [email protected] Activity Division Anton Gorianov +7 (331) 45 03 02 18 +7 (495) 621 73 81 Counsellor Dmitry Mezhaurov CAMOC ICOFOM Ministry of Culture and Spiritual Permanent Delegation of Russia to UNESCO Development of the Republic of Sakha 8, Rue de Prony (Yakutia) 75017 Paris, France 30, Lenina av. http://www.unesco.mid.ru 677011 Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) [email protected] http://www.sakha.gov.ru/minkult Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova [email protected] +7 (331) 42 12 84 30 Minister Andrey Borisov CECA, ICOFOM, SIMUSET, AVICOM, ICEE +7 (4112) 42 11 63 Government institutions CIMAM, CECA Department for Foreign and Inter-Regional Relations, Yamalo-Nenetsky Region National Committee Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation 119200 Moscow 9, Molodezhy av. of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 7/6, bldg. 1, 2, Maly Gnezdnikovsky lane http://www.unesco.ru 629008 Salekhard for UNESCO 125993 Moscow [email protected] http://www.interyamal.ru 30, Lenina str., office 331 http://www.mkrf.ru Executive Secretary Grigory Ordzhonikidze [email protected] 677011 Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) [email protected] +7 (499) 244 24 56 +7 (8349) 222 26 35 http://www.sakha.gov.ru/node/8395 Minister Alexander Avdeev INTERCOM, ICOFOM, CIDOC, ICMAH, Chief Specialist Irina Permyakova [email protected] +7 (495) 629 23 11 AVICOM, MPR CAMOC +7 (4112) 42 01 58 INTERCOM, ICEE, ICMAH, ICFA Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media Co-Chairperson Elizaveta Sidorova Ministry of Culture of Moscow Region ICEE Ministry of Communications 5, Strastnoy boulevard and Press of the Russian Federation 127994 Moscow 2/5/4, bldg. 3, Slavyanskaya sq. 109074 Moscow, Russian Federation The Government of the Republic 7, Tverskaya str. http://www.fapmc.ru http://www.mk.mosreg.ru of Sakha (Yakutia) 125375 Moscow Director Mikhail Seslavinskiy [email protected] 11, Kirova str. http://minsvyaz.ru [email protected] 677011 Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) [email protected] +7 (495) 231 46 04 Minister Natalia Ratnikova http://www.sakha.gov.ru/government +7 (495) 771 81 00 ICLM +7 (495) 974 70 17 +7 (495) 974 32 87 [email protected] Minister Igor Shegolev Vice Minister Svetlana Anokhina +7 (4112) 43 56 66 Adviser Olga Golovach Public Chamber of the Russian Federation ICAMT, DEMHIST, CAMOC, ICOFOM Vice-Chairman Feodosiya Gabysheva [email protected] 7, bldg. 1, Miusskaya sq. CECA CIDOC 125993 Moscow The Department of Culture http://www.oprf.ru of the City of Moscow Commission of the Russian Federation First Deputy Secretary Mikhail Ostrovsky 8/10, Neglinnaya str. for UNESCO +7 (495) 606 01 11 107031 Moscow 32/34, bldg. 1, Smolenskaya-Sennaya sq. INTERCOM

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M. I. Rudomino All-Russia State Library General Director Genieva Ekaterina Libraries for Foreign Literature Deputy General Director Sinitsyna Olga 1, Nikoloyamskaya str. [email protected] National Library of Russia 109189 Moscow CECA stablished on May 16, 1795, by the order the first Russian printed book “Apostle” www.libfl.ru Eof empress Catherine II as the first state (1564); the personal library of French enlight- +7 (495) 915 55 32 public library in the country. On January 2, ener Voltaire; the oldest dated manuscript http://www.libfl.ru 1814, it was opened for the readers book – “Ostromir Gospel” (1056–1057); collection of Korans of the 9th – 10th cc. Located in different parts of the city in dif- Scientific organizations ferent buildings: main building (1796–1801, Main research areas: history of librarianship State Research Institute for Restoration Scientist Natalia Kopelanskaya arch. E. Sokolov); several buildings were and book, the study of manuscript heritage, [email protected] added in 1828–1832 and 1896–1901. Since the study of local lore, genealogy, document 44, Gastello str. 107014 Moscow CECA, ICLM 1949, the Library occupies the building of the preservation and conservation, the creation Museum Encyclopedia Department former School of Catherine the Creat (1804). of electronic collections http://www.gosniir.ru [email protected] [email protected] New building of the Library (2003) located in +7 (495) 959 09 43 Director Alexander Trezvov 165, Moskovsky Prospect Last years’ main projects: ICOFOM • Exhibition ‘The Gifts of Sultans: The Art of +7 (499) 268 50 77 +7 (499) 268 84 97 Collection: 36 000 000 items Gifting at Moslem Courts”, Qatar Museum Russian Scientific Research Institute of the Cheif of Microbiological of Islamic Art (Doha, Qatar), March of 2012 Cultural and Natural Heritage named D. S. Likhachev Main sections of collection: Russian book • Exhibition “Holy Russia”, the Louvre, Sector of Biology Department Maria Dmitrieva collection, Foreign collection, the collec- March of 2010 [email protected] 2, Kosmonavtov str. tions of newspapers, maps, musical-and- • May of 2010. Exhibition “Poster of Russian ICOM-CC 129366 Moscow note publications and sound records, prints, Constructivism, 1920-s–30-s” in the city of http://www.heritage-institute.ru rare books and manuscripts, as well as the Chaumont, Haute-Marne (France) State Institute for Art History [email protected] personal Voltaire’s library and the collection • December of 2010. Exhibition “Sand- 5, Kozitsky lane Director Yury Vedenin “Rossica” Glass”: Drawings by Iosif Brodsky (to the 103009 Moscow +7 (495) 686 13 19 poet’s 70th anniversary). The exhibition http://www.sias.ru Head of the Center for Ecological Problems Highlights: Collection of works by A. S. Push- showed the unpublished drawings by of Heritage Preservation Galina Zaytseva Director Dmitry Trubochkin kin; the collection “Rossica” – the most com- Brodsky from his archives held at the Man- [email protected] Head of the Department plete in the world collection of works about uscript Division of the NLR. Conjointly with +7 (916) 685 17 45 of Ancient Art Lev Lifshits Russia before 1917; the largest collection of the Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts INTERCOM, ICOM-CC, ICFA +7 (495) 694 03 71 foreign maps and atlases of the 16th – 18th cc. of Yale University (USA) [email protected] in the Russia; the unique collection of Russian The Museum Scientific Council, Russian Academy ICFA first printed music publications of the 18th c.; ICOM Committee ICMS of Science, Siberian Branch Federal State Budgetary Institution Russian Institute for Cultural Research 6, Lavrentieva str. 630090 Novosibirsk 191069, Saint Petersburg, Sadovaya Str., 18 20, Bersenevskaya emb. http://www.iis.nsk.su [email protected] 109072 Moscow http://www.history.nsc.ru www.nlr.ru http://www.ricur.ru +7 (383) 330 13 49 Director Anton V. Likhomanov +7 (495) 959 09 08 Director of the History Institute Russian Academy +7 (812) 310 28 56 Director Kirill Razlogov, of Science, Siberian Branch Vladimir Lamin [email protected] Laboratory for Museum Design and Planning Vice-Chairman of the Museum Scientific Council, International contacts Elena B. Bokhonskaya http://www.future.museum.ru/lmp Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch +7 (812) 310 98 50 [email protected] [email protected] Olga Shelegina

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+7 (383) 330 05 89 +7 (812) 717 27 13 Scientific Secretary of the Museum Scientific ICOFOM, CIMUSET Academies, Universities Council, Russian Academy of Science, Siberian and Institutes Branch Irina Krayneva Scientific Research Institute of Restoration +7 (383) 330 73 52 “Spetsproektrestavratsiya” Altai State Pedagogical Academy Federal State Educational Institution of Higher ICOFOM 21, Dekabristov str. 55, Molodezshnaya str. Professional Education M. V. Lomonosov 190000 Saint Petersburg 656031 Barnaul Moscow State University Independent non-profit organization Scientific-research [email protected] http://www.uni-altai.ru Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, Institute ISO.MUSEUM General Director Vladimir Fomin [email protected] Leninskie Gory, 13/15, Baskakov lane, office 28N +7 (812) 312 12 62 Rector Vladimir Lopatkin 119991 Moscow 194014 Saint Petersburg Deputy General Director, Head of the Diagnostics +7 (8352) 62 95 39 http://www.msu.ru http://www.iso-museum.ru Department Vladimir Bubnov +7 (3852) 36 82 71 [email protected] [email protected] +7 (812) 315 25 45 Faculty of History Rector Viktor Sadovnichij Director Viacheslav Shestakov ICOM-CC [email protected] +7 (495) 939 10 00 Head of the Department of Historical and Cultural ICMAH, ICEE Heritage and Tourism Olga Truevtseva +7 (3852) 38 84 47 Orthodox Saint-Tikhonov Humanitarian University Professional magazines ICOFOM 5/2, bldg. 2, Bakhrushina str. and publishing houses 115184 Moscow Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts http://www.pstgu.ru/ Magazine “World of Museum” +7 (499) 143 49 88 17, Voroshilova str. [email protected] 650029 Kemerovo 5, Nizshnyia Syromyatnicheskaya str. Editor-in-Chief of the “Museum” Magazine Chair of restoration department Galina Klokova http://www.kemguki.ru 105120 Moscow Elena Medvedeva +7 (495) 953 22 89 [email protected] http://www.mirmus.ru CECA ICOM CC [email protected] [email protected] Rector E. Kudrina Editor-in-Chief Yury Pithchulin +7 (3842) 35 94 07 +7 (495) 916 09 39 Associate Professor of the Museology department ICOFOM Daria Rodionova +7 (3842) 73 28 08 Publishing House MOLOKH MPR, ICTOP 4A, Atarbekova str., office 63 107076 Moscow Moscow State Artistic and Industrial Academy http://www.moloch.ru S. G. Stroganov [email protected] 9, Volokolamskoe av. General Director Zoya Griazeva 125080 Moscow +7 (495) 963 57 86 http://mghpu.ru CAMOC +7 (499) 158 70 71 Publishing House “Panorama” Rector Sergey Kurasov Chair of History and Theory of Decorative 5/7, Rozshdestvenskaya str. Arts and Design Maria Maystrovskaya 103031 Moscow +7 (499) 158 68 58 http://www.panor.ru ICDAD [email protected], [email protected]

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Russian Academy for Retraining of Arts, Culture St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts Museology and Tourism Specialists 2, Dvortsovaya emb. 5, bldg. 1, Piataia Magistralnaia str. 191186 Saint Petersburg Department RSUH 123007 Moscow http://www.spbguki.ru/ http://www.aprikt.com/ [email protected] useology Department at RSUH (origi- Rector Denis Monastyrsky Rector Alexander Turgayev nally the Department of Museum Studies Head of Museology department Irina Kossova +7 (812) 312 93 48 Mat the Moscow State Institute for History and [email protected] Museology Department Archives) was founded in 1988, as one of the +7 (495) 940 02 49 [email protected] first departments in this field among universi- ICOFOM Museology and Cultural Heritage Section ties in Russia +7 (812) 314 11 36 Omsk State University named after F. M. Dostoevsky INTERCOM, ICOFOM, CAMOC Type of activity: education and scientific research 55 A, Mira av. 644077 Omsk The Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts Main research fields: museology, preserva- http://www.omsu.ru 4, Ordzhonikidze str. tion and study of all types of cultural heritage Rector Vladimir Strunin 677000 Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Head of Museology department Galina Patrusheva http://www.agiki.ru Main projects: Main partners: +7 (3812) 22 98 16 [email protected] • elaboration of educational standards for • Russian Institute for Cultural Research ICOFOM Rector Sarylgana Ignatieva the new generation programs in the field of • Likhachev Russian Research Institute of Vice-Chancellor of scientific work Uliana Vinokurova museology (as part of Bologna Process – Cultural and Natural Heritage The I. E. Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute +7 (4112) 34 44 60 adopting Bachelor’s and Master’s cycles) • Museology Department at Tomsk State of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture, Russian CECA • training of museum professionals University Academy of Arts • coordination of scientific-pedagogical high • Department of Museology and the study of 17, University emb. schools linked to museum professionals’ local lore at Yaroslavl State University 199034 Saint Petersburg training • Ostankino Museum-estate http://www.artsacademy.ru • opening of new educational programs in [email protected] the RSUH • publication of textbooks and research ICOM Committee ICFA, ICDAD, ICOFOM, Rector Semyon Mikhaylovsky papers on museology ICMAH, ICOM-CC, ICMS +7 (812) 323 61 89 Vice-Rector Yury Bobrov Russian State University for the Humanities +7 (812) 323 12 19 Moscow, 6 Miusskaya sq. ICOM-CC http://www.rsuh.ru [email protected] St. Petersburg State University +7 (499) 250 61 18 5, Mendeleevskaya lane Rector Efim Pivovar 199034 Saint Petersburg History of Art Faculty http://www.spbu.ru [email protected] [email protected] http://museolog.rsuh.ru Rector Nikolay Kropachev Head of Museology Department Associate professor of Museums and Monuments’ Anneta Sundieva, PhD, Docent Preservation Department Antonina Nikonova +7 (499) 250 68 82 +7 (812) 328 94 21 [email protected] ICOFOM

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was devoted to the personality and works of Main partners: The Perm National Fine Arts Foundations Petr Subbotin-Permyak – a Komi-Permyak Gallery The V. Potanin Charitable Foundation Charitable IRIS Foundation artist and enlightener. Among the most significant exhibition projects of the Foundation ICOM Committee INTERCOM 9, Bolshaya Yakimanka str. Moscow was the opening exhibition of the two artists – 119180 Moscow http://www.garageccc.ru Pavel Svedomsky and Aleksandr Svedomsky, http://www.fondpotanin.ru/ [email protected] which had had great public reaction in Perm. Head of the “First publication” program Director Alexander Barskiy Another large project organized together with Natalia Tolstaya CECA “New Collection” Foundation was “Soviet AVICOM Idealism” (2006). Owing to the Foundation, St. Petersburg Community Foundation “Videnie” exhibition took place at PERMM Treasures of Motherland Fund for Museums Support for the Promotion of Culture and the Arts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009. The Moscow Saint Peterburg Foundation has its own art collection: mainly [email protected] Main specialist on museum and exhibition these are works of contemporary Russian art Director Vladimir Marushchenko work Olga Savitskaya and works of Perm artists. Since 2010, «New +7 (495) 760 10 68 +7 (812) 230 03 66 Collection» Foundation has been cooperating ICFA ICFA with the Ural Office of National Center for Contemporary Arts. The Foundation became The Moscow European Club, Non-profit organization Organization “Society of Cultural Initiatives” an equal partner in implementation of “Port City” Alisa Prudnikova’s project. In March «Fund of cultural, educational and environmental 2, Kremlevskaya str., box 743 2012 the Foundation helped to arrange “(Un) initiatives “Green Carnation”» 420111 Kazan conditioned Reality. New Art of Perm”, exhi- 47, Myasnitskaya str., office 614 Director Alexander Ermakov bition at Erarta museum of contemporary art 107084 Moscow Vice director Vladimir Golovkov in Saint Petersburg as a part of “Russia in Fund of cultural projects support “New Collection” [email protected] [email protected] Erarta” project, which is aimed at populariza- Perm, Gazeti “Zvezda”, str. 5, room 201 President Vladimir Semenov +7 (843) 518 55 18 tion of the works of contemporary Russian art- [email protected] +7 (495) 771 56 87 CAMOC ists from different cities and regions of Russia Director Nadezhda Agisheva ICEE far from the metropolitan art stage +7 (342) 212 00 44 N. [email protected] New Collection Foundation also supports theatre

stablished in 2004 by Nadezhda and An- masterpiece of Perm wooden sculpture from drey Agishev Pashiya Church) was restored. An absolutely E new exclusive publication of “Perm Wooden Cultural organizations Type of activity: support of cultural projects Sculpture” book by Nikolay Serebrennikov Art Educational Center “Astrum” was done together with “Khudozhnik i Kniga” 1A, Pobedy sq. Main projects or exhibitions: Publishing House. “Kudymkor, Locomotive of The Foundation supports creative initiatives the Future” project was presented in 2009 at 121170 Moscow aimed at preservation and promotion of the the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary http://www.astrum-club.ru art and at the same time implements its own Art. That project won the first prize in “Cu- [email protected] projects. The most important programme ratorial Project” category at the “Innovation” Deputy Director of Education and Cultural is “Prochtenie”, which relates to the phe- 5th Annual All-Russian Awards in the Field of Action Elena Melentieva nomenon of Perm wooden sculpture. As a Contemporary Visual Art. Ekaterina Degot +7 (499) 148 56 10 part of this programme, “Christ in Prison” (a was the curator of the project. The project CECA

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Kemerovo Regional Art College +7 (495) 650 94 84 ICOFOM Sib & СAP 29, Shakhterov av. DEMHIST 650002 Kemerovo ounded in 2003 during the ICOFOM Chemal – Belokurikha (with students from [email protected] Picture Gallery of E. M. Lunin Annual meeting in Barnaul. Non-govern- Germany, 18 persons) Director Lyudmila Gubkina 36, Yubileynaya str. Fmental public regional organization in struc- • 2011 – Barnaul – Kemerovo – (with partici- +7 (3842) 64 07 75 Vologda region, Cherepovets ture of ICOFOM / ICOM pation of experts from the Peoples Republic ICFA http://www.lunin-gallery.ru of China, Hong Kong) +7 (8202) 23 48 05 Priority directions of scientific researches: • 2012 – Munich / Germany Moscow state institution “Experimental Social +7 (8202) 55 42 06 • Museology (history, theory, practice) Cultural Association. Museum of History Director Kulikova Olga • History of museum business Main partners: of Meshchansky district” • Cultural heritage • National University of Arts / Taiwan The State Lermontov Center – Museum-Estate • Objects of a world heritage of UNESCO • School of Philosophy Munich 16, bldg. 1, Mira av. in Serednikovo • Museums and tourism • Academy of the Nations / Munich 129010 Moscow Solnechnogorsk district, Post Firsanovka, village Mtsyri • Academy of Sciences of Mongolia http://www.gukesco.livejournal.com Last years’ main projects: • Institute of History of the Siberian Branch [email protected] 141421 Moscow region • ICOFOMSIB Symposium in Taiwan, of the Russian Academy of Science Director Olga Ivanova-Golitsina http://www.serednikovo.ru Shanghai/KNR • The Buryat Center of science of the Sibe- +7 (495) 608 92 16 Director Mikhail Lermontov • ICOFOMSIB & CAP Annual International rian Branch of the Russian Academy of ICOM-CC, DEMHIST [email protected] Museology schools: Science +7 (925) 871 50 52 • 2008 – Novosibirsk • Museums of Siberia Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO ICLM • 2009 – Barnaul 48, bldg. 1, Lyublinskaya str. • 2010 – Ulan-Ude (Republic Buryatiya) ICOM Committees ICOFOM 109387 Moscow Center for Art of Museum Exhibitions • 2011 – Barnaul – Talmenka – Vlasiha – +7 (495) 350 02 95 7A, bldg. 11-H, Lit. A, Karavannaya str., office 28 [email protected] 191011 Saint Petersburg General Director Alexander Lvov +7 (921) 908 74 02 +7 (812) 571 52 25, +7 (812) 570 00 97 Museology Committee of Siberia, the countries of Asia Chief conservator Nataliya Sinitsyna ICAMT and Pacific (ICOFOMSib&СAP) +7 (495) 350 12 58 ICOM-CC Russia, Altai Region, Barnaul, Molodegnayast, 55, Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg of. 321 Moscow Artists Union 38, Bolshaya Morskaya str. President Olga Truevtseva 5, Starosadsky lane 190000 Saint Petersburg +7 (385) 2 388 447 101000 Moscow +7 (812) 314 77 21 [email protected] http://artanum.ru/ ICAMT Research secretaries Vieregg Hildegard +7 (495) 621 17 36 +49 89 60 600 972 ICFA Detsky Museum Center of Kronshtadt [email protected] 57, Lenina av. Non-Profit-Making partnership 197760 Kronshtadt “The Russian Country Estate” Head Tatjana Arsenieva College of Music and Theatre Performances, no. 61 Director Elena Tratsevskaya 6, Glinischevskiy lane, office 66 [email protected] 125009 Moscow CAMOC 40B, Suzdalskaya str. Teacher of painting and drawing Vadim Gavrin http://www.rususadba.ru 111672 Moscow +7 (495) 703 25 61 [email protected] http://www.kmti.ru CECA +7 (495) 702 33 26 General Director Vera Sterlina

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Thanks for the support in making this booklet network begun in 2004. All the museums included in this network share the same idea of the museum content and design, but ALVASPETSSTROY COMPANY, all of them have their unique character and MUSEUM CREATION AND CONSULTING appearance. Museums on the hydroelectric stations are conceived as the open air museums. In addition to the traditional exposi- Hydropower engineering tion in museum’s buildings, they also imagine the exposition spaces on the station. Every project has planned an excursion route with What is the difference between the corporate museum in Uglich multiple viewing platforms. Today, there are museums and their mission in Russia com- he Hydropower engineering museum honour at the opening ceremony. And a del- 12 such expositions – on the Volga, Kama, pared to the foreign museums? is located in the ancient town of Uglich, egation of the participants of the 75th Annual Sulak, Zeya, Yenisei and Kuban rivers. In Overall, their missions and goals are compa- Tsurrounded by the Orthodox churches and Meeting of the International Commission for of parallel with preparing the exposition on rable, but in Russia a particular accent is put close to the Uglich Hydroelectric station. The Large Dams – hydro-engineers from Switzer- the hydroelectric stations, a virtual museum on educated future specialists. It is fascinat- museum resides in a two-storey building, for- land, France, Lesotho, Brazil, China, Belgium, is being created. It contains detailed 3D ing how one can guess what are the leading merly occupied by the Volgostroy (company) Canada, USA, Australia, Iran and other coun- (3-demensional) interactive models of every industries in the country just by looking the direction. After reconstruction works, the build- tries became the first visitors of the museum. already existing museum, founded in the themes of its corporate museums. In Rus- ing was transformed into a modern industrial framework of the program. This way, a visitor sia, for example, there is a large number of museum. The exhibition area is 1500 square Who is the main targeted audience for the of a Volga hydroelectric station can get familiar museums on the energetics and oil and gas meters and occupies 11 floors. The building museum? with the expositions in the Far East or in the industry. is also equipped with a cinema, a small con- The industrial museums are generally oriented Caucasus. ference-hall, a cozy café and a souvenir shop. on the youth – as potential future workers How are the museum funds collected? Is it and specialists. It explains why the edu- done by the museum professionals? General director of “AlvaSpetsStroy” (author cational function of such museums tend to A huge work of elaborating and collecting the of the concept and responsible for the realiza- become the key one. The museum organizes museum funds was done. An office of the first tion) – Kira Alexandrovna Sokolova – answers physics, geography, economics, history and hydroelectric station was renovated and put the questions. ecology classes and prepares a professional- into the central house. A whole exposition has profiled activity for teenagers “I’d like to be a been created about the history of the hydro- hydro-engineer… Let them teach me!” Sta- technical installation construction – without tistically, the most popular class for the 1–4 omitting the question of forced labour of the graders is “The properties and the impor- prisoners and the migrations of the populations tance of water” where kids answer the ques- from the flooded territories. Those subjects are tions walking down an excursion route. They being massively used as arguments against are also encouraged to carry out experiments constructing new hydroelectric stations. The on the play models. This way the museum museum possesses a unique collection of becomes a scientific laboratory where one Is the museification of the industrial heritage documents – original testimonies of the afore- can check out his knowledge and show his a part of the project? mentioned facts and events so that the visitor is talents. The main theme of the exposition is the his- invited to elaborate his own opinion on the true tory of the industrial technics and science. story of the hydroelectric stations construction. When was the museum opened? Is the Hydropower engineering museum in The original equipment, put in operation in The official opening was held on stthe 21 of Uglich one of a kind? the 40-s of the 20th century was dismantled What is the significance of multimedia in con- June 2007. Valentina Tereshkova, the first There is a whole series of museums on Rus- for the technical re-equipement and was in- ceiving such exposition? female cosmonaut and a Russian cosmonaut sian hydroelectric stations. The works of cluded into the exhibition. The diameter of a Namely the modern technological equip- Valery Tokarev were present As guests of the elaboration of a corporative expositions turbine wheel is equal 9 meter. ment helps to establish an effective dialogue

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with the young visitors as it presents itself as “AlvaSpetsStroy” Company communication on the level they are most Architectural and design bureaus 19, Smolachkova str. used to, the way that is the most natural and 194044, St. Petersburg understandable for them. The Uglich museum +7 (812) 313 61 61 Architectural is planning a major rearrangement of its exposition to introduce the newest technologies in the closest future. The existing ex- Creation of the museum and exposition ex- Studio of V. A. Gavrilov hibition will be enriched with game-like vir- hibitions, information centers, design of the tual elements using the technology of virtual corporate museums and centers for the com- reality. A new exposition will be created which munication with publics. Among clients: State will allow the visitors to go on a virtual tour in- company “Rosatom”, company “RusHydro”, side the hydroelectric generator of the Uglich JSC “Power machines”- “LMZ”, JSC “Admi- hydroelectric station. ralty shipyard”, JSC “Russian railways”, JSC “TGK-1”, company “Lukoil” and other major How do you imagine your museum in the pro- enterprises from multiple industrial sections. filed exhibitions and festivals? How do intend The company has possesses own human to share your experiences? resources and production capacities. These Every year the museum participates in the in- conditions allow it to perform a full volume of ternational event “Museum Night” and in 2012 work – starting from the project elaboration to a new exposition “Renewable energy” will be its realization. “AlvaStetsStroy” also develops opened for the International Museum Day. a charitable activity which has been noticed In 2011 the Uglich museum was of the five and distinguished with numerous awards and finalists on the Sienkiewicz National tourism diplomas, including a Gold Honorary Mark National Museum of Local History named Award for the Best regional museum. In 2012 “Public recognition”. Since 2009 – perma- ounded in 1991 after L. R. Kyzlasov the museum representatives participated in nent partner of ICOM Russia F the “Educational programs for schoolkids” Type of activity: comprehensive architectural, Main partners: workshops in the Copernicus Center in War- design and planning services • Museum of the World ocean saw, Poland (a contest organized by the • Museum – the ethnographic complex Dmitry Zimin “Dynasty” foundation). The 152615, Yaroslavl region, Uglich, Spasskaya str., 33 Main research fields: museum design “Dagestanskii aul” (Dagestan village) museum is also an active participant in the +7 (48532) 2 40 66 • Krasnodar regional Art museum of a name municipal and regional events and festivals. www.hydromuseum.ru Last years’ main projects: of F. A. Kovalenko • Participation in the All-Russia museum • Khakass National Museum of Local His- Festival “Intermuseum”, 2006, 2010 tory named after L. R. Kyzlasov • Participation in the Internationa museum Festival “Intermuseum”, 2011 ICOM Committee ICAMT th • Participation in 13 International festival Federal State Budgetary Institution “Days of architecture”, Krasnodar, 2009 191069, Saint Petersburg, Sadovaya Str., 18 • Participation in Architectural review- [email protected] competition “ARCHITEKTON”, 2009–2011 www.nlr.ru • Participation in the International festival “ZODCHESTVO-2011” Director Anton V. Likhomanov • Project of reconstruction and enlarging +7 (812) 310 28 56 of the Museum of World Ocean building, [email protected] Kaliningrad. Completed in 2003 International contacts Elena B. Bokhonskaya • Project of a new building for Khakass +7 (812) 310 98 50 [email protected]

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Creative Architectural Workshop B. Beider «Museum – Design» Studio Saint Petersburg Head Boris Beider ype of activity: art design and realization [email protected] Tof exhibitions and museum projects +7 (812) 314 89 39 ICAMT ICOM Committees ICDAD, ICAMT “Museum – Design” Studio MUSEUM PARTNERS Moscow, Matrosa Zhelezniaka blv., 10-2 +7 (495) 450 15 89 Electronic Archive Corporation Limited liability corporation “INTMEDIA.RU” [email protected] 12A, Petovsko-Razumovskaya alley 3, Kholodilny lane Director Alexander Konov 127083 Moscow 115191 Moscow [email protected] http://www.elar.ru/ http://www.intmedia.ru International contacts Svetlana Zinovyeva General Director Evgeny Kovalenko Deputy Director Tatiana Fialkova [email protected] Chief of the Museum Department [email protected] Liudmila Morozkina +7 (495) 221 26 45 Saint Petersburg Institute [email protected] AVICOM +7 (495) 792 31 31 of Architecture CIDOC onceptual sector designing/projecting museum complex in Ukha city, Museum of of museums and museum expositionson Contemporary Arts and storagesfor the SRM KAMIS Cthe basis of recent archievements.Since 1988 ICOM Committee ICAMT Display design for the State Russian Museum ince 2003 (SRM), Popov museum of Communication in S St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Museum of the Elaboration and implementation of an inte- History of religion, Museum of Glass in the grated automatic system of museum informa- complex of Elagin palace tion (KAMIS). The KAMIS system provides a complex solution for main museum concerns Renovation of the Museum complex of SRM according to the Ministry of Culture of the Rus- (Mikhalovskiy garden – Mikhalovskiy castle) sian Federation requirements: account and custody, restoration, cataloguing, prepara- Projectof a museum of the World Oceanin tion of exhibitions, development of databases Kaliningrad and its exhibitions, Historical and for the visitors. of MAE RAN: photo-prints, glass plates, Organization with limited liability “The Saint Petersburg Director Oleg Romanov Projects negative and positive films, postcards and Institute of Architecture” (SPb IA) +7 (812) 713 00 64 • Automatic photo-depository for Russian sketches 190103, Saint Petersburg, [email protected] Academy of Science department “Anthro- • Electronic exposition of the Museum of 12 – Krasnoarmeiskaya str., 16 Executive secretary Elena Zaitzeva pology and Ethnography museum named Nature and Man in the Khanty-Mansiysk +7 (812) 713 09 71 [email protected] after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) with city. Electronic exposition integrated with www.gia.spb.ru International contactsIlinUuriyLvovitch an on-line catalogue. Unique on-line the real exposition and with the KAMIS [email protected] [email protected] catalogue including digitized image fund museum system

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