Museum of Sailors

Small provincial Totma is the native land of sailors, who discovered unknown to Europe Commander and Aleutian islands. More than two hundreds years ago Totma’s people began to equip to Siberia trading caravans, cargoed with salt. Twenty expeditions to America - the fifth part of all known – were equipped by Totma’s people. One of galliots, floated to Alaska, was called "Totma".

Merchants who came back home endowed their incomes to the construction of temples. Owing to their wanderings the city is famous now for its special "Totma" style of the church architecture. So in 1996 the Museum of Sailors was opened. It is located on the ground floor of Jerusalem’s Church (1774 - 1790), which was also built on money of Totma’s merchants - sailors Grigory and Peter Panovs, in style of a baroque.

The basic exposition material is presented by three themes:
- history of origin and becoming of the Russian fleet, since Peter time;
- Totma’s merchants – sailors and their navigations to Pacific Ocean at the second half of XVIII century;
- Totma’s people - participants of Great Patriotic war and the contemporaries served on Northern, Baltic, Pacific and Black Sea fleet, revival of sea traditions in Totma.