The Zavodoukovsk Museum of Local History

The museum was founded in 1989. Thorough work of a group of enthusiasts, who has collected and systematized historical data over three hundred years, preceded the museum.

The exposition of the museum is dedicated to the farmers’ life-style, local nature, the fate of the town during World War II, and to the people whose life was indispensable from the town development.

The history of the museum is closely connected with the history of education and enlightenment in Zavodoukovsk. At the end of the XIXth century, a primary school was opened here on donations of the Tyumen merchant V. Kolmakov. An agricultural museum was founded at the school, which was an outstanding event for a deep provincial district.

In 1935 the first secondary school was opened. The teachers of the school were the first to undertake efforts to compile a collection of local exhibits, and to get the history of the town systematized. The museum contains the names of those selfless people.

In 1989 a decision was taken to found the Zavodoukovsk local museum, but the newly-founded museum had no premises of its own. In 1994 a wooden house in the central part of the town, on Sibirskaya street, was given up to the museum.

Over the first years of functioning the museum staff had been collecting exhibits out of the archives in Tyumen, Tobolsk, Omsk, and Ekaterinburg. A lot of new exhibits were provided by the local residents. The museum’s archive contains rare photos, historical documents, and arts pieces related to the history of Zavodoukovsk.