Khabarovsk Regional Museum, Khabarovskiy kray, Russia
The Khabarovsk Museum was opened on April 19, 1894 in the presence of the city’s public, representatives of the troops, scientific intelligentsia and higher ranks. Like any new business in those days, the opening was accompanied by a prayer service. The first museum exposition was located in the premises of the chemist’s warehouse along the street. Tikhmenevskaya (now Serysheva), which was administered by Vasily Nikolayevich Radakov, a military medical inspector of the Amur Region, an enthusiastic ornithologist, a staunch supporter of a museum in Khabarovsk.
It was Vasily Nikolaevich who was elected the first director of the museum, and a year later he was succeeded by Vasily Petrovich Margaritov, a district inspector of schools, a researcher of archeology and ethnography of the Amur region.
The first museum collections were formed from numerous donations of active members of the Priamursky Department of the Geographical Society and city residents. Thus, V.N. Radakov gave the museum a scientifically processed ornithological collection, S.A. Monkovsky – a collection of insects, MS. Vvedensky – herbarium. And in the future, the collection of the museum collection was carried out at the expense of receipts from the administration, Khabarovsk teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs.
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