History Museum of the city of Ulan-Ude, Buryatiya Republits, Russia
To follow the development stages of Ulan-Ude, the capital of our republic it is important to visit Historical Museum of Ulan-Ude placed in merchant I. Goldobin’s house. The museum is a retrospective historical and cultural show of main development stages of our city – from an «ostrog» to a capital city. Master plans will acquaint you with the town planning history, creative work of architects L. Minert and A. Vampilov, authors of the Victory avenue and the airport, the reconstruction project of the Square of Soviets and other objects, that were preserved in our city.
Museum’s expositions introduce to visitors famous and little known citizens, their activity, the way of life of merchants, bourgeois, and middle-class people. Passing by the show cases one can’t but rest one’s eyes on receipts, invoices, bills, credit tickets that got grey and yellow with the time and are clear evidences of the fact that our city is a trading and distribution center of the whole Eastern Siberia. You may learn about what was traded from the exhibition reconstructed by the memoirs of Mikhail Tanskoy. Individual objects with labels add to reconstructing the atmosphere of those years. Everybody is a welcome guest in our museum.
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