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The city of Kostomuksha traces its history back to the appearance of an iron ore deposit in the 1970s. The plant was built by 1984. According to the statistics of the Expert magazine, the Karelsky Okatysh plant is on the list of 200 largest enterprises in Russia, 30 leading companies in the North-West and 20 best ferrous metallurgy plants in terms of the number of products sold. It became the main city-forming enterprise of the city, the population of which is now 29 738 people. Therefore, it is not surprising that the museum of the city of Kostomuksha was opened as a museum of a mining and processing plant. It began its activity in 1981, having the status of a public museum, and in 1991 it became a municipal one. The collection is based on materials dedicated to the discovery of an iron ore deposit, the construction of a plant, construction of the city. Collections of Karelian writers occupy a significant part The museum is located in the cultural and museum complex of Kostomuksha. The building was reconstructed in 2006.

The main direction is local history, historical. The museum houses the following collections: "Discovery of the Kostomuksha iron ore deposit", "Construction of a city and a combine", "Collection of the writer Y. Rugoev", "Materials about war veterans and partisans."

Every year the museum is visited more than 3.5 thousand people. The museum employs 3 people, one of them is a researcher. The museum covers an area of 200 sq. m. The archive contains 250 exhibits. There are 3291 exhibits in the main fund.

The Museum organizes annual exhibitions, at least 7-8 per year, the partners of the museum also organize annual exhibitions: Customs, Center for extracurricular activities, Kostomuksha Nature Reserve, Lennrot Institute (Finland). Artists of Karelia, photo artists, students of the children's art school named after Leo Lankinena.

Game programs are also held: "Visiting the Karelian village", "Memorial day V.Ya. Rugoev "," Day of Memory and Mourning for Victory Day. " In addition, excursions are held in Kostomuksha and the mining and processing plant, as well as in the village of Voknavolok, which is famous for its rune singers. It was founded in the 17th century and is located on the shores of Lake Upper Kuito, not far from the town of Kostomuksha (50 kilometers). It is considered one of the most national villages in Karelia. It was here that many of the Kalevala runes were written by the Finnish writer Elias Lennrot, as well as ancient houses have been preserved, which are now cultural monuments.

A tour of the mining and processing enterprise allows you to see the scale of this largest combine in the North-West of Russia. Now the enterprise ranks third in Russia in terms of the production of iron ore pellets; it produces a fifth of these products in the Russian Federation. The main consumer of the products of the plant is the metallurgical plant "Severstal", in the city of Cherepovets in the Vologda region. But the Kostomuksha plant also exports its products to the USA, Great Britain, China, and the Netherlands. The plant is now successfully increasing its capacities.

You can visit the observation deck in the quarry, get acquainted with all the technological processes at the plant. At the end of the excursion, you can take a small Karelian iron ore pellet as a souvenir,

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