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In the city of Vorkuta of the Komi Republic there is the famous Vorkuta interdistrict museum of local lore, located at 38 Lenin Street. The museum was founded on July 12, 1959, but the opening took place on May 3, 1960 according to the decision of the Executive Committee of the City Council of Working People's Deputies of the city of Vorkuta dated April 28, 1959.

The very first exhibitions of the Museum of Local Lore told about the geology of the native land, civil and industrial construction, the coal mining industry, the development of everyday, cultural and scientific areas of society.

Between 1963 and 1964, the museum staff prepared a stationary exhibition entirely devoted to the theme of nature. The next year, a unique art gallery was opened, part of the museum itself. In 1966, numerous visitors of the local history museum got acquainted with the stationary exposition of the historical department, which was attended by the respected scientist L.A. Bratsev and the discoverer of a coal deposit in the Vorkuta region G.A. Chernov. It is important that 1966 was fruitful in terms of cooperation, because it was then that the popular Lenin Museum, which conducts its activities and works on a voluntary basis at school No. 11, became part of the Vorkuta Interdistrict Museum as a branch. Today this museum department is located in a village called Vorgashor and is an exposition "Native North - Man and Nature", located in two halls: "Ethnographic Hall" and "Nature of the Region".

The local history museum has developed a justification for the boundaries of the study of the Vorkuta region within the framework of the previously operating Pechora district, in which during the late 19th - early 20th centuries not only full-fledged economic ties, but also ethnocultural respectful relations between Russians, Komi, and also Nenets were formed.

On December 17, 1968, the Council of Ministers of the Komi Republic issued an order that the Vorkuta Regional Museum of Local Lore, due to a significant increase in the volume of work related to a thorough study of the zone of distribution of the Far North, receives the status of an interdistrict museum.

In the fall of 1990, the museum opened a new spacious exhibition hall, the total area of which was 360 square meters. Talented artists of the city of Vorkuta had a unique opportunity to fully present their work as part of annual exhibitions in their hometown.

It should be noted that the museum funds keep a unique collection of old programs and theatrical posters of the Musical and Drama Theater of the city Vorkuta, which was created on the basis of the Gulag during the 1940-1950s. Valuable exhibits were the filing of a local newspaper called "Zapolyarnaya Kochegarka" (40-50s of the 20th century), historical objects telling about VorkutLag - a kind of chess made from crumb of bread, handmade greeting cards, as well as items and accessories camp life. The art collection presented in the museum includes about seven hundred items. Foundations are no less rich dedicated to rare ethnographic exhibits.

2000 was especially fruitful for the local history museum, because, together with the Memorial branch of the city of Vorkuta, the museum was awarded a grant from the Soros Foundation, which was carried out under a program called "Civil Law" within the framework of the project “Lessons from the past are for the edification of the future.”

Due to the fact that the Vorkuta Museum of Local Lore has the status of an inter-district museum, it has represented the culture and life of the native land since antiquity. The hall dedicated to nature gives an extensive view of the unique fauna of the native land. The history room tells about the development of the region from the point of view of industry.

At the moment the following excursions are available in the museum: "Ancient Pechora Territory", "Animal world of the tundra", "Vorkuta in the 1930s", "Front Vorkuta",

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