Top 10 History Museums in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberian District

March 15, 2022 Esmeralda Fenner

Irkutsk Oblast (Russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is the city of Irkutsk. Population: 2,428,750 (2010 Census).
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1. National Museum of Ust-Ordynsk Buryatsk Region

Lenian, 6A, Ust-Ordynsky 669001 Russia +7 395 413-14-02 [email protected] http://mus38.ucoz.ru/
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5.0 based on 2 reviews

National Museum of Ust-Ordynsk Buryatsk Region

2. Historical Mineralogy Museum

Babushkina, 20, Slyudyanka 665904 Russia +7 914 906-75-95 https://museum-1305.business.site/
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Historical Mineralogy Museum

our Museum presents the wealth of mineral resources of the Eastern Sayan and Baikal. only in our Museum! you will see the exposure: the nature of the artist nature sculptor learn: their stones-talismans, which protect you from trouble, and as they help to improve your health and personal life. What riches keep the bowels of our region,and their role in life human, and in the economy.

3. Irkutsk Regional Memorial Decembrists Museum, Volkonsky House

Volkonskogo ul., d. 10, Irkutsk 664007 Russia +7 395 220-75-32 [email protected] http://www.imd38.ru/
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4.5 based on 287 reviews

Irkutsk Regional Memorial Decembrists Museum, Volkonsky House

Irkutsk Decembrists museum, founded in 1970, includes Sergey Volkonsky’s and Sergey Trubetskoy’s homesteads. Authentic items of the Decembrist families are represented in the historical interiors of the houses. Volkonsky house was built in 1838 in the style of classical noble mansions, with elements of Siberian wooden architecture. The homestead consists of servants house, stable, carriage house, barn, cattle shed and well. The house itself has a permanent exposition "The Volkonsky Family in the Siberian exile", reflecting the traditions and life of the noble family. The Volkonsky House is known as one of the most interesting memorial museums in Russia. Its appearance and interior, a complex of manor buildings makes up organic whole, conveys the color of the epoch and the atmosphere of the aristocratic way of life in the middle of the 19th century. The museum offers a diverse program for visitors, including those with disabilities: excursions, literary and musical evenings.

Reviewed By gmshaw2015 - Camarillo, United States

The Decembrists' story comes alive while touring the house and grounds, how a group of army officers returning to Russia after campaigns in Europe sought to inject a modicum of liberal democracy into Tsarist Russia, and were rewarded by hard labor in Siberia. Wives and families followed the men, and brought with them St. Petersburg couture. Very interesting.

4. Irkutsk Town History Museum

Chaikovskogo ul., d. 5, Irkutsk 664029 Russia +7 395 238-10-20
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4.5 based on 12 reviews

Irkutsk Town History Museum

5. Local Lore Museum

Karla Marksa St., 67, Ust-Ilimsk 666686 Russia +7 395 353-06-08 http://илимскиймузей.рф
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Local Lore Museum

6. Irkutsk Regional Historical and Memorial Museum of Decembrists

Dzerzhinskogo St., 64, Irkutsk 664007 Russia +7 395 229-26-63 [email protected] http://www.imd38.ru
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Irkutsk Regional Historical and Memorial Museum of Decembrists

Reviewed By saronic - Zurich, Switzerland

Of the two Decembrist Houses to be visited in Irkutsk this is the smaller one, but the one with more historical information about this reformist movement that was of such importance for Eastern Siberia in every aspect: culturally, socially, scientifically, economically. Its origin was the failed rebellion in St.Petersburg against Tsar Nicholas I on December 26th, 1826 (thus called 'Decembrists'). The leaders, most of them army officers from the nobility, were either executed or their death sentence commuted to 20 years 'katorga' (penal labor) and life long banishment to Siberia. Their 'crime' was to ask for the abolition of serfdom and for a constitutional monarchy. Some of the deported were followed by their wives. The first one to do this was Yekaterina, a born countess Laval, who joined her husband Prince Sergey Trubetskoy into exile. After the 'katorga' sentence was over and since they couldn't return to European Russia, many of the Decembrists decided to settle in Irkutsk. At least until 1856, with the amnesty of the new tsar Alexander II, when most of them left Siberia. Prince Trubetskoy, who in the meantime had lost his wife, with whom he had 8 children born in Siberia, went to live his last years in Moscow, where he wrote his memoirs. The small Manor House we see, built of wood in an eclectic style - windows with arches, windows without arches, oriel windows, decorative elements in baroque - was the house of one of the Trubetskoy daughters. The house her parents lived in burned down in the beginning of the 20th century. There is a combined ticket for both museums (300 RUB). I would recommend to start with this museum, since there are more information boards (in Russian and English) about the Decembrists than at the grander Volkonsky House.

7. Angarsk Village Architectural and Ethnographic Museum im. O. Leonova

Vilyui Federal Highway, Bratsk 665712 Russia +7 395 340-95-81 [email protected] http://bratskmuseum.ru/about/filials/angara/
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Angarsk Village Architectural and Ethnographic Museum   im.  O. Leonova

8. Museum of the History of Mirabilite

Komsomolsky prospekt, d. 79, Usolye-Sibirskoe 665450 Russia +7 395 434-47-18
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4.5 based on 9 reviews

Museum of the History of Mirabilite

9. Nizhneudinsk Museum of History and Local Lore

Lenina ul., d. 27, Nizhneudinsk 665106 Russia +7 395 174-26-56
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4.5 based on 6 reviews

Nizhneudinsk Museum of History and Local Lore

10. Museum of Urban Life

Dekabrskikh Sobytiy st., 77, Irkutsk 664007 Russia +7 395 238-08-99 http://irkmuseum.ru/museum/branches/branch-4
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Museum of Urban Life

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