Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrainka (Yalta) - located in Yalta , Crimea , the house-museum of the outstanding Ukrainian poetess and cultural figure Lesya Ukrainka . Located at: Yalta, st. Catherine 8. The director of the museum is currently Olesya Visich, the scientific curator is Svetlana Kocherga.
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History
For the first time L.Ukrainka arrived in Yalta in 1897, then she again visited the Crimea - Yalta, Alushta, Sevastopol - in early 1907. In August 1907, she moved to Yalta with her husband, Kliment Kvitka, and stayed here almost two years. In Crimea, she created a number of poems and other literary works (the dramatic poem Aisha and Mohammed, the poem Kassandra, and the dramatic poem On Ruins).
An initiative group to create a museum of a poetess in Yalta was created back in the early 1970s, to the centenary of the birth of L.Ukrainka. In particular, it included one of her students, a researcher in the field of winemaking Nikolai Okhrimenko. As a result, a monument to the poetess was erected in the city and a memorial plaque was erected on the building where she lived in 1897. However, in general, the work on creating the museum of L.Ukrainka was not completed then; a branch of the Yalta Museum of Local Lore was opened in the building with the exposition "The Museum of Pre-revolutionary Progressive Russian and Ukrainian Culture." In 1991, the exhibition "Les Ukrainka and Crimea" was opened in this museum (to the 120th anniversary of the poetess). On September 10, 1993, at the request of the Ukrainian public organization "Enlightenment" ("Enlightenment"), the Yalta City Executive Committee gives the exhibition the status of a museum - as a branch of the Yalta State Historical and Literary Museum.
On the basis of the Lesya Ukrainka Museum in Yalta, the first school in the city with teaching in the Ukrainian language was formed. Museum premises serve as additional classrooms for students of the Crimean State Humanitarian Institute. At the museum was created the national amateur theater "Seven Muses", a large library on the history and development of Ukrainian culture was assembled.