Old Uralsk

The People's Museum “Old Uralsk” was created in 2003 at the initiative of the museum’s trustee Natalya Akimovna Sladkova (02/14/1950, Uralsk- 09/04/2014, Uralsk ) ^{[1] [2] [3]} . The beginning of the history of the museum was the local history exhibition "Old Uralsk", which opened on January 17, 2003 in the premises of the Optima bookstore. Her exposition presented items from the personal collections of a number of local historians and local historians who tell about the history of Uralsk, as well as paintings by the famous Ural artist Nikolai Mikushkin. Originally designed for 10 days, the exhibition aroused so much public interest that it was repeatedly extended. As a result, a permanent museum exposition ^{[4] [5]} was formed on its base, which was located in the annex to the building of the 1910 bank built ^[6] .

The museum staff consisted of local historians, local historians and writers, representatives of the urban community and the business community of Uralsk : A. Kurlapov, I. Bryndin, Alexei Chistyakov, Yuri Asmanov, Nikolai Chesnokov ^[7] , A. Tregubov, Alexander Yalfimov , Vladimir Kutishchev, Andrei Matushkin, E. Efremov and others. The museum’s director was a local historian, collector Gennady Mukhin ^{[8] [9]} .

In 2005, the Old Uralsk Public Fund was established, which to some extent provided legal conditions for the museum’s activities ^[10] .

The museum operates on a voluntary basis. Excursions at the museum are free.

On May 4, 2018, for the great contribution to the preservation of Russian culture and historical heritage in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the collective of the Old Uralsk public cultural and educational foundation was awarded the thanks of the President of Russia V.V. Putin ^{[11] [12]} .

The museum’s exposition is located in several halls and consists of exhibits donated to the museum or acquired by the Fund at the expense of benefactors.

Each of the halls of the museum has its own specifics. The first hall is dedicated to the old look of Uralsk , preserved not only in photographs, but also in the current historical buildings. A special place is occupied by the exposition dedicated to the heroes and participants of the Great Patriotic War , natives of the Urals ^[13] . In the central hall there are models of architectural monuments destroyed in Soviet times - the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Church, the Arc de Triomphe and the station building. The last hall presents unique exhibits belonging to the Russian writer and playwright Valerian Pravdukhin ^[6] .

The museum has an archaeological department, represented by monuments of ancient cultures in the West Kazakhstan region - ceramics, bones of fossil animals. The collections of Orthodox icons and salaries, Old Believers and local history books, paintings, furniture and home decoration, household items, numismatics are extensive. The museum has a rich collection of old photographs of Uralsk and photographs of the Urals from 1880-1950. A significant part of the exhibits represents the military history of the region ^[6] .

Community Activities

In 2005, together with the Eurasian Scientists Foundation, museum staff initiated the restoration of a number of religious buildings of the Ural Diocese ^[14] , including the Church of St. John the Forerunner (Uralsk), the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Serebryakovo village), the church of St. Alexander Nevsky (the village of Maly Chagan), the Peter and Paul Church (the village of Skvorkino), the Church of the Nativity (the village of Kolovertny) ^[15] , the church of Mary Magdalene (Mergenevo), the church (the village of Kotelny), burned in the 1990s.

In 2013, the museum staff took charge of events dedicated to the 400th anniversary of Uralsk ^[16] .

In 2014, a monument to the writer Nikita Savichev was erected in the center of Uralsk on his street ^[17] . The monument was made with public funds, the collection of which was initiated by the management of the museum "Old Uralsk" ^[18] .

In 2016, the founders of the fund have repeatedly expressed concern about the onomastic policy of the region and advocated the preservation of the historical names of onomastic objects ^[19] .

In 2018, the Old Uralsk Foundation, as part of the implementation of the ideas of the message of the President of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev “Rukhani Zhangyru”, transferred the historical and cultural project “Eurasian Urbanism of Old Uralsk” to the administration of “Rukhani Zhangyru” ^{[20] of the} regional akimat of the West Kazakhstan Region The successful implementation of which will allow us to collect and summarize documentary materials on the history of urban planning and city architecture, to restore the appearance and some interiors of urban buildings and structures, the architectural appearance of the old Urals ka ^{[21] [22] [23] [24]} .

Publishing

The fund is engaged in publishing activities ^[25] , issuing books of historical and regional studies in the series “Ural Library” ^[26] .

In 2018 there are 77 of them, including works by contemporary authors: Gennady Doronin ^[27] , Nikolai Chesnokov ^[28] , Yuri Asmanov and others, as well as reprint pre-revolutionary publications by Iosaf Zheleznov , Nikita Savichev , Nikolai Borodin , Peter Simon Pallas ^[29] .

The museum regularly holds presentations of published literature and other events ^[30] .

Selected Works of the Ural Library Series

• Tregubov A.G. From Gugni to Tolstov: atamans of the Sticky Cossack army and punished atamans of the Ural Cossack army. - Uralsk: Optima, 2003.
• Chesnokov N.G. On the domes of centuries a glare (Uralsk a hundred years ago). - Uralsk: Optima, 2003.
• Yalfimov A.P. Kazachiy norov .. - Uralsk: Optima, 2003. - 171 p.
• Asmanov Yu. I. Notes of an old newspaperman. - Ed. 2nd additional .. - Uralsk: Optima, 2005. - 220 p. - ISBN ISBN 9965-9370-9-5 .
• Kurlapov A. Kureni: the history of antiquity and the Middle Ages of the Yaik-Ural River Valley. - Uralsk: Optima, 2005 .-- 270 p. - ISBN 9965-9370-2-8 .
• Scherbanov N. I went to Uralsk. - 2nd ed. with additional .. - Uralsk: Optima, 2006. - 168 p. - ISBN 9965-9370-7-9 .
• Doronin G.N. Bersharal. - Uralsk: Optima, 2006.