City history museum of Kokshetau
The museum settles down in an ancient part of a city along Chapaev str.,
32. In this district, at the bottom of the hills, on the bank of lake
Kopa the birth of Kokshetau in the first quarter of the19 centuries
began. The museum building is a monument of history and is under state
protection. In the end of 19 and at beginning of 20 centuries here there
lived a family of the future statesman of the Soviet epoch of
V.V.Kujbyshev. In days of the Great Patriotic War in this house settled
down the rear hospital for wounded soldiers of the Soviet army. After
war in there has been opened V.V.Kujbyshev's museum which in 2000 has
been reorganised in a city history Museum. You can find in chronological
sequence the basic marks of history of Kokshetau in a museum
exposition, since the moment of its basis in 1824 and on the present.
Museum funds store more than 11 thousand exhibits. Among museum exhibits
the most interesting to visitors is the car of the American mark
"Cadillac", a bicycle of DM of "Durkopp", dated the beginning of the 20
centuries, and also ancient kinds of a cartage - winter sledge and a
summer droshky.