V.M. Komarov District Museum of History and Local Lore

The museum was founded on December 30, 1971. The founder of the Volchikhinsky District Museum of History and Local Lore is an amazing person, an Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, an honorary resident of Volchikha village, a local historian, Vladimir Maksimovich Komarov. Vladimir Maksimovich's knowledge of the history of his district is vast. He has written several books on the history of the village and its people.

The first exhibits of the district history and local lore museum were a clay jug, a partisan pike from the Civil War, a soldier's pot, and a flask from the Great Patriotic War. The exhibits were kept in a large closet in the school cloakroom. The idea of preserving all these amazing exhibits for posterity came to a school history teacher, who shared it with his students. And the work began. They found antiques everywhere, and the main assistants in the search were, of course, the residents of the Volchikhinsky district and schoolchildren.

At first, from the autumn of 1971, the museum was located in the building of an abandoned office of Zagotskot, which the students, together with their beloved teacher, renovated themselves. But gradually the fund began to be replenished with exhibits that no longer fit in the small building. And then the people of Volchikha, all together, built a building on the central square of the village, the project of which was developed by the chief architect of the district, Leonid Ivanovich Kuzin, where our museum has been located since 1979.