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Оренбургская Гауптвахта

Оренбург, RU

Оренбургская Гауптвахта

The Museum of Orenburg History is a municipal and local history museum in Orenburg. It is located in a historical building from the mid-19th century, which is a monument of federal significance. It was opened in 1983 as a department of the pre-Soviet period of Russian history in the Orenburg Governo

r's Local Lore and History Museum. In 1989, it became an independent Museum of Orenburg History. The museum's main exhibition showcases the city's founding, the Peasants' War led by Yemelyan Pugachev, Alexander Pushkin's stay in Orenburg, and the life of Orenburg residents from the 19th to the early 20th century. The Museum of Orenburg History has several branches in the city, mostly of a memorial nature. These include the Museum of Taras Shevchenko's guardhouse, the Museum Apartment of Yuri and Valentina Gagarin, the House of Memory, the Museum of Cosmonautics, and the Orenburg Museum of Defenders of the Fatherland named after General M.G. Chernyaev. Previously, the Museum of Orenburg History was a subdivision of the Museum Apartment of Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich.

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