Since 2002, the Museum of Local Lore has been housed in a two-story brick building erected by the Kainsk merchant of the 1st guild I. A. Levako in 1911. There was a store offering various goods on the ground floor, and the merchant’s family lived on the second floor. During the Russian Civil War, the headquarters of the counterintelligence of the White Army was located there. With the advent of Soviet power, starting in 1919, the building housed the District Komsomol Committee, a Zhenotdel (the women’s department of the Central Committee) and the first gym in the town. In addition, there was the OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate, later renamed the NKVD) and afterward — the editorial office and printing house of the local newspaper “The Banner of Stakhanovets”, the town bank, a men’s and women’s clothing store.
Since 2014, the exhibition hall of the Museum Complex is located at the house of the Kainsk resident A.V Pyatkov, built at the beginning of the 20th century. It houses the exposition “The Town of Kainsk — Kuybyshev. 1914–1991”, a permanent exhibition “The Sporting Glory of Our Countrymen” and two open storage facilities: “Furniture of the late 19th — second half of the 20th centuries” and “Television and Radio Equipment of the 1940s–1990s”.
In the one-story wooden house (built in 1898), where a prominent party figure Valerian Kuybyshev lived during his Kainsk exile, his memorial house-museum was opened on August 9, 1947. The main task of the museum was to promote the life and work of Valerian Kuybyshev. In 2004, the house-museum became part of the Museum Complex of Kuybyshev. At the beginning of the 21st century, the museum’s exposition was supplemented with the sections “Kainsk — the Town of Political Exile” and “Political Repressions of the 1920s–1950s on the Territory of the Region”.
Since 2014, the exhibition hall of the Museum Complex is located at the house of the Kainsk resident A.V Pyatkov, built at the beginning of the 20th century. It houses the exposition “The Town of Kainsk — Kuybyshev. 1914–1991”, a permanent exhibition “The Sporting Glory of Our Countrymen” and two open storage facilities: “Furniture of the late 19th — second half of the 20th centuries” and “Television and Radio Equipment of the 1940s–1990s”.
In the one-story wooden house (built in 1898), where a prominent party figure Valerian Kuybyshev lived during his Kainsk exile, his memorial house-museum was opened on August 9, 1947. The main task of the museum was to promote the life and work of Valerian Kuybyshev. In 2004, the house-museum became part of the Museum Complex of Kuybyshev. At the beginning of the 21st century, the museum’s exposition was supplemented with the sections “Kainsk — the Town of Political Exile” and “Political Repressions of the 1920s–1950s on the Territory of the Region”.
