Narymsky museum of political exile. History of creation and formation

This article is devoted to process creation and formation of the museum in the village of Narym of Parabelsky district of the Tomsk region. The village of Narym, first of all, is known as a place of exile of the Decembrists, participants of the Polish uprising, Bolsheviks, special settlers. The history of the museum originates since 1938 when the Novosibirsk regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) has made decisions on creation in the village of Narym of I.V. Stalin's museum. The establishment of the museum was not accidental, in 1912 I.V. Djugashvili was exiled to Narym, where he arrived on July 22, and on the first of September made an escape. The museum was opened on June 27, 1948, the exposition was dedicated to the life and work of I.V. Stalin. Except the museum building the exposition included the house of Alekseev at whom I.V. Stalin, with completely recreated situation of that time lived in exile. The changes that took place after the 20th Congress of the CPSU touched upon the Narym Museum. In 1956 it has been closed, and the memorial museum of political - exiled of Bolsheviks has opened again in 1960 under the name. The exposition was dedicated to the Bolsheviks exiled to the Narym region, practically all the materials about IV. Stalin was removed from the exposition. In 1991 the museum began to be called - the Narymsky museum of political exile. The reason for the reorganization of the museum was the opening of many documents showing the scale of Stalinist repression and the horror that the special settlers in the Narym region had to endure. Now an exposition of the museum all stages of political exile, beginning with the Decembrists, the history of the Narym region from ancient times to the present. The museum long time remained ideological establishment and became one of the large centers of political-education and cultural and educational work among the population of the North of the Tomsk region and all Siberia. The main areas of work with visitors during the whole development of the museum were excursions, lectures, exhibitions and only in recent years' museum holidays, thematic excursions began to be introduced. Thus, in the territory of the Russian Federation 27 museums devoted to history of political exile, repressions, the people living in exile work. Among all museums the Narymsky museum takes the worthy place. Establishment of the museum has exerted huge impact on development of the village of Naryma, Parabelsky district. Despite the fact that the village of Narym is still difficult to access, which can be reached in the summer along the Ob River and the winter road in the cold season, the museum is very popular with residents and guests of Narym. Every year it is visited by about 10,000 people, considering that there are about 2000 people living in the Narym settlement itself.

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