Nizhnevartovsk Museum of Local History named after T.D. Shuvaev

The Nizhnevartovsk Museum of Local History was founded on November 1, 1973, by decision of the City Council of Workers' Deputies. The museum was created as a local history museum on a voluntary basis. Construction and Installation Department No. 9 of the Nizhnevartovskneftestroy Trust was appointed as the sponsoring organization overseeing the museum's activities. Timofey Dmitrievich Shuvaev was appointed the first director and deputy chairman of the museum council.

In 1994, the museum changed its status to a municipal institution, and the complex was named after Timofey Dmitrievich Shuvaev. On March 11, 2003, a branch of the museum complex, the "Museum of the History of Russian Everyday Life," was opened in the center of the city's historic core, Old Vartovsk. It is a historical and everyday complex consisting of a two-story wooden house and a complex of outbuildings (barns, a bathhouse, a staya, and a zavozni). Each building houses museum exhibits: a peasant hut and chamber, a vestibule, a chamber used by wealthy merchants, and the interior of a room from the 1930s and 1940s.

On February 1, 1978, the museum became a branch of the regional museum of local history and was renamed the "Museum of the Development of Oil Resources in the Middle Ob Region." The museum collection at that time consisted of 2,137 items.

In 2010, the institution acquired its current name. Over more than three decades of the museum's existence, its staff has amassed and compiled collections of items on the history of technology, Russian everyday life, Khanty ethnography, archeology, paleontology, numismatics, and art and graphic works. The museum houses over 40,000 pieces of visual, material, and written sources, revealing the history of the village, district, and city of Nizhnevartovsk. A guided tour of the museum's exhibition halls (ages 0+) will tell you about the natural environment of the Nizhnevartovsk region and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, the culture and life of the indigenous peoples of the North, and the history of Nizhnevartovsk from the 18th to the 20th centuries. In the "Land of Urmans and Swamps" hall, visitors will be introduced to the region's rich fauna: predatory and herbivorous animals, migratory and sedentary birds, river and lake inhabitants, and animals listed in the Red Book. They will also see archaeological finds that tell of Yugra's ancient fauna and the world of mammoth fauna.

In the "Between Vakh and Agan: The Land of Anki-Pugos" hall, guests will learn about the traditional occupations of the Khanty and Nenets peoples – hunting, fishing, reindeer herding, and more. The history of Nizhnevartovsk is revealed in the third exhibition hall, where visitors will hear about the Vartovsk yurts, the pier, and the village of Nizhnevartovskoye, village life during the war, and, of course, learn about the discovery of the Samotlor oil field and the construction of the city.

The exhibition will be interesting for all ages and will allow visitors to learn more about Nizhnevartovsk District and get acquainted with the culture of its residents.

More detailed information can be found on the website — https://nkmus.ru