Description of the attraction
The Pustozersk Integrated Historical and Natural Museum was opened in 1991 on the territory of the Pustozersk Settlement Historical Natural Monument and the memorial territory in the village of Ustye. The first director of the museum is M. I. Feschuk.
The museum was opened thanks to the All-Union conference "Pustozersk: Problems, Search" held in 1989 in Naryan-Mar, which was organized by the Nenets Museum of Local Lore. The archeological monument "Pustozerskoe settlement" in 1974 was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments that are protected by the state.
In January 1987 the historical natural monument "Pustozersk Settlement" was approved. Its area was 412 hectares. The protection of this monument was entrusted to the Telviso village council, on the present territory of which Pustozersk was founded in 1499, as well as to the experimental production farm of the Naryan-Mar agricultural station as a land user, and the Naryan-Mar aviation enterprise as a public chief.
In 1990, the territory of the natural-historical monument expanded to 7, 387 thousand hectares in connection with the declaration of the adjacent territory as a protected zone. The following were added to the monument: Sierra hill, Gorodetskoye lake, the memorial part of the Ustye village (eastern), where cultural and historical monuments of the 19th - early 20th centuries are located: the building of the Transfiguration Church (1837), the vowed cross (1862), the Terentyevs' house, the barn Khaimina, the Usachevs 'barn, the Popovs' bathhouse.
In 1993, the building on Tyko Vylki street, house 4, which in the 1930s was transported from Pustozersk to Naryan-Mar, was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments under the name "Shevelev's House" and was transferred to the Pustozersk Museum of Local Lore for display. In 1995, by order of the head of the Naryan-Mar administration, the Fedotovs' House, which is an architectural monument of local importance, was transferred to the Pustozersky Museum for restoration and preservation.
In May 1996, 1,410 hectares of land for nature conservation purposes (more precisely, Lake Gorodetskoye) were assigned to the museum in perpetual use. Thanks to this, in July 1996, work began on the creation of a ranger inspection service.
On Tyko Vylki Street in Naryan-Mar, a land plot was allocated for the creation of a historical and cultural zone, where it is planned to restore the Shevelevs 'house with outbuildings, as well as the Fedotovs' house in their original form.
The main tasks of the museum: preservation of the historical natural landscape of the vicinity of the city of Pustozersk in their natural state, as well as the study of the natural processes taking place there. Much attention is currently paid to the development of tourism. The museum is engaged in exhibition work, lectures, conducts Big and Small Avvkum Readings, organizes archaeological expeditions to the monument "Pustozersk Settlement". Every year, schoolchildren from Naryan-Mar go on vacation to a summer tent camp in Pustozersk in order to get acquainted with the history of their native land.
On the initiative of the museum in September 1999, the International Conference "Pustozersk in the History and Culture of Russia" was held in Naryan-Mar as part of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Pustozersk.
Today, the settlement of Pustozersk has the potential to become one of the important tourist and pilgrimage (Old Believers') centers, since the name of the Old Believer Archpriest Avvakum is sacredly revered by his followers. Many want to visit the place of his martyrdom. Many tourists will be attracted here by the beauty of the nature of these places, their historical significance.
