Inta History Museum
   Photo: Inta History Museum

Inta History Museum is located in the town of Inta in the street Kuratov house 28. History Museum in Inta was organized in 1969. In 1971, he became a branch of the national historical museum. In 1992, the museum officially became an independent institution. Initiator and first director of the museum of local lore was the historian and ethnographer LN Malofeevskaya

Today, the museum is an exposition and stock complex, as well as the historical and ethnographic museum village Petrun and historical-memorial complex settlement Abez.V stock complex includes multiple repositories, including spetskhran, storeroom storage, quarantine room, a library with a reading room, a research archive , restoration workshop, lecture hall.

The most rare finds of archaeological exhibits are related to the I-III centuries. BC .: mirror and rings, bronze pendants, which were found during expeditions in 2001 and 2003 near the lake Pozhemty.

The tremendous interest visitors are exhibits fossil collection, which is composed of materials and paleoflore paleofaune Upper Paleozoic Era, Lower Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic.

A large collection of funds from local history museum of the city of Inta also characterizes the history of the area. First of all, the attention of visitors attracted by the personal archives: N. Punin critic and philosopher L. Karsavina, writers Yu Dunskiy and B. Fried, scientist-metallurgist Feshenko Chopivskogo and other famous people. The historical value is the collection of photographs of old views of the city, presented the author's collection Bludau, Porotikova Ivanova.

The museum also houses a collection of bone, suede, fur, leather, both modern and ancient, that characterize the Komi national crafts, a collection of items relating to the work of the miners.

The museum also houses a collection of works of art consisting of paintings by amateur and professional artists. The greatest interest in this collection are: drawing and watercolors by Vitaly Trofimov, Engels Kozlov paintings, works by artists of the Gulag prisoners.

The Inta regional museum - seven exhibition halls which are connected in a ring. Presented in their exhibits tell about the climatic conditions of the area, periods and ways of its settlement, preferential employment of the population of these places, their culture from ancient times to the present, the social and political transformations in these places, the tragic history of the region, related to the time of repression .

One of the exhibits of the museum called "The City and the fate of" the history of the city, which is revealed through the fate of specific, relevant for Inta personalities.

The museum exposition tells also of the industrial development of the local coal mine. This is - a kind of a museum in a museum. It is called the "Museum of coal." This - the only museum of its kind in the Republic of Komi. It was created in 2001, its opening was dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of foundation of the company "Intaugol." The museum of coal presented photographs, documents, models of mining machinery, tools, services, and equipment and clothing, ie all that helped to recreate the process of coal reserves Inta reconnoitering the area of ​​construction, exploitation of local mines. Especially for the museum built a life-size mounts various kinds of mine workings.

  I can complement the description