Museum of History of Kokshetau, Regional history museum in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

The Museum of History of Kokshetau occupies a single-storey wooden house built in 1880 as a town estate, with facades of horizontal boards and carved fretwork cornices. Its five small halls trace the city from its founding in 1824 to today, and the courtyard holds a 1930 Cadillac that Valerian Kuybyshev used in Moscow.

The museum opened in 1949 as the Republican Memorial House-Museum of V. V. Kuibyshev, in the wooden house where his family lived from 1889 to 1905 and where his sister Yelena, its founder and first director, had spent her childhood. During the Great Patriotic War the house held a rear hospital for Red Army soldiers. In 2000 it was reorganised into the Museum of History of Kokshetau, and the building has been a monument of republican significance since 26 January 1982.

The museum occupies the wooden house where Valerian Kuybyshev spent his childhood and youth from 1889 to 1905. His sister Yelena Kuybysheva, the city's first honorary citizen, founded the museum and directed it for over 30 years. In the courtyard stands a 1930 Cadillac that Kuybyshev used in Moscow, brought to Kokshetau in 1949.

The museum occupies five small halls arranged in chronological order, from the city's founding in 1824 to the present, plus a reconstructed 1950s apartment. The visit ends in the courtyard, where a 1930 Cadillac used by Valerian Kuybyshev in Moscow and horse-drawn sledges and carts are kept under a covered area.

The wooden house was built in 1880 as a town estate, and Valerian Kuybyshev's sister Yelena, the museum's founder and first director, moved from Moscow to Kokchetav to find her parents' home and ran the museum for over 30 years. In the yard stands a 1930 General Motors Cadillac that Kuybyshev used in Moscow, driven to Kokchetav in 1949.