Ufa Lenin Museum, Federal cultural heritage museum in Ufa, Russia.
The Ufa Lenin Museum is a heritage house in Russia containing multiple rooms with photographs, letters, documents, and personal belongings of Lenin and his family members. The collections trace different phases of his life before he became a revolutionary leader.
Lenin stayed in Ufa twice, in February and June 1900; on the second visit his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya rented a house with a mezzanine at the corner of Zhandarmskaya (now Krupskaya) and Tyuremnaya (now Dostoevsky) streets, where he lived almost three weeks. The museum opened on 21 January 1941 in a two-storey building next to that house, built to architect G. Adamovich's 1938 design under Krupskaya's supervision. Its first director was Sh. Khanafin; Khayat Akhmetova led it for over forty years from 1943.
The house on Dostoevsky Street, at the former corner of Zhandarmskaya and Prison streets, is a reconstruction of the home Krupskaya rented in 1900; the museum opened on 21 January 1941. Its rooms were arranged under Krupskaya's supervision, and at her insistence an exhibition on Lenin's life and revolutionary work was added. From 1943 Hayat Akhmetova directed the museum for over forty years, and it was here that pioneers and Komsomol members were ceremonially admitted.
The museum is open daily and offers tours, allowing visitors to explore the various rooms at their own pace. It helps to plan for about one to two hours for a thorough visit.
The museum opened on 21 January 1941; within three months it had received more than 12,000 visitors, and over its history it has counted more than four million visitors from 87 countries. Its first director was Sh. Khanafin, and from 1943 Khayat Akhmetova headed it for more than forty years. Pioneer and Komsomol induction ceremonies were held here.
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