The Museum of Social Life in Kazan is a uniqueand an interesting place where you can make a journey in time and return to the past, in the times of the USSR. With the help of the museum exhibits you can plunge into the atmosphere of the life of a multinational country. In Russia there are no analogues. The museum is a world of positive memories and positive emotions.
The history of the museum
The museum began to be formed from the beginning of the 90s,this is the period when the many-year-old way of life of all Soviet people collapsed. Rustem Valikhmetov at that time was a photographer and a designer. It all started with the fact that he decorated his studio in the design of Soviet times. At first it was an ordinary apartment where he lived with his family, then the basement of a residential building, which served as a photo studio and became a meeting place for musicians and artists.
At one of these meetings in the studio attendedAndrei Makarevich, whom she struck so much that he gave his jeans to the collection, in which he recorded at the Beatles studio in London. Other musicians such as Garik Sukachev, E. Margulis, A. Rosenbaum, Chizh, V. Butusov, "Vopli Vidoplyasova", "Picnic" and "Aria" bands also left their presents. In the museum exhibits there is a jeans jacket of Joseph Brodsky. The collection of the photo studio began to replenish, and places for all the exhibits became scarce. At this time, the studio and its design were interested in the city authorities.
The city leadership noticed a creative ideaRustem, and thanks to partnership with the city administration in the very center of Kazan, the Museum of Socialist Life was opened. The premises for the museum served as a communal apartment of 200 m2, which was in a house built in the 19th century. Brick walls, Soviet switches, old electrical wiring, conventional cast-iron batteries - this is the accompanying natural interior of the museum.
The Museum of Socialist Life in Kazan in2011, the first was the exhibition "Soviet School". The project immediately became popular among the people, its citizens were connected to all age groups and different social status.
Acquaintance with sotsbytom begins on the stairs
Acquaintance with the social life of the USSR visitorbegins immediately on the stairs. Once upon a time in the stairwell of this entrance was a smoking-room, which the tenants of the house arranged here. After they were moved and the museum was located here, in the former smoking room the exposition "Harmful habits in the USSR" was opened. In addition to cigarettes and cigarettes, there are exhibits of alcoholic beverages. And most of them are not models, but real ones. Curious is that many bottles are former hives of husbands from wives, about which they forgot, and after years were found by wives and brought to the museum's collection.
Hall of rock and roll fame
The history of this hall favorite by visitorsbegins with the 90-ies. A lot of musicians and other representatives of the creative intelligentsia gathered in the studio. There was a tradition to give their old guitars to the owner of the studio, leaving their autographs and wishes on them. Then the idea "Give the guitar a new life" was born: the usual old guitars put autographs of the star, who came with concerts to Kazan. So the usual old musical instrument became a valuable copy. A curious fact is that the museum has a self-made guitar by Garik Sukachev and a manual on making home-made guitars, which was published in the 1920s.
Exhibits of the Museum of Socialist Life in Kazan
The museum has a lot of unique and interesting exhibits. For example, the pride of the museum is a leather jacket, which was made from covers of party tickets, and a tunic sewn from pioneer ties.
The museum exhibited a stereo camera, which gathered a resident of the city from two conventional soap dishes.
Unique by ingenuity is the soldering iron soldering iron.
Visitors really like the exposition"Perfumery of the USSR", all kinds of creams, perfumes, Leningrad ink, colognes and lotions. Many vials and tubes were not even opened, apparently, they were bought for a "rainy day." Many perfumes still retain their scent.
Among the exhibits of the Museum of Socialist Life are clothes of Soviet times. It can be tried on here and photographed in it for memory.
A unique exhibit in the museum is the poster of the "Time Machine". It was painted in 1980 by hand by Andrei Makarevich and his father.
The exposition of the museum includes:children's toys, school uniforms, Lenin's portrait on the carpet, table games for children, the bicycle Shkolnik, Soviet watches and fashionable at that time sneakers, uniforms from the national hockey team, radio, exercise bikes, pioneer ties, military uniforms, vacuum cleaner, well-known Soviet mesh, a collection of badges, cassette tape recorders, photo albums, headgear, Soviet money and many other exhibits. It is worth noting that the rules of visiting the museum allow children to touch toys and play board games.
In the museum is presented in the form of badges, plush and rubber toys, statuettes symbol of the 1980 Olympics - a bear. The whole country was crying with him: "Good-bye, our tender bear ...".
In general, the interior of the museum is very similar to the computer games "Find the Cat" and the online search engine. In the museum about 7 thousand exhibits, you can safely play the game "Find an object", only in a real place and time.
Contingent of visitors
Museum of Socialist Life in Kazan visitsa very wide range of people. Many students are actively interested in the Soviet era. Among the visitors there are a lot of those who were born and lived in the USSR, they come here for positive memories and emotions. Many come with children to show clearly how youth and childhood passed at that time.
On the Museum of Socialist Life in Kazan reviewsvisitors leave different, one like the museum and its idea, while others remain unhappy that there is no guide, others expected more from the museum. But, however that may be, the museum exhibits evoke emotions among visitors, in most cases positive.
Where do the exhibits for the museum come from?
The collection of the museum is replenished by ordinary people,guests and visitors of the museum. The museum and its director do not chase the number of exhibits, and so much, in the exhibition hall of the museum only one-fifth is placed, the rest are in the vault.
Выставляются экспонаты, которые способны вызвать emotions and positive memories. In addition, there are exhibitions devoted to a certain topic - "New Year", "Soviet School". The exhibition "Soviet Army", "1980 Olympics" is planned.
The museum address and mode of operation
The Museum of Socialist Life is located in the city of Kazan, on Universitetskaya Street, 6.
The museum is open from 10:00 to 20:00. Works without days off.
How to get there
You can get here by any type of public transport to the stop "Tukaya Square", from the stop to walk for about 5-6 minutes.
The Museum of Socialist Life is a place whereeveryone can make a unique journey into the bright past, plunge into the aura of those times. The exhibits recreate the spirit of the Soviet era, and the rest is the mood and positive memories of the visitors themselves!
