Yuryevets

The beginning of local regional study work in.
Yurjevets was founded with organization of Yujevetski branch at Ivanovo-Voznesenski provincial scientific local regional study society in 1924. The museum has been created by the group of regional specialists A.I.Batuev, P.I.Makarov and B.V.Shirjaev. Alexey Ivanovich Batuev (1884-1965) was first director.
The regional museum "Museums of the town of Jurjevts" consists of 4 museums: a historic local regional study museum, a house - museum of architects Vesnins, A.Tarkovskogo's museum center, the multimedia center "The House of the Cherkasski".
The historic art museum of the town of Jurjevets was opened on December, 28, 1999. The building where the museum is placed, has been constructed in 1903 by a merchant, town mayor A.L.Fljagin.During Soviet time the school, and then many city establishments were housed here. On December, 28, 1999 the historic art museum was opened in this building. In a museum local regional study material on the history of the town from its foundation and till our time is collected. The exposition of a museum is placed on the second floor and l consists of 4 halls. The exposition is multilayered and unusual in the construction. Works of artists, whose names are connected with the town, photos of well-known families of Jurjevts,the life and crafts of city dwellers,etc.are presented here. Interesting and unique exhibits are exposed in the museum.
Besides there is a showroom, library, salon for sale of products of local masters in the museum. 

The museum was opened on January, 15, 1986, occupies a 2 floor private residence belonging to parents of outstanding architects. The basis of the exposition was made by the materials of State research museum named after Schusev, Yurjevets local regional study museum, personal archives of architect A.G.Chinjakov, critic K.V.Usacheva, relatives of the architects. Big help was rendered by the widow of V.A.Vesnin - N.M.Vesnina. The exposition of a museum is devoted to life and creativity of outstanding Russian architects brothers Vesnins - Victor, Alexander, Leonid, who spent their childhood in Yurjevets.
Such masterpieces of brothers Vesnins became the treasures of Russian and Soviet architecture: Sirotkin house in Nizhni Novgorod (nowadays the Nizhniy Novgorod art museum), bank in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Dnieprogas(power station on the Dniepr), the Community center named after Likhachov, department store on Red Priesnja in Moscow.  

It was opened on November, 29, 1996. The building has been constructed in 1911. The house has been transferred during Soviet time to inhabited municipal apartments which have existed till the moment of creation of the museum.
In 1938. N.M.Petrov (the stepfather of the mother of A.Tarkovsky) was given the job doctor in the regional hospital of. Yurjevets and the two rooms in this house became their place of residence. Andrey Tarkovsky lived at his grandmother's and the grandfather's house in 1936-1939 (in summertime) and in 1941-1943 in evacuation. The impressions of the childhood have left an indelible trace in his memory and were reflected in his creative work. The museum collection of the center was made of materials of the family archive handed by the sister of Andrey Tarkovsky - Marina Arsenjevna, and also materials of the Museum of cinema, archives of VGIK, named after S.A.Gerasimov and A.Tarkovsky's fund.