Museum of Local Lore and History of Republic Khakassia

The exhibition on political repression and the history of the Gulag in Khakassia opened on 29 April, 1989 and is part of the Museum’s permanent exhibition ‘Khakassia in the 1920s and 1930s’. The exhibition deals with the repressions among the national elite of the Khakassian people. It presents copies and original documents, photographs, and posters and occupies a hall with 25m 2 floor space.

The Abakan branch of ‘Memorial’ became the Museum’s most important single collector of exhibits. Since 1989 ‘Memorial’ has been collecting information on repressed inhabitants of Khakassia and corresponding with victims of repression and with their relatives. All material collected by Memorial staff has been handed over to the museum and now makes up the documentary collection ‘The Repressed’. This collection includes the personal files of 50 people, original documents, memoirs, letters, photographs and personal belongings, overall about 250 items.