There is in the Perm region Lysva - an ancient city. It appeared due to the development in the Urals of large factories producing rolled metal and roofing iron. Initially, at the end of the 18th century, it was not a city, but a small settlement in which the builders of the future plant lived. You can learn about the development of the city, the modernization of the metallurgical plant, the creation of interesting crafts by visiting the local history museum, the exposition of which is regularly updated.
History of the creation of the museum
To preserve the memory of the development of the city-forming Lysva plant in the Perm Territory, public organizations and veteran factory workers organized an initiative group, and in 1957, as a result of their work, a factory museum was created. Only in 2008, it received the status of a municipal institution and officially became known as the Lysvensky Museum of Local Lore.
The building in which the main exposition of the museum is located representsIt is a wooden one-story house, built for specialists at the beginning of the 20th century, and then served as the House of Culture for a long time. In the museum you can find exhibits dedicated to the history of the development of the Lysva plant and the mining district. The single museum complex of Lysva includes the only Helmet Museum in Russia.
It has a hall of fame, which displays letters from soldiers, wartime items, uniforms, medals, documents.
Helmet Museum
This museum is unique in its content. The exposition is not very large, but interesting. The Lysvensky Museum has collected samples of helmets dating back to the First World War. The first helmets were designed by an army corps surgeon. They were produced in small quantities and were highly valued, passed down "by inheritance". On the helmets, holes were provided on the sides for the passage of air, as well as the ability to mount additional armor to protect against shrapnel. But this defense did not justify itself, since the energy of the impact of a sniper bullet, literally throwing the fighter's head back, broke the cervical vertebrae.
Helmets for soldiers until 1942 produced two factories located in Stalingrad and Leningrad, then their production was transferred to Lysva. The workers of the metallurgical plant had to master the production of these products from scratch.
Helmets from around the world
The exposition of the Lysvensky Museum contains information about helmets that were used at different times by the military of many countries. So, for example, the French helmet had the RF brand - the Republic of France and the emblems of childbirthtroops. This helmet was used not only in France. Until the 80s of the last century, such countries as Belgium, Italy, Poland, Romania, Mexico and others had it in service.
The most beautiful was the M-18 Swiss helmet, which looked like a medieval helmet. An English helmet looks like a basin. She protected not only the head of the English soldier, but also the shoulders.
Soviet helmet SSH-36 was personally tested by Budyonny. He chopped this helmet with a saber, testing it for strength. From the materials of the museum, you can learn that the first baptism of the helmet took place in Spain, and then there were Khasan and Halkin-Gol. But the SSH-40 helmet was developed and produced during the war years by the engineers of the Lysva plant.
Besides helmets, you can see bibs, boxes for gas masks and bowlers, also produced at the Lysyev factories, on the museum stands. Museum guides allow you to touch and even try on your favorite helmets, and those who wish can take pictures with them.
Steel Plant History Hall
In the hall of the museum there is a permanent exhibition, the material of which is dedicated to the development of the Lysvensky Mining District, the main metallurgical enterprise of which is the Lysvensky Metallurgical Plant. In one of the halls there is a stylized water wheel, which rotated on the factory dam and set in motion heavy hammers that crushed ore. The exhibits will acquaint visitors of the Lysva Museum with how the mining power was formed.
In the stand materials presentedillustrated information about the founder of the iron-smelting and iron-working plant Baroness Shakhovskaya Varvara Alexandrovna. There is also material on the modernization of the plant.
Lysva enamel
One of the industrial brands of the Urals - Lysva enamel. It was to her that the opening in 2014 of a new exposition "Secrets of Lysva enamel" was dedicated. How the enamel was created was actually kept a secret. At the factory that was at the Shuvalov plant, Polish specialists made enameled dishes. They kept the whole technology of the process secret. After the October Revolution, the Poles left the factory, taking all the technical documentation. Enamel firing was rediscovered by Professor E. V. Kuklin. He developed the technological process. The works of the artists Klyupanovs, who used firing as an artistic technique, are in many museums in the Urals.
In the museum, under the guidance of a master enameller, visitors are given the opportunity to create a drawing on a special enamel plate and fire it in a real kiln. Visitors in the reviews of the Lysvensky Museum always mention their practice of creating enamel.
Museum work
The museum is located in the city center, open to visitors from 12:00 to 17:00 all days of the week except Monday and the last day of each month. The ticket price is 80 rubles. Address of the Lysva Museum: st. Mira, 4
You can get to the museum from any part of the city by city bus. All 10 bus routes run through the city center. Get off at the stop "Central Library",which is located on Revolution Square.
The "Artist's shop" works in the museum. It sells works by local craftsmen, books by contemporary writers, and enamelware.
