North Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Fine Arts

North Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Fine Arts is a city planning and architectural monument included in the list of republican significance historical and cultural monuments of North Kazakhstan region.

Historical data

The building is a pre‑revolution wooden house monument belonging to the owner of the sawmill and forest industry G.A. Yusefovych. The monument is considered a wooden house with a brick foundation and a lower part of the wall protruding outward. Its unique volumetric‑spatial composition consists of a two‑storey section with a T‑shaped single‑storey annex attached to it. The latter is the main façade facing the street. On the top of the façade’s pediment a dome resembling a roof ending in a roof‑spike is installed. The roof decoration, the molding of the window frames, and the belts on the façade are made in a unified style, which experts classify as belonging to the structure of the “modern” style.

Over the years, the building housed a children’s home, a colony for juvenile offenders, a clinic, a pedagogical college, a workers’ youth school, and others. Since 1985 the museum association operated, and since 1989 – the North Kazakhstan Museum of Fine Arts.

Museum collection

Currently the museum’s exhibition collection exceeds 5,000 storage units, and several halls operate: sculpture, painting, decorative‑applied arts, literary and graphic.

The main part of the collection in the graphics department consists of works by famous artists Vladimir Favorsky, Anna Ostroumova-Labedova, Kukrynix, May Miturich-Khlebnikov, Georgy Nissky, Mikhail Mayofis, Georgy Poplavsky, Domitselle Tarabildene, Rafi Hachatrjan, Grigor Khanyan, Luis Ortega, Herluf Bidstrup. Works by Kazakh artists Valentin Antoshchenko-Olenev, Evgeny Sidorkin, Konstantin Baranov, Makum Qisamedinov, Temirhan Ordabekov, Pavel Rechensky, Vasily Timofeyev, Arsen Beysembinov, A. Sydikhanov were also placed in the exhibition.

The main part of the painting department consists of works by Kazakh masters Abilhan Kasteev, Nikolai Khlyudov, Aubakir Ysmayilov, Leonid Leontev, Viktor Krylov, Zhanatay Shardenov, Ivan Stadnichuk and others.

The sculpture department presents works by Oleg Komov, Nikolai Nikogosyan, Yulia Segal, Serenzhab Baldano, Mikhail Rapaport, Alexander Eller.

The decorative-applied arts fund contains Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh patterns, Oral ornaments, samauirs, wall hangings, ceramic items, ethnographic item collections. The metalwork department includes wooden, bronze cast badges, detachable badges, badges, crosses, church vessels, clothing. There is a collection of children's creative works.

In 1992 the literary department was opened. The number of artifacts in the department is 2600 items: manuscripts, writers' works, personal items, photographs, letters. The department studies the works of local writers: Magzhan Zhumabayev, Petr Ershov, Ivan Shukhov, Sabit Mukhanov, Gabit Musirepov.