Attractions of Siverskodonetsk district

The Kreminna Museum of Local Lore preserves monuments of ancient cultures, the Cossack era, the period of development of the coal industry of the region and the present.

The museum has about 9,000 exhibits.

The museum building is also part of the history of Kreminna, an architectural monument of the late nineteenth century.

In front of the entrance there is a tractor VTZ "Universal" of 1944, on which the first mechanic of Kreminna region worked.

The Popasna Museum of Local Lore was created in 1967 by Semen Ioffe, a local historian from Popasna.

Since 1953, he began collecting exhibits for the museum, which was initially housed in school No. 25, and then moved to a specially spacious room on Hertsena Street.

The museum, to which Ioffe collected more than 13,000 exhibits, became a business card of the city and bears the name of its founder - the Popasna Museum of Local Lore named after Semen Ioffe.

During the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the city of Popasna was on the front line. The Popasna local lore museum was first looted by the Russians, and later destroyed. At the beginning of 2023, the city of Popasna was completely destroyed by the Russian army.

The municipal institution "City Museum" in Rubizhne is located in a two-storey building of the middle of the XX century.

The museum fund consists of more than 3,500 exhibits. The exposition consists of six parts: "Native house" (reconstruction of the interior of the Ukrainian house of the XIX century); "Rubizhne - a city on the sand" (history of the city of Rubizhne from 1895 to 1938); "Winners" (World War II); "History in photos and exhibits from the area of anti-terrorist operation 2014 - 2015, Rubizhne district"; hall of open funds; exhibition evil (exhibitions of artists of decorative and applied arts and artists of the city and region).

In particular, you can learn about the first sand quarry in the region, the first paint factory and the development of the Soviet chemical industry.

The museum conducts lectures, excursions, museum readings, temporary exhibitions, field exhibitions, museum events.