About The Center

 

 

The Aleksandr Vampilov Cultural Center

an autonomous state institution of culture, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation

 

Hours of operation: Mon-Fri, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

 

Address:

Ulitsa Bogdana Khmelnitskogo 3B

Irkutsk 664 003

Russia

 

Email: centr_vampilova@mail.ru 

 

Telephone:

Galina Anatolievna Soluyanova, Director (3952) 21-70-12

Deputy Director, Financial Department (3952) 20-15-32

Research Staff (3952) 20-39-74

 

For international calls, please dial +7 before the number.

 

 

The Aleksandr Vampilov Cultural Center was registered on May 11, 2012 by the Irkutsk Oblast Ministry of Culture and Archives. The official opening occurred on August 19 of that year, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Vampilov’s birth. Sixteen years of preparation preceded the center as it stands today. In 1996 the Aleksandr Vampilov Fund was created, with renowned actor and People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Vitaly Venger acting as chairman and Galina Soluyanova as executive director. The public organization began to collect personal items of the playwright’s, along with photographs, posters, theater programs, books, and paintings, and likewise began the search for a place for the fund to call home.

 

In late December 2004 the city Duma granted the Vampilov House a building dating to the early twentieth century that once served as the private chapel in the Yuzefovich family manor. Restoration began the following year, finishing after several hiatuses in 2012. The fully refurbished museum boasts three levels: a basement featuring an art gallery, library, archives, living room, and research offices; a first-floor main hall with performance area and revolving exhibitions; and a mezzanine housing the permanent museum collection. Other amenities include a brand-new balcony and winter garden.

 

The restored building hosted its first event in March 2012, at which photographer Anatoly Byzov presented his exhibition Mysterious Faces of Irkutsk. Before the official opening in August, four more events celebrated the city’s and the oblast’s cultural wealth in a series titled A Date at Vampilov’s: local artist Sergei Eloyan exhibited illustrations he completed for a new edition of Valentin Rasputin’s Farewell to Matyora, stage director Valentin Zverovschikov released his novel Fowl, the art gallery celebrated its opening, and students from the Academy of Education presented the Center with a collection of handmade ceramic pots entitled The Streets of Old Irkutsk.

 

Since the opening, we have hosted a variety of events, including the academic conference “In the World of Aleksandr Vampilov” as part of the conference series The Radiance of Russia, to which contributed Vampilov scholars from around the country (N. Pogosova, Y. Streltsova, V. Golovchiner); a performance by Sergei Stupin; the presentation of the Irkutsk Oblast Governor’s Award to those working in the field of art and culture; and many other memorable occasions.

 

In August, 2013 the long-awaited permanent museum exhibition On The Mezzanine opened, offering to viewers a modern presentation of Vampilov’s life and work. With this addition, the museum was transformed, and today truly is a home to house and extend the playwright’s legacy.

 

We welcome you as a guest to the Aleksandr Vampilov House Museum.

 

We offer several options to best serve you in your visit:

 

• “A Word on Vampilov,” a guided tour of the Center (please make a reservation by email or telephone beforehand)
• Self-guided tour
• Event-hosting in our first floor Main Hall
• Joint events. We are interested in all manner of new things, and would be pleased to work with you in organizing any cultural, academic, educational, or celebratory event.

 

You are also invited to join us for any opening events occurring at the Center. Please see our homepage for details.

 

 

 

 

Ticket Prices (in Rubles)

 

 

Entrance (without guided tour) - 100

Adult (with guided tour) - 250

 

 

Discounts with guided tour

 

Students - 100

Pensioners - 70

Veterans - 70

 

 

Free entrance (without guided tour)

 

Children five and under

Handicapped of the first and second order

WWII veterans

Heroes of the USSR or Russian Federation, Full Cavaliers of the Order of Glory

Enlisted military

 

 

Group tours (for groups up to five people)

 

Adults  -  200

Students 17 and under  - 100

 

 

Cultural and Leisure Activities

 

Festivals, Events, Literary Salons

Adults  - 250

Students 17 and under - 200

Joint activities  -  5,000-20,000

 

Library entrance (1 hr.) -  100

 

 

Photo and Video

 

Amateur photography - 100

Professional photography  - 300

 

Photo shoot (1 hr.)  - 1,000

 

 

The last Wednesday of each month we offer free entrance to the groups below upon presentation of valid identification:

• Orphaned children and children left without parental care (in accordance with Order №59-мпр “On the approval of free access to orphans and children left without parental care” of the Irkutsk Oblast Ministry of Culture and Archives, effective 1 April 2010)