Srostki village is situated on the 36th km of the famous Chuisk road which connects Russia and both Mongolia and China. This road has its starting point in Biysk city; it's a part of
Srostky. 1978-1991 - Shukshin House-Museum (Branch of the Altai Museum of Regional Ethnography). Since 1991 it has the status of Shukshin State Memorial. At the Jubilee Shukshin's Birthday Celebrations in 1999 the museum was given the status of All-Russian museum.
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At present Shukshin Museum consists of Mother's House
with the memorial domestic exposition and the former Srostky
School building. Now this building houses the historical literary exposition "Life and Creative Work of V.M.Shukshin".
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The house, where V.M. Shukshin spent his childhood
and youth.
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In this house the Shukshins lived from 1940
to 1957.
A great period in the life of
Vasili Makarovich: schooling, technical school, here he returned after the army, worked in the school, went to study in Moscow.
In January 2002, the house was opened as the museum. In July the memorial exhibition was presented :"Far winter evenings" with the personal photographs and letters from the archives of the mother.
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Vasili studied in this class in 1944, submitted
by his secondary school diploma . In this room
one can see his desk, his textbooks, copybooks.
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The sculpture of V.Shukshin made by V. Klykov
was erected in 1985. The park laid in 1979
with a beautiful flowerbed, birch trees, mountain ash, fir trees, rose is now on the place of former kitchen garden.
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Picket Hill (local name Bicket) is known far
outside the village as the venue since 1976 Shukshin
readings - the national literary festival. This is one of the most attractive places of the village.
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In the whole field of the history Russian
people have collected, saved, made respectable such qualities not
to be reconsidered as honesty, industry, kindness... Believe me, it was not for nothing - our songs, our tales, our victories too hard to win, our crosses. Don't give it all just like this. We knew how to live. Remember that. Be a man.