The Museum Photo: the Museum "Krasnaya Gorka"

The Museum "Krasnaya Gorka" in Kemerovo is a kind of outdoor Museum based in the former mine in coal mining. Here visitors can learn the history of the development of the coal industry of Kuzbass, to explore the monuments of the mining heritage.

A pioneer of red hill was fizzledowser Michael Volkov, who in the distant 1721 found on this extensive deposits of coal. With the development of this field began and the history of the development of Kuzbass. Its name is "Red hill" - got mine due to an underground coal fire, causing the color of the mountain has changed to red. The second name of this natural monument – Burnt hill.

Each of the stages of development of the mine and left a bright trace in history, and today, visitors of the Museum-reserve can see the old buildings of JSC "Copycut", which operated in the years 1912-1919, houses and public buildings, erected on the initiative of the international industrial organizations of the Autonomous industrial colony "Kuzbas", which was engaged in the development of this region in the 20-ies of the last century.

In 2003, the complex of monuments "red hill" was supplemented by a large-scale monument in the performance of the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny - "memory of the miners of Kuzbass". Five years later, to celebrate the centennial anniversary since the opening of the Kemerovo mine, was erected another monument, dedicated to the Holy great Martyr Varvara, who is the patron Saint of miners.

All thematic exhibitions and the Museum dedicated to the history of development of the mine and the city of Kemerovo in General. The Museum also houses a cinema, special for whom you purchased historic newsreel history of the city and the region, and showing educational films.

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