FROM MUSEUM BUILDING TO ETHNO-BUILDING (SOUTHER N URA L NAGAIBAK CASE)
The museum boom of the 1990s was notable for the massive opening of large and small expositions, rooms and “corners”, individual museums and exhibitions dedicated to the cultural heritage of ethnic communities. Nagaibaks were direct participants in the museum movement. In the Soviet period, their ethnicity was hidden and latent, and in the post-Soviet era they turned into ethnic extroverts, striving to widely demonstrate their traditions and declare their identity. In 1986, the Nagaibaks created their first museum (5 more subsequently opened), then their ethnic movement was overwhelmingly successful: in the 1990s they achieved the status of “indigenous people of the Russian Federation”. The first Nagaibak museums were opened thanks to the activity of their leaders: Mametiev, Fomin and Vasiliev. Their fates - war veterans, active public figures - are very similar, and the museums seem to have woven them into a single network. Despite the fact that the museums had different goals when they were created, they eventually became the ethnocultural space of Nagaibaks. The Ferschampenoise Museum, which was originally dedicated to the history of the district, turned out to be a kind of “base” for the search for ethnic identity. The Paris Museum, opened in memory of Marshal Blucher, soon changed focus on the exposition of Nagaibak culture. The Ostrolensky Museum turned out to be a place for the rehabilitation of the material and cultural heritage of Cossack Nagaibaks. The rapid creation of museums was a response to the half-century latent state of ethnicity in Soviet times and the ethnic boom in the post-Soviet period.