The curatorial group 5318 of the Faculty of General Medicine (curated by Acting Professor Smail E.M.) visited the Literary Memorial Museum of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in Semey on March 2, 2025. There are seven literary and memorial museums in the world dedicated to the talented writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Memorial houses, museums, apartments and estates are located in six cities of the Russian Federation: Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Omsk, Novokuznetsk, Staraya Russa (Novgorod region) and only one is located outside the borders of Russia, in the Republic of Kazakhstan in Semey. During the tour, the students learned that the Dostoevsky Literary Memorial Museum was opened in Semipalatinsk on the eve of Victory Day in 1971. This house-museum, in accordance with the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh Soviet Republic, was founded in memory of the years spent by the famous writer in the local military service, where he was sentenced to be sent after long hard labor. Fyodor Mikhailovich stayed here from 1854 to 1859. A bronze composition by the Moscow sculptor D.G. Elbakidze, depicting the folklore historian Chokan Valikhanov and Fyodor Dostoevsky, is installed in the museum courtyard. Their casual acquaintance in Omsk turned into a strong friendship. The friends met several times in Semipalatinsk and corresponded. The composition is based on a real photograph from 1859, where two friends were captured at the time of the meeting. At that time, Valikhanov was on his way from another expedition to Omsk, and Dostoevsky already had permission to leave the place of exile. A bronze monument appeared in the courtyard of the Literary Memorial Museum in 1977. The students received a lot of interesting and useful information by visiting the literary Memorial Museum of F.M. Dostoevsky, about the facts of the biography and work of the greatest writer, classic of Russian literature, thinker Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
Shaimardanov N.K., Smail E.M.