Today the museum has over more than 805,400 items , including 580 085 subjects of the main fund .They systematically cover the entire local studies , representing value for the history of the peoples of the Volga and Ural regions.
In the museum are working 348 employees, of which 79 scientific . Research activities of the museum is carried out, mainly in the fields of history , natural history , ethnography and literature.
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