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Not every enterprise can proudly say of its own museum. But JSC "Agro-industrial firm "Tavria" is in this position. Any, respecting itself family, with traditions and glorious past, which in essence is our group, proudly shows the corporate-family album to guests. This function, the "corporate-family album" of "Tavria" is on responsibility of Museum, that will celebrate its 34 anniversary on November, 2007. No doubt, all guests of our glorious agro-industrial firm have not only a desire to closely be acquainted with its history, but also on the whole with our territory.

In this case, it is simple not to treat without seeing a museum. Enormous amount of authentic material exhibits, including unique, models, pictures (only about 6.5 thousand units of storage), presented in five halls, acquaint visitors with the amazing corner of lower Left-bankness of river Dnepr, with its unique nature, marvelous history, constituently tells about our viticulture and vine making.

The main conception of museum is showing the history of our company through the fates of people, standings at the sources of enterprise, those, who protected the land in hard times, those, who glorifies land by the labour in our days.The museum history of creation is indissolubly related to appearance and existence of our "Tavria", arising up on the base of the nationalized vine-making economies of swiss colonists, as vine state farm "Peremoga naymitiv" in November, 1929.

In 1969, on celebration days of fortieth anniversary of enterprise, then state farm-factory "Tavriya", the veterans and company leaders had an idea to create its own state farm museum. In order to create this, not only the apartment, but also materials, documents and exhibits were needed. The veteran of state farm Irina Epifanovna Solokhina very helped in this not simple business, unique archived documents, related to creation of "Peremoga naymitiv", which she brought from Kharkov made the basis of hat time display.

Enormous work on exhibits collections, flashbacks of veterans at that time made the head of school of working young people in a settlement Osnova, Raisa Pavlovna Smetana. It is possible to say that all the group of "Tavria", headed of that time by the director - Semen Semenovich Ostapenko and party organizer - Nikolai Nikitovich Pokhodun, took active part in the museum creation. The basic difficulty was that, there were no specialists of acquaintance with museum business, therefore for help appealed to the Odessa regional museum.

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