Museum and local history construction in the North Caucasus in the 1920s

The paper reveals one of the topical themes of the development of historical local studies and its influence on the state Museum construction in the North Caucasus. This study focuses on the 1920s. This period is one of the most difficult. Pre-revolutionary museums were transformed into the county ones, as well as the first national museums were established during this period. The authors examined the contribution of D.M. Pavlov, the representative chief science of the People’s Commissariat of national education of the RSFSR for the North Caucasus, the authorized Caucasian Committee of the Glavmuseum for the North Caucasus. His interaction with associates, who shared his fundamental views on the development of the local studies, museum sciences, on the preservation of cultural heritage, such as: V.R. Apukhtin, S.A. Gatuyev, N.M. Yegorov, M.I. Yermolenko, B.M. Gorodetsky, G.N. Prozritelev, A.A. Takho-Godi, was also examined. The importance to the organizational role of the committees, historian congresses at the regional level in museum-building processes in the regional centers of the North Caucasus was explained. The main stages of the establishment of the county museums were reviewed. The difficulties in functioning of institutions are studied, the tangible improvements in building county and national museums were presented.