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History of the region based on the materials of archeological excavations” is being opened on the lowest floor of the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple with the refectory. It is the first full exhibition representing archaeology of the Belozersk district in the Vologda Region. Materials of the monastery archeology are displayed for the first time in our region. More than 4000 archeological objects dating back to different chronological periods are represented there: from the Mesolithic period (9000 B.C.) till the late Middle Ages.
At the end of the 20th – early 21st century considerable restoration work has been carried out in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. Museumfication of the monuments is being realized at the same time. One of the most interesting architectural buildings of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery is the Monks’ cells. In the process of its restoration architects and restorers managed to discover complicated structure of this dwelling house of the 17th-19th centuries.
Exhibitions dedicated to the folk applied art and handicrafts of the Belozersk district are placed in the spacious vaulted chambers of the monastery cook-house of the 16th century. An important place is occupied by wood-carving, ceramics, peasant embroidery, weaving, lace-making and a folk female costume of the 19th-early 20th centuries.

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01.10.2009

Mikhail Nikolaevich Sharomazov was born in 1958. In 1990 he graduated from Leningrad institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture by the name of I.E.Repin, the faculty of theory and history of art. The length of his work is 35 years including 22 years of museum work. M.N.Sharomazov worked in the State museum of Art of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Kishinev) in 1986. Since September, 1, 1987 till December 1989 he worked in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum as the scientific worker of the department of the Old Russian art. Then he worked in the museum of Frescoes of Dionysius as the assistant director of scientific work and the head of the exhibition department. In October, 1 he was appointed the Director of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve.  

M.N.Sharomazov is the author of many scientific works. 

In 1998 he was awarded the Diploma of the Governor of Vologda region for contribution to development of the museum and culture. In 2007 M.N.Sharomazov was also awarded The State Prize of Vologda region for his work concerning the preservation, studying and popularization of the historic-cultural heritage.