Donetsk Regional Museum of Art

The Donetsk Republican Art Museum was founded in the city of Stalin on September 23, 1939 as a Museum of Fine Arts. In 1941 in connection with the German occupation of Donbass, his collection was looted. In 1958, the department of fine arts was opened in the Stalin Museum of Local Lore, and in 1960 the museum was revived as the Stalin (in 1961 - Donetsk) art gallery, in 1965 - the Donetsk Regional Art Museum, since 2015. - Donetsk Republican Art Museum. In 1975, nine paintings and drawings from the pre-war collection that were saved during the Stalin occupation by local artist E.E. returned to the museum. Greylikh and stored all this time in the Kiev Museum of Russian Art.