The Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin Historical and Memorial Museum was founded in 2011 in the village Cherny Otrog of the Orenburg region, which is the birthplace of V.S. Chernomyrdin, the first Prime Minister of The Russian Federation. The Museum Foundation was established with the support of Chernomyrdin's fellow countrymen. The Chernomyrdin archive as also his collection of cars, steel arms and paintings were transferred to the Museum by his inheritors. The work-room of Viktor Chernomyrdin has been donated to the museum by the Russian Government. The ethnographic fund has been formed and it includes some household items of the Orenburg Cossacks as also the collection of Orenburg downy shawls