The Museum of the First Soviet is located in the local government building where Russia's first soviet of worker deputies met in 1905. After the Russian Revolution the building was used by various organisations and then as housing until 1964 when it was handed over to the local administration which opened the Museum of the First Soviet here in 1967. Having been renovated in 2005, it aims to inform visitors of the events of the 1905 Revolution which had an effect not just on Ivanovo but on the whole country. The museum is run as part of the Dmitri Burylin Ivanovo State Historical and Regional Museum.