This paper provides the results of a study on fungal species diversity in the active and permafrost layers of peatlands within frozen peatbogs in the flatland areas of the cryolitozone, European Northeast of Russia (forest-tundra zone, southern and northern tundra subzones). Fungal taxonomic list includes eighty-three species from seventeen genera and two forms of Mycelia sterilia. The phylum Mucoromycota is represented by fifteen species (18% of total isolate number), and these species exhibit the following distribution by genus: Mucor (four), Mortierella (seven), Umbelopsis (three), Podila (one). Ascomycota is represented by sixty-eight species from thirteen genera. The genus Penicillium dominates the species saturation (thirty-seven species, 44%). Soil microfungal complex is represented by rare species (51%), random species (32%), frequent species (15%), and dominant species (2%). In peat soils, dominant species are Penicillium canescens (72%) and non-pigmented (albino) Mycelia sterilia (61%); abundant species are Talaromyces funiculosus (41%), Pseudogymnoascus pannorum (36%), albino Mycelia sterilia (29%), Umbelopsis vinacea (25%), Mortierella alpina (17%), Penicillium decumbens (21%), P. spinulosum (20%), and P. canescens (17%). In active layers of peat soils, abundant species are Penicillium thomii (14%), Mycelia sterilia (13%), Penicillium spinulosum (13%), Penicillium simplicissimum (13%) in forest-tundra; Talaromyces funiculosus (21%), albino Mycelia sterilia (15%), Umbelopsis vinacea (14%) in southern tundra; Penicillium decumbens (23%), Penicillium canescens (17%), Penicillium thomii (13%) in northern tundra. In permafrost peat layers, abundant species are Penicillium spinulosum (17%), Talaromyces funiculosus (34%), and Umbelopsis vinacea (15%) in forest-tundra; Pseudogymnoascus pannorum (30%) and Mortierella alpina (28%) in southern tundra; Pseudogymnoascus pannorum (80%) in northern tundra.

The article is devoted to the study of the activities of public education bodies in organising the work of museums on the territory of the newly formed Ivanovo-Voznesensk Province in the early years of the Soviet state. Using the example of museums in Kineshma and Ivanovo-Voznesensk, the main problems they had faced, were considered. The importance and relevance of museums for educational purposes is revealed not only for the centre of the province, but also for lesser towns. Examples from the practice of collecting historical, cultural, artistic and museum values in the estates of industrialists and entrepreneurs, the asceticism of the first museum workers are given. The article uses documents from the State Archive of Ivanovo Region and the auxiliary fund of Kineshma Art and Historical Museum, a significant part of which has been introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. It is addressed to researchers studying the actions of the executive authorities of the Soviet state in its early years of formation and development, as well as the scientific community.