The building of the local history museum in Uralsk is a monument of architecture and history of Kazakhstan, originally the building of the Russian-Kyrgyz handicraft school. Construction began in 1879 according to the initial design of the architect of the Orenburg educational district E. Kh. Korf, significantly revised by the Ural military architect I. A. Tets. Classes at the Russian-Kyrgyz school began in 1884. In the Soviet years, the building was occupied by a military commissariat, a vocational school, and an auditorium of an agricultural institute. Since 1980, the building has housed expositions of the Ural Regional Museum of History and Local Lore.