Museum of Russian - Armenian Friendship Church is located in the Armenian monastery Surb Khach (Holy Cross). The church was built by the famous Russian architect II Starov in 1798 The museum - a picturesque island history and culture of the Don Armenians. The oldest exhibits in the museum - a stone cross stone, brought Armenians from the Crimea, and vintage books printed here in the monastery, which housed the first printing house in the south of Russia G. Haldaryantsa. The museum has a permanent exhibition of local history Russian - Armenian relations and the history of the settlement of Armenians in the Don land. The walls of the monastery of Surb-Hach buried Harutyun Alamdaryan - a teacher, a poet, a prominent Armenian public figure; Mikael Nalbandian - poet, essayist, materialist philosopher, associate Herzen and Chernyshevsky; Rafael Patkanyan - classic of Armenian literature, poet and patriot.