ZHUKOVA Irina Vladimirovna

As the director of the All-russian Museum of History and Ethnography, she promotes the integration of museums located in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine into the russian cultural space.
Under Zhukova's leadership, the Museum of History and Ethnography implements the federal curation programme of the Ministry of Culture of the russian federation, which provides material, organisational and methodological support to cultural institutions in the so-called "new regions" - the Chornukhino Folk Museum of Local Lore named after G.I. Ivashchenko and the Perevalsk District Historical Museum in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region.
In December 2023, a delegation of the All-Ukrainian Institute of Educational and Cultural Affairs headed by Zhukova, following a working visit to the temporarily occupied Perevalsk and Chornukhyne, decided to open Children's Cultural and Educational Centres on the basis of the Chornukhyne H.I. Ivashchenko Folk Museum and the Perevalsk District Historical Museum.
In November 2024, a delegation of the Museum of History and Ethnography, led by Zhukova, visited the Chornukhy Museum again, where they presented a propaganda exhibition "Unity through the Ages". As noted on the Museum of History and Ethnography website, the exhibition "aims to show the inextricable historical connection between Donbas and russia".
In October 2024, in connection with the so-called "anniversary of the accession of new regions", the Museum of History and Ethnography website published Zhukova's address in which she stated that "Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson have always been russian lands, we have a common history, common traditions, common spiritual values".