On September 9, 2020, with the support of PJSC LUKOIL, the Cultural and Exhibition Center of the Russian Museum opened in Kogalym based on the existing museum and exhibition center. This is the fifth such center in Russia and the first beyond the Ural Mountains. It includes an exhibition space, the information and educational center "Russian Museum: Virtual Branch," and a Resource Center for the creative development of children and adolescents with various abilities.

The collaboration between the Russian Museum and the Kogalym Museum and Exhibition Center began with the opening of the information and educational center "Russian Museum: Virtual Branch" in July 2013. The next step was the opening of the Cultural and Exhibition Center in September 2020. The project is supported by the Kogalym administration and LLC LUKOIL-Western Siberia.

After the center's opening, specialists from Kogalym will be able to include programs from the Russian Museum in their educational projects. The center will become a place for professional experience exchange, hosting city and regional events, as well as a venue for art enthusiasts to connect.

The first exhibition in the new center will showcase paintings from the collection of Vasily Alexandrovich Kokorev. The exhibition includes about fifty works of Russian art, among which are pieces by K. P. Bryullov, P. V. Basin, A. G. Venetsianov, and other renowned masters, as well as paintings by V. A. Tropinin and the Chernetsov brothers.

The exhibition from V. A. Kokorev's collection, one of the first Russian oil industrialists, was chosen for a reason. Kokorev, a descendant of an Old Believer family and a patriot, actively participated in the development of entrepreneurship and culture. He was an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and collected a collection of over five hundred masterpieces of Russian painting and sculpture.

In 1870, due to financial difficulties, Kokorev sold his collection. Most of the collection was acquired by the Ministry of the Imperial Court thanks to the efforts of the future Emperor Alexander III. These works were placed in the Tsarskoye Selo Alexander Palace and later transferred to the Mikhailovsky Palace, which became the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III in 1895.

The opening of this significant exhibition in Kogalym will provide the residents of Western Siberia access to the cultural values of the Russian Museum, which has the largest collection of national art in the world.