The museum-estate of Gennady Vasilyevich Yudin, part of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Local History Museum, is located on the left bank of the Yenisei River, on Afontova Mountain in the Oktyabrsky District of Krasnoyarsk. Currently, the museum is closed for reconstruction.

After the reconstruction is completed, the museum will be dedicated to the famous Krasnoyarsk bibliophile and his family, as well as their values. An exhibition about the Decembrists in the Yenisei Province is also planned, and a children's museum-educational center will open in the estate.

The museum is situated in a merchant's country estate from the late 19th century, which Yudin built specifically for his library. His collection of books was one of the best in Russia, including about 100,000 volumes and 500,000 documentary sources, making it the largest private book collection in pre-revolutionary Russia. V. I. Lenin worked in the library building in 1897 and 1898. In 1906, Yudin sold his collection to the Washington National Library, where it became the foundation of the Slavic Division of the Library of Congress.

In 1920, the library building was nationalized, and it housed a school until 1948. In 1969, repair and restoration work was carried out, restoring the original appearance of the second floor and the interior of the room where Lenin worked. In the 1980s, repair work was also conducted, but the issue of restoring the wooden architectural monument was not raised.

In the 1990s, a branch of the local history museum "Krasnoyarsk at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries" was opened in the building. By the early 2000s, the estate began to deteriorate and sink into the ground.

In 2000, the museum was closed for a large-scale reconstruction that lasted more than 10 years. On December 2, 2014, the museum was ceremonially reopened with a new exhibition "The Library of G. V. Yudin. History. Fates. Traditions."

The new exhibition introduces visitors to the legacy of Gennady Vasilyevich Yudin, a merchant, distillery owner, bibliophile, and publisher. His library, one of the largest private collections in pre-revolutionary Russia, brought him lifetime fame. Due to the lack of buyers in Russia, Yudin sold the library to the USA, where it became the core of the Slavic Division of the Library of Congress.

A separate section of the exhibition is dedicated to the Decembrists in the Yenisei Province and contains materials about the exiled Decembrists who lived in Krasnoyarsk and other cities in the region. The exhibition halls also feature exhibitions "Antiquities of Afontova Mountain," "The Soul Called Out" about the spiritual traditions of the Yenisei Province, and "The Unknown Vonago" about the famous Krasnoyarsk photographer L. Yu. Vonago. In the Children's Museum Center of the Yudin estate, there is an exhibition of works by Krasnoyarsk artist A. P. Zolotukhin titled "The Little Train from Childhood."

The structure of the museum-estate includes the Library of Museums of Russia, created at the initiative of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Local History Museum and supported by leading museum organizations such as the Union of Museums of Russia and ICOM Russia. The library continues the Russian bibliophile traditions, of which G. V. Yudin was a worthy representative.