The Museum of Russian-Armenian Friendship opened on 25 November 2011 in the nineteenth century mansion of the Armenian merchant M. Iskidarov on Ploshchad Svobody in Rostov-on-Don. A branch of the Rostov Regional Museum of Local History, it tells the story of Armenian Nakhichevan-on-Don and succeeds the museum that occupied the Surb Khach church from 1972 until 2007. Open Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 6pm.