Professor Ostroumov’s dacha was located on Trapezia Mountain in the city of Sukhumi.
In 1896, the Russian writers Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Gorky), as well as the Russian artist Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, stayed at the dacha.
Unfortunately, the original building has not survived to the present day – in 1901, Ostroumov’s dacha was rebuilt according to a design by the architect and military engineer, Staff Captain V. I. Ivanovsky.
In 1915, when Sukhumi was shelled by the German destroyer Karl der Große, Ostroumov’s dacha was once again damaged.
From 1927 onward, the entire dacha territory was repurposed for the establishment of the Institute of Experimental Medicine.
Several monkeys were brought there for medical experiments.
This became the only primate research facility in the USSR.