Primorye to the front

On the eve of Victory Day in the Main building of the Museum-Reserve of the History of the Far East named after V.K. Arsenyev, a traveling exhibition "Primorye in the Years of the War" was opened. 

On the exhibition stands photos, documents, newspaper clippings, letters, which reflect the general picture of the life of the region and the country from the first tragic day - June 22, 1941 to the Great Victory Day. As told in the museum, during the Great Patriotic War, more than 200 thousand Primorsky residents went to the front, of which 45 thousand did not return home. Our countrymen defended Moscow and Leningrad, fought in Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge, crossed the Dnieper, liberated Ukraine and Belarus, stormed Berlin. Frontline soldiers from Primorye were awarded 230,000 military awards, 104 people received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. 16 people became full holders of the Order of Glory. 

The funds of the Arsenyev Museum carefully store thousands of artifacts, genuine witnesses of those terrible years. More than 300 of them - clothes, ammunition, weapons, awards, land brought from the places of key battles, war trophies delivered by seaside deputies in 1942 from the Leningrad Front and others, are placed on display in one of the halls of the Main Building. “The traveling exhibition reveals the scale of the common disaster and focuses on “small” stories, personal tragedies and victories of the direct participants in the events of 1941-1945,” says Elena Sushko, the leading methodologist of the museum. On May 9, at 15:00, an educational program for schoolchildren will begin on its site. 

The material and photos were prepared and provided by the press service of the State United Museum-Reserve of the History of the Far East named after V.K. Arsenyev.