World history: The first Museum of the World War I to be created in the Kaliningrad region

In the Kaliningrad region will be open a Museum of the World War I. The idea belongs to the Ministry of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky, and the Western Province government supported it. The Kaliningrad region is the only area of ​​the country where the fighting of the most ambitious campaign of the last century took place.

- The Ministry is ready to take on the work of the organization and content of the museum, which will be performed at the expense of the state budget - said V. Medinsky. - The museum will receive federal status. In turn, the region has assured that it would take over the allocation of land and landscaping.

The Minister of Culture of Russia during his recent visit to the Kaliningrad region proposed to organize a museum of the World War I at one of the forts of Kaliningrad – fort № 3, which in Kaliningrad for a long time has a fame of mystic citadel over its maze of many historical mysteries.

A powerful bastion, built in the century before last, was originally called "Kvednau", then - "King Frederick III". He covered Konigsberg with directions of Kranz, now Zelenogradsk. Now the fort is abandoned and empty.

According to the plans of the local authorities, the doors to the first visitors to the Museum of the World War I will be open in August next year, in time for the centenary of the beginning of a grand battle.