History of Russia: Exhibition “August, 1941 – January, 1944. To the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Novgorod from Nazi invaders” in the Novgorod Kremlin

January 20, 2014 at the Children's Museum Center of the Novgorod Museum Reserve opened an exhibition "August, 1941 – January, 1944. To the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Novgorod from Nazi invaders". The exhibition is devoted to one of the most tragic and at the same time glorious pages of the Novgorod history - the period of the Great Patriotic War in Novgorod and its surroundings, from the first days of the war until the liberation of the city on January 20, 1944.

The exhibition consists of three sections. The first one features items of prewar life of Novgorod, Novgorod photos with views of the 1930s, set of photographs and documents of V. D. Vasilyeva, who lived in 1941 in Novgorod, as well as documents related to the defense of Novgorod in August 1941.

The second section, devoted to the period of the German occupation of Novgorod, includes unique, not previously published and showed photos with views of the city from 1941-1943 from private collections, German leaflets and other publications of the occupation authorities, crafts occupiers of plating dome of St. Sophia Cathedral, models of weapons and uniforms of Wehrmacht.

Feats of the soldiers and commanders of troops of the Volkhov front are reflected in the third section, which presents photographs, documents, awards, personal belongings of participants fighting near Novgorod and its release, a unique document autographed liberators left on January 23, 1944, copies of banners of military units and formations, participated in the liberation of the city, uniforms and equipment of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War.

The exhibition will run till February 28, 2013.