World history: The exhibition “Winter-autumn ’45 in the front lens of photographers” in Kaliningrad

In the Kaliningrad Regional History and Art Museum with the support of the Regional Ministry of Culture and the Russian Military and Historical Society opened the exhibition "Winter-Spring '45". The theme of this exhibition was identified by two significant cultural and historical events of our country - 70 Year Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the Year and Literature in Russia. The exhibition features unique front-line photos, accompanied by poems from the works by A. T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin" and A. I. Solzhenitsyn' "Prussian Nights", as well as memories of participants of the East Prussian operation in 1945.

During the East-Prussian strategic operation of the 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts and the 1st Baltic Front broke through the powerful German defenses, eliminated the main enemy forces occupying East Prussia and the northern part of Poland. Those events are depicted in the photographs of frontline photographers V. I. Arkashev, E. N. Yevzerikhin, M. I. Savin and A. I. Stanovov.

When creating the exhibition were used materials from the collections of the Kaliningrad Regional History and Art Museum, the Russian State Film and Photo Archive in Krasnogorsk, the Central State Archive of Film in Saint Petersburg, the Central Archives of audiovisual and electronic documents in Moscow and the family archive, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General Aviation T. T. Khryukin.