To the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory: The exhibition, dedicated to the heroic defense of the fortress Oreshek, in the Leningrad region

The exhibition "Nevsky turn" opens on July 1, 2015 in the Fortress Oreshek (the Leningrad region).

The exhibition tells of the heroic defense of the fortress Oreshek during the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition displays copies of pages of the handwritten journal "Trench Oreshek" that defenders released from May 1942. This unique man-made monument is kept in the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg.

The magazine is a yearbook with handwritten articles and poems of soldiers and officers, where they talk about the life of the fortress during the defense and poems. The magazine includes many illustrations. These are portraits of fighters, landscape sketches, and satirical drawings. Magazine "Trench Oreshek" is unique that it was created directly during defense of the fortress; it is a real chronicle of those years, fixed directly to the participants of the historical events. Altogether 10 issues of the magazine were released.

The exhibition also features photos of the fortress Oreshek and Shlisselburg of the war years from the collection of the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg, a copy of the German aerial nuts and surroundings 1941-1943's, Soviet-scale map of 1941, which marked the location of troops and weapons of the Neva operational group, keeping the defense on the right bank of the Neva, from a private collection.

Comments to photos and maps are extracts from reports from the Leningrad front for 1941, declassified documents, recollections of commissioner garrison of the fortress V. A. Marulin, excerpts from diaries commander of Army Group "North" (before 1942) Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb and chief of Staff of the Supreme command of the Army of the Wehrmacht (until 1942) Franz Halder.