For the 80th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill opened a large-scale exhibition "Path to Victory" (6+). The multimedia exhibition occupies an area of almost 4.5 thousand square meters and is dedicated to the military valor of the soldiers of the Red Army. It is a true frontline chronicle of the war in the faces and military fates of Red Army soldiers, both commanders and ordinary fighters.
Part of the new exhibition is the interactive complex "Relics of Victory." It presents over 160 authentic rarities from the Victory Museum's collections, as well as from the collections of capital, regional and school museums of Russia and the Republic of Belarus. Among them are unique items from the collection of the Kirov Regional Museum of Local Lore named after P.V. Alabin — a rifle with a telescopic sight, a camouflage smock jacket and the personal diary of the legendary Soviet sniper, our compatriot Nikolai Ivanovich Galushkin.
Nikolai Galushkin's rifle is an award weapon. It bears two metal plates with engravings indicating the number of fascists killed by the sniper. The camouflage smock jacket shows the hero's bloodstains — it was on Galushkin when he was wounded. In his personal diary Nikolai not only described life at the front and chronicles of battles, but also kept a tally of enemies struck down by his bullet.
Thanks to special technologies, the relics literally come to life, presenting a map of the military operations in which their owner took part and displaying photographs and video materials about his life and feat.
The exhibition also includes a unique complex of "animated dioramas", a Digital Information Library, and the use of the latest multimedia technologies. All this allows visitors to the museum on Poklonnaya Hill to fully immerse themselves in the atmosphere of soldiers' front-line daily life and the fierce fighting at the front, and to gain a fuller, more comprehensive understanding of the effort and the price at which the common Victory was won.
In total, about 100 museums participated in the implementation of this grand project — participants of the International Project "Territory of Victory" and members of the Association of Historical and Military-Historical Museums.
