House-Museum of Army General I.I. Fedyuninsky

About museum

The House-Museum of the Hero of the Soviet Union, General I.I. Fedyuninsky, was established in 1981 as a branch of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. In 2008 the museum was transferred to the Ural State Military-Historical Museum. General Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky was a well-known commander of the Red Army who took an active part in events on the Chinese Eastern Railway, at the Khalkhin-Gol River, in lifting the Siege of Leningrad, and in liberating the Baltic states from the Nazi occupiers. The exhibition is arranged in three halls. In the house's entrance vestibule there is a space telling the story of the village and of Fedyuninsky's fellow villagers — veterans of wars and military actions. Temporary exhibitions are also held there. The next hall recreates the interior of a mid-20th-century village cottage — the kind of house to which Ivan Ivanovich could have returned in his later years. The last hall is devoted to the celebrated commander's military career; it is presented as a dugout from which visitors, as if together with the elderly General Fedyuninsky, recall his long combat path. The collection includes the general's personal belongings, souvenirs, documents and photographs illustrating all stages of his interesting and eventful life, as well as rural household items collected with the help of the celebrated commander's fellow villagers. Most of the collection is on display in the museum's exhibition.