Exhibition 'Sanitary Train'

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For the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, an exhibition was opened dedicated to the feat of military medics and railway workers who made up the legendary military-sanitary train No. 312. It was formed and sent to the front from the Vologda Locomotive and Carriage Repair Plant on June 26, 1941. These trains were essentially hospitals on wheels: they not only carried soldiers to rear hospitals but also treated them. The exhibition includes a reconstructed section of the Cherepovets station railway track with a steam locomotive and two carriages. In one of them, built in 1940, the 'Train of Mercy' exhibition is housed, presenting the interior of specialized cars: a pharmacy, an operating room, a headquarters car, a utility car, and others. The exhibition is based on the permanent collections of the Cherepovets Museum Association, as well as items donated to the museum by local residents. Interactive classes are held in the second carriage of this exhibition. This carriage was provided free of charge by Russian Railways (RZD) and has been fully restored.