Menzelinsk Memorial Museum of Musa Jalil

About museum

\r\nOn March 3, 1970, the Musa Jalil Memorial Museum was opened. It is located in the pedagogical college in a building constructed in 1917, which is a monument of the republic's 20th-century architecture. During the Great Patriotic War, military-political courses were based here, where the Tatar poet Musa Jalil lived and studied from November 7, 1941 to January 1, 1942. He was named a Hero of the Soviet Union (1956) and was a laureate of the Lenin Prize (1957). Today his poems have been translated into 56 languages. The museum features interior exhibits that allow visitors to feel the atmosphere of that time, as well as original household items and documents, relics, and editions of Musa Jalil's poems. Readings of the works of the poet-hero are held at the museum to honor his memory. Visiting the museum, one can immerse oneself in the atmosphere of the 1940s, learn about how people lived then, and hear about encounters with this remarkable man.