Municipal Museum of Remembrance of Internationalist Warriors 'Shuravi'

About museum

The Museum of Remembrance of Internationalist Warriors 'Shuravi' was opened on October 30, 1991 at the initiative of veterans of the war in Afghanistan, who at different times studied at the Ural State Pedagogical Institute (now UrGPU). The museum's founders included the administration of the city of Yekaterinburg, the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans, and the Ural State Pedagogical University.

The core of the museum's exhibition consists of personal belongings, photographs, documents and written memoirs of direct participants in the hostilities in Afghanistan. The museum also displays numerous material testimonies of the past related to the participation of Soviet servicemen in wars and local conflicts of the second half of the 20th century in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Angola and Somalia. In total, the museum's collection holds more than 8,000 items. Currently the museum is actively working on a number of military-historical projects, among them: 'Little Soldiers of a Great Country', 'The Pedagogical Feat. Beyond Time', 'War Made Them Peers', 'Memory of the Land of Sevastopol'. Today the 'Shuravi' museum is a focal point for veterans of all wars and local conflicts of the 20th–21st centuries, having gained the informal status of the main veterans' museum. Being the first thematic memorial museum of this kind in the country, it still adheres to the principle: 'In memory of the fallen. For the living. In the name of truth.'