Partisan Glory Museum 'Bolshoy Dub'

About museum

On October 17, 1942, Nazi German forces struck the settlement of Bolshoy Dub, resulting in the execution of 44 civilians, including 26 children and five infants. To remember the victims of fascist terror, on May 9, 1975 a memorial complex 'Bolshoy Dub' was opened on the site of the settlement. The memorial includes an Eternal Flame, a sculptural composition, log houses with stove chimneys marking the sites of former homes, burials of the victims of fascism and soldiers of the Red Army. In 1977 a Partisan Glory Museum was opened on the territory, exhibiting photographs and personal belongings of the commanders and fighters of the 1st Kursk Partisan Brigade, materials on partisan life and the tragedy of settlements in the Zheleznogorsk district, as well as a model reconstruction of the Bolshoy Dub settlement and a fragment of the tree that gave it its name. The second hall of the museum presents materials on the liberation of the area and the participation of Zheleznogorsk residents in the Great Patriotic War. The museum is a branch of OBUK 'Kursk Regional Museum of Local Lore'.