Museum of Partisan Glory

About museum

In 1977, in the village of Pozhnya in the Toropetsky District, a building was opened that incorporated a branch of the Tver State United Museum of History, Architecture and Literature. In the Pozhnya–Sheyno area, covered with forests and swamps, the period of the Great Patriotic War saw the establishment of bases for Kalinin, Belarusian and Latvian partisans. The museum displays documents and materials attesting to the crimes of the Nazi forces in the occupied territory of Kalinin Oblast, as well as exhibits related to the development of the nationwide partisan movement, the combat actions of partisan detachments and brigades, the work of underground district committees of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and the military alliance of partisans of Kalinin Oblast, Belarus and Latvia. The exhibition includes weapons, personal belongings of partisans, underground newspapers, leaflets and a portable printing press. The museum also demonstrates the development of the partisan movement in the temporarily occupied territories of Toropetsky District and Kalinin Oblast (now Tver and Pskov oblasts).