Military History Museum "Sverdlovsk: This Is Moscow Speaking!"

About museum

The Military History Museum "Sverdlovsk: This Is Moscow Speaking!" opened on December 18, 2020. The museum's exhibition tells the story of the activities of the All-Union Radio Broadcasting Committee and the work of the All-Union Radio announcer, the main voice of the Victory — Yuri Levitan — in wartime Sverdlovsk from the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1943. In the autumn of 1941 the All-Union Radio Committee and the country's main voice, Yuri Levitan, were evacuated to Sverdlovsk. For a year and a half the famous phrase "Attention! This is Moscow speaking!" was broadcast from here, from the old mansion located at the corner of Radishchev and 8 Marta streets, where the museum is now located. The museum harmoniously combines traditional exhibition approaches with modern multimedia technologies. Using variable-transparency glass, the radio studio from which the broadcasts were made has been recreated, and on unique archival film footage you can see the announcer at work and hear a recording of his voice delivering urgent messages. The museum displays historical documents related to the Radio Committee's stay in Sverdlovsk; here you can learn about the crucial role of radio during the war and postwar years and see rare exhibits, such as the field telephone TAI-43, which was used on the battlefields. A separate hall is devoted to the Great Patriotic War and life in wartime Sverdlovsk — it displays household items, rare archival photographs and documents that tell about life in wartime Sverdlovsk and the labor and military feats of the people of the Urals. From December 23, 2020, until the lifting of restriction measures, the museum admits visitors only by prior appointment and provided they have personal protective equipment — masks and gloves.