Exhibition of the Yaroslavl Museum of Military Glory

About exhibition

The focus of the museum exhibition is Yaroslavl with its easily recognizable urban landscapes, as well as the personal stories of Yaroslavl residents — war heroes and home-front workers. Visitors can try to understand how people lived day by day and how everyday life changed when war intruded. The exhibition not only shows how natives of the Yaroslavl region fought on various fronts of the Great Patriotic War, but also tells about life on the home front and about the women and children who bore the hardships of the war years. An important theme of the museum exhibition is wartime childhood: this is conveyed through children's drawings from the war years, personal belongings and toys, and documents about the labor of children and adolescents during the war. In addition to exhibits related to personal histories, only at the Museum of Military Glory can one see authentic examples of Soviet and German firearms and cold weapons, mines, grenades and shells from the war. Modern multimedia equipment enriches the exhibition with documentary archival film and photographic materials. With the help of televisions, projectors and digital screens, museum visitors can see Yaroslavl in 1938, documentary chronicles from the front, work in rural areas and the production of shells at factories, and the ceremonial reception in the Northern Fleet of the submarine 'Yaroslavsky Komsomolets'. An important part of the museum collection is the park of Soviet-era military equipment in front of the museum building.