Exhibition "Ulyanovsk — for Besieged Leningrad"

About exhibition

The citizens of Leningrad tried to evacuate what was most precious during the siege — the famous "Road of Life" remembers much. Children were transported to other cities and placed in orphanages and shelters. One of the places that welcomed young evacuees was Ulyanovsk — the orphanages of Lenin's homeland warmly received the residents of Leningrad. At that time, the present-day Apartment-Museum of the Ulyanov family functioned as a children's home. The photo-documentary materials in the exhibition, provided by the State Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad, are supplemented by documentary testimonies, photographs, children's drawings and exhibits from the Lenin Memorial's collections, among which are photographs and documents of Ulyanovsk residents who defended Leningrad: Hero of the Soviet Union sniper Pyotr Ivanovich Golichenkov and Senior Sergeant of the Medical Service Valentina Kuzminichna Menshikova, who were killed in 1941 at the very beginning of the siege on the Leningrad front, as well as Farid Subaev and Nina Olnicheva.