Выставка «Фронтовики» Переосмысление музейной коллекции

Life in Khabarovsk Krai during the Great Patriotic War is life on two fronts at once: both in the rear and on the front line. Based on materials from the museum's collection, the exhibition will tell about how life was organized in the harshest conditions of the war. About working conditions in factories and enterprises, in agriculture and institutions, about the difficulties of everyday life. About how some inhabitants of the region helped the front-line soldiers, and how others fought the enemy in the most difficult moments of the battle for Moscow and Stalingrad. About how they approached the Victory in the rear and defended it at the front.

Among the exhibits at the exhibition will be footage from films of the Far Eastern wartime newsreel studio. The enterprises of the region restructured their work to produce defense products, established the production of weapons, repair and production of tanks, ships, planes. Shells for 120-millimeter mortar will be presented. At the same time, the strictest economy of resources forced to find new opportunities. Thus, the Nature Department of the Grodekovo Museum together with the Department of Pharmacology of the Medical Institute identified medicinal and vitamin-containing plants, prepared instructions for their collection and harvesting, and supervised the collection of such plants among schoolchildren. Such herbarium will be presented at the exhibition. Materials about sending gifts to the front, assistance to sponsored orphanages and military units by the Khabarovsk branch of the MOPR. The items at the exhibition will be supplemented by a set of documentary materials: photographs, memoirs and diary entries, letters and telegrams, documents, which will make it possible to reproduce the biographies of all those who went to the front and those who stayed behind.

The exhibition "In the Footsteps of Postal Lines" will be placed in the "Children's Museum" co-working space, where epistolary heritage and visual propaganda of wartime, including amateur propaganda, as well as the work of the post office and the press will be presented. The exhibition materials reflect a wide palette of wartime: everyday life, events at the front and in the rear, psychological mood, as well as front and rear folklore. Here visitors can get acquainted with the front letters from the museum collection: personal correspondence of the Kiberev family from Khabarovsk, an instruction to their son sent from the front by Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Pavlovich, letters to the Khabarovsk "three hundredth woman" Valentina Drozdova with responses to the publication about her hard work in the newspaper. Khabarovsk posters of the series "Strike on the enemy", which were created by artists and poets I. Gorbunov, D. Nagishkin, V. Pavchinsky, S. Feoktistov, P. Komarov and others, along with the press, with telegraphic efficiency presented Khabarovsk citizens with operational information about events at the front. A special original genre - wartime wall newspapers, made in collective farms and enterprises of the region, vividly express the attitude to slackers and lazy people, caricature mockery of the enemy.

A separate section of the exhibition will present materials of the field expedition of the Khabarovsk branch of the Russian Search Movement to the battlefields of the 205th Infantry Division (SD). In July 1942 the division was redeployed from Khabarovsk to Stalingrad and on August 30 was disbanded, as it was almost completely lost.