#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On April 26, the Norilsk Museum opens the exhibition project The Path to Sanahin: the Story of an Orphanage from the funds of the State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad. In the year of the 80th anniversary of the Leningrad complete liberation from the Nazi blockade, the exhibition will tell the story of the children evacuation during the terrible war years.
The exhibition-reconstruction is based on real events that occurred in 1941–1942 with orphanage No. 51 taken out of Leningrad. The evacuation was described by the institution director, Hana Gershenok.
“In July 1941, the children were sent to the south of the Leningrad region, where the front line was rapidly approaching. As a result, the kids were returned to the city, and soon the first siege winter began, during which young Leningraders learned what hunger, piercing cold and death of loved ones were. In April 1942, children were evacuated across the ice of lake Ladoga under fascist’s fighters fire. Kindergarten children faced a multi-day journey along the country’s railways, with such travel companions as dystrophy and scurvy”, said the Norilsk Museum.
Visitors to the exhibition will find themselves in a besieged kindergarten, on the ice of lake Ladoga, in a train carriage and on a ship taking children away from the occupied Krasnodar region, will see footage of modern Sanahin (the children evacuation’s final point) and will hear those events eyewitnesses’ voices.
The project continues the cycle of exhibitions Components of the Victory at the Norilsk Museum, timed to coincide with the annual celebrations of the Victory Day. Our country’s heroic past true history will again be presented in the museum halls.
On the Day of the Great Victory, the Norilsk Museum, following the established good tradition, will invite Norilsk residents to the Regimental Dugout. Visitors will enjoy a large interactive program with the participation of creative groups.
Exhibition The Path to Sanahin: The History of an Orphanage will continue to operate until August 18, 2024.
Earlier, we reported that the Norilsk Museum showed the Leningrad siege in graphics.
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Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: Severny Gorod MC
