– “Curiosities of the military history museums of Belarus and Russia” – from books that return our memory to the dramatic and heroic events of the great Patriotic war. Return with such force that acquaintance with almost every page makes it beat faster. The publication was prepared on the initiative of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Belarus Dmitry Fedorovich Mezentsev, and with the support of the Permanent Committee of the Union state and the all-Russian public organization “Russian military historical society”. Under one cover a collection of information, illustrations dedicated to the most important 100 exhibits from the collections of the major military history museums of Belarus and Russia.
And this is the Victory Museum, Belarusian state Museum of great Patriotic war history, State historical and memorial Museum-reserve “battle of Stalingrad”, the Memorial complex “Brest fortress-hero”, the Sevastopol military-historical Museum-reserve, State memorial complex “Khatyn”. Since school time we know of the legendary cavalry General Lev Dovator, who died in December 1941 near Moscow. Dozens of streets in the cities of Russia and Belarus and even in Kazakhstan and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States bear his name. Our album open pages on the T-34 with the name on the tower, “Dovator”. Fighting vehicle, mounted in the Museum of Victory, – one of military rarities. 13 Dec 1942 T-34 tanks from the part of the 1st battalion of the 33rd armored brigade supported in battle near the village of Ostrovito Velikoluksky district of the Pskov region and units of the 44th infantry division. In the heat of battle T-34 tank fell through the ice, but the crew managed to escape. On Board tank recovered from the swamp, inscriptions “Dovator” and “the banner of t-bills”. The tank was donated to the Museum of Victory in 2001.
page after Page before the reader and the viewer is presented with a unique virtual tour of the leading military-historical museums of the Union state of Belarus and Russia. No, rather, a tour of the war. So boldly significant look exhibits that the impression of presence on the battlefield. The impression about encounters with people who bore the brunt of the pain and tragedy of the great Patriotic… Fragment aspen impressive size (height and four in diameter one meter) with embedded into it after the explosion of a four-meter steel spar ZIS-6, which is mounted launcher BM-13 – the legendary “Katyusha”.
a fragment of memory from the last battle battery of captain Flerov under Vyazma… exercise book Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya… Gemmasterka defender of the Brest fortress Lieutenant Alexei Naganova… a letter to the Belarusian children, which in the beginning of the great Patriotic war was evacuated to Ashgabat, soldiers and officers of the 1st Byelorussian front, with gratitude for the liberation of Belarus and Minsk from Nazi invaders. For many years as an expensive relic is an epistolary message kept in his archive of Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky. Now a letter is the Belarusian state Museum of the great Patriotic war.
In his opening remarks to the album Union state Secretary Grigory Rapota addressed to all who honor the memory of the great Patriotic war, these words: “a Significant part of its history, the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation were part of a single state. But not only so two people, two countries are linked by close ties of political-economic Union, historical and cultural community. The most important and most heroic event in our history was the struggle and the victory in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945. We defended the Fatherland, won the Victory over the treacherous foe, whose very presence in our land threatened to destroy the country and our people.
the Federal government, which 20 years ago was United Belarus and Russia, is a continuation of our community and consanguinity of the two peoples. We were together in the battles of the great Patriotic war, stay together in peace. I think that it is worthy of the memory of our heroic ancestors-the winners”. From album “Rarities of the military history museums of Belarus and Russia”, which was published on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the great Victory, starts its own story. It will be linked to the fact that its pages will reveal to students, young people, historians and ethnographers will reveal all, who thinks that the rarities came from battles of the war, forever remained deadly weapon against the destroyers of the world.
I bow to all who worked on the “Rarities” – Museum workers of the two countries, to the publishers of the encyclopedic, printers. By the way, the book is at a decent level printed in Minsk Printing plant named after Yakub Kolas square.
