An exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the feat of the underground patriotic theatrical group “Falcon” was presented at KFU.

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The opening of a photo exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the feat of the participants of the Simferopol underground patriotic theatrical group “Falcon” took place in the reading room of the Scientific Library of the Crimean Federal University.

To study the feat of the Crimean underground fighters in the republic, a research group was created, which included local historians, historians, as well as students of cadet classes of Simferopol School No. 7 named after. A.V. Mokrousova. Over the course of two years, the group members did a lot of work using materials from the archives of Crimea, Moscow and St. Petersburg, which made it possible to study the stages of formation, activities and death of the Sokol group.

The result of the work was the documentary film “In Unity,” created by school cadets from school No. 7 in Simferopol, as well as the scientific book “Having played the main roles…” authored by Vladimir Bobkov and Natalya Dovgel.

We have set ourselves a rather ambitious task — to raise and explore a topic that has eluded historians and scientists for many years. We really wanted to be in time for the 80th anniversary of the tragic death of the members of the Sokol group and, accordingly, their feat. We did it. The book uses a huge amount of documentary material; many archives were brought up not only in Crimea, not only in Simferopol and not only in our country. The illustrative material is fundamental, since 2/3 of the photographs are published for the first time. Most of them are collected in originals and are kept only in personal collections. This, of course, made our work difficult, but interesting. In addition, I am glad that the film made by our Crimean schoolchildren received a great response. If you treat children’s initiatives with professionalism and depth, it gives a very unexpected and positive result.– the press service of the university quotes the Deputy Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea, Vladimir Bobkov.

The exhibition displays photographs of members of the underground group and theater workers, their personal documents, theater posters, photographs of performances, the city of Simferopol during the occupation, as well as photographs of the removal of the bodies of executed actors from the ground and the citizens bidding farewell to them. Most of the materials are taken from the personal collection of Vladimir Bobkov.

The underground patriotic group “Falcon” was the only one in the occupied part of the USSR that consisted of cultural workers. It included about 15 employees of the Crimean Drama Theater (today the Crimean Academic Russian Drama Theater named after Maxim Gorky). They were engaged in collecting information about the deployment of enemy military units, collecting and transferring medicines and clothing for partisans to leave the forest for occupied cities, as well as for organizing escapes of prisoners of war. Thanks to their conscious civic position, not a single anti-Soviet play was staged in the Simferopol theater during the occupation of Crimea. History has preserved information only about those group members who were killed by the Nazis on April 11, 1944 on the territory of the former Krasny state farm (Dubki tract).

In the coming week, a copy of the book “Having played your main roles…” will be transferred to the collection of the Scientific Library of the Crimean Federal University.

source: KFU press service

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