CrimeaPRESS reports:
On February 20, the opening of the photo exhibition “Firsthand History” took place in Simferopol, organized by Natalya Bezkopylnaya, an employee of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea, with the assistance of the Council of Veterans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea and the Voikovsky Territorial Council of Veterans of the city of Kerch.
Several dozen stands display photographic portraits of people who survived the difficult war and post-war years. Everyone is imbued with the spirit of courage and bravery, in every wrinkle of the heroes is hidden the history of our country, the history of self-sacrifice, courage and perseverance of our peoplereports the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.
Efim Ivanovich Makarov found the war as a 15-year-old teenager, who was always refused at the military registration and enlistment office when he decided to go to the front. And only in 1943 he volunteered to join the active army. Participated in the Manchurian offensive of 1945.
In 1941, Nina Petrovna Kovaleva traveled alone from German-occupied Belarus to the city of Saratov, where she completed stoker courses and took part in the Battle of Stalingrad on the Volzhskaya Kommuna steamship.
One of the heroes of the exhibition, veteran of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, retired police colonel Konstantin Korshunov, visited the exhibition as an honorary guest. Konstantin Alekseevich himself survived the siege of Leningrad as a child and he shared his memories with his listeners:
In the city there were Badayevsky warehouses, where there was food that would have been enough for 3-4 months, but it was bombed by the Nazis. It burned for a whole week. People from the ashes took what they could carry…
Photo stories created by the author will help preserve the memory of the past and convey to the future generation evidence of the heroic confrontation of our people, so that every family knows at what cost the Victory was won.
Natalya Bezkopylnaya’s photo exhibition “Firsthand History” is located in the building of the Crimean Republican Library for Youth (Kechkemetskaya St., 94-A). The exhibition will last until February 26 and is available to everyone from 10:00 to 18:00. Free admission.
Photos and materials: press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea.
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