The East Crimean Museum-Reserve participates in the International Competition «Museums about Victory»

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The Kerch East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve takes part in the International Competition «Museums about Victory». Its employees submitted two videos about the Museum of the Defense History of the Adzhimushkay Quarries to the competition. You can vote for ours online (voting will last until October 2022).

Senior Researcher of the Department of the History of the Great Patriotic War Valentina Klimchuk spoke about the exhibition «Soldier’s Fates», created for the 80 anniversary of the beginning of the defense of the Adzhimushkay quarries (link to a video recording with the possibility of voting).

Researcher of the Department of Scientific and Educational Work Olga Reshetnikova spoke about the structural features of the pylons of the Adzhimushkay Memorial Complex and the history of their construction (

link to the video recording with the possibility of voting).

In total, the competition received more than 130 videos with stories about museum expositions related to the events of the military history of the middle of the 20th century from more than 120 museums of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Moldova. 80 videos were allowed to participate in the competition.

The competition is dedicated to the 77 anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and is organized within the framework of the International Project «Territory of Victory» together with the All-Russian Public Organization of Veterans (Pensioners) of War and Labor with the support of the Russian news agency «Victory of the Russian Federation». The purpose of the competition is to popularize museum expositions related to the military and labor feat of the Soviet people during the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War , the organizers said.

331469 Summing up and announcement of the winners will take place on November 3 77 of the year. The solemn ceremony of awarding the winners is planned to be held within the framework of the IX St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum.

331469Photos and materials: press service of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea.