Description of the attraction
The Museum of Military Glory in Polotsk was established in 1971. Polotsk has a rich military history accumulated during the years of the Great Patriotic War. Underground resistance organizations worked in the city, partisan detachments inflicted significant harm on the enemies in the surrounding forests. Of course, a large amount of documentary evidence has survived about these immortal exploits of the Belarusian people.
The museum appeared thanks to the painstaking and selfless work of the researchers Olga Ivanovna Tretyakova and Vasily Andreyevich Kupriyanov.
In 1985, the museum was preparing for the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory. The Museum of Military Glory of Polotsk prepared especially carefully for this significant event. The reconstruction of the museum building was carried out, as well as the re-exhibition of museum exhibits. As a result, on May 7, 1985, the Polovtsians saw an updated collection that rethought the heroic resistance of the Belarusian people in the liberation war against the fascist invaders in a new way.
The museum details the process of creation and activity of the Polotsk fortified area, the defense of the city and the life of the Polovtsians during the Nazi occupation. A separate section of the exposition is devoted to the partisan movement in Polotsk land. There are portraits of partisans, their personal belongings, weapons of the Great Patriotic War. An exhibition dedicated to the underground resistance movement immortalized the names and portraits of the heroes. Polotsk has its own heroes - its own room of glory is dedicated to the Heroes of the Soviet Union, the Polotsk natives. A significant contribution to the common great Victory was made by the Polotsk offensive operation on June 28 - July 4, 1944, to which a whole section of the museum's exposition is devoted.
