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The Kalinin Front Museum is a museum dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War and the fighting on the territory of the Kalinin (now Tver) region.

The museum is a branch of the Tver State United Museum.

History of creating museum
The museum was opened in 2005 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in memory of the events that took place in 1941 on the right, northern flank of the Battle of Moscow.

The museum has two exhibition halls - an exhibition hall and a lecture hall. The artistic design and color scheme of the exposition are aimed at recreating the spirit of wartime. The materials of the first hall reflect the events of the first months of the Great Patriotic War, the fighting on the territory of the region, the defense and liberation of the city of Kalinin. In the showcases there are diagrams that allow you to see the plans of the German command in the Kalinin area, to trace the course of military operations around the city. Photos and documents of defenders and liberators of the city give an opportunity to find out their names, tell about concrete examples of heroism of Soviet people. A set of materials on the creation of the Kalinin Front is singled out separately.

In one of the showcases of the hall there are samples of weapons, items of equipment of the Wehrmacht soldiers. The other one presents unique exhibits: an authentic red flag that was hoisted over the Kalinin river station on the day of its liberation on December 16, 1941, bloody Komsomol tickets of soldiers who died in the battles for the city.

Exposition
The museum's exposition features a diorama "The Battle for the Tveretsky Bridge", which occupies a central place in one of the halls of the museum. Its plot reflects the true fact when the gunners of the 5th battery of the 531st artillery Regiment under the command of Lieutenant A.I. Katsitadze, with the support of the soldiers of the 4th company of the 937th Rifle Regiment under the command of Lieutenant N.M. Bukshenko, in the area of the Fire Square in Kalinin, for three days closed the German troops the way to the Volga region through the Tveretsky Bridge. The exhibits of the second hall of the museum tell about the fighting of the Kalinin Front in 1942-1943: eight offensive and one defensive operations conducted by the troops of the front both independently and jointly with other troops of other fronts.

In the exhibition you can see photos of the house where I.V. Stalin, as well as photos of the commander of the Kalinin Front, Colonel-General A.I. Eremenko.

The central place in the second hall is occupied by an artistic composition, which contains basic information about the Kalinin Front.

In the lecture hall of the museum there are photographs of the Kalinin Front correspondent B.E. Vdovenko and the works of German photographers.

The exhibition hall houses the stationary exhibition "Childhood scorched by war".

There are several objects on the museum's territory: a mass grave where soldiers who died in the battles for Emmaus are buried; a platform with samples of artillery pieces; a field kitchen with wooden trunks and benches.

В музейном пространстве проводятся интерактивные программы:

1.) "At-bats, soldiers were coming!", where the participants of the program try on the roles of fighters of the Kalinin Front. 2.) The quest "From Kalinin to Koenigsberg", where participants attend an excursion before the start of the game to have a general idea of the museum, to understand the scheme of the exposition, the location of halls and exhibits, and at the next stage receive a package with a task, which includes an individual map and a Red Army book with a tear-off coupon for completing a museum quest.

Literature

 * В пламени войны…: Калин. обл. в годы Велик. Отеч. войны в экспозициях Твер. объед. музея, 1941-1945 / Твер. гос. объед. ист. - архитектур. и лит. музей. - Тверь, 1990. - 16 с.: ил., портр.; 20 см
 * Кривцов Н.В. Земля Тверская [Текст]: [12+] / Н. В. Кривцов. - Москва: Вече, 2015. - 383 с., [8] л. цв. ил.: ил.; 21 см. - (Исторический путеводитель).; ISBN 978-5-4444-0710-3: 1200 экз.
 * Фронты, флоты, армии, флотилии периода Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 гг.: Справочник. М., 2003.
 * «Совершенно секретно! Только для командования». М., «Наука», 1966.
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 * Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945. Военно-исторические очерки. В четырех книгах. Кн. 2, М., 1998, с. 25.
 * Кондратьев В. О войне написано не все // Земля рождения, земля судьбы. – М., 1987.
 * Фронтовая газета «Вперед на врага». Редакторы: подполковник Моценок Михаил Александрович (1905-?), полковник Селих Яков Григорьевич (1892—1967), полковник Кассин Николай Семенович (1907—1960).
 * Калининский фронт // Военная энциклопедия / П. С. Грачёв. — Москва: Военное издательство, 1995. — Т. 3:«Д»—«Квартирьер».
 * Горбачев А.Н. Военные газеты периода 1900-2018 гг. из фондов Российской Государственной библиотеки и архивов РФ: Краткий справочник. М., Infogans, 2019.

Links

 * 1) The official page of the museum on the website of the Tver State United Museum
 * 2) The official page of the museum on the portal "PRO.Culture.RF"
 * 3) The official page on the website of the Tourist portal of the Tver region
 * 4) The museum's official page on the VKontakte social network
 * 5) The official page of the museum on the website "Museums of Russia"