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The reserve museum "The Breakthrough
of the Siege of Leningrad" is located on the southern
shore of Ladoga Lake where severe battles for Leningrad took
place in January 1943.
The German blockade of Leningrad when the
city stayed cut off from the mainland for 900 days is one
of the most dramatic episodes of Great Patriotic War (World
War II). It was not only artillery shelling and air raids
that the city residents suffered from, but extreme hunger
and cold with no chances to replenish supplies. No one knows
how many people died in the siege but some researchers report
the stunning number of 800 ths.
It is here, near the village of Mar'ino
and the town of Kirovsk, that the armies of the Volkhovsky
and Leningradsky fronts closed up in the course of brutal
combats and the siege was broken which greatly relieved situation
in Leningrad, but the prolonged siege was fully lifted in
late 1944 only.
The reserve museum "The Breakthrough
of the Siege of Leningrad" includes the Diorama museum
near Mar'ino, memorial complex "Nevsky Pyatachok (Patch)"
in Kirovsk 3 km far from Mar'ino and monuments on the Sinyavinskie
heights and the spot of initial meeting of the Russian fronts,
and in the Oreshek fortress.
The Diorama located in the left bank ramp
of the Ladozhsky bridge across the Neva River is the conceptual
and decorative core of the reserve museum. It was opened to
public on May 7,1985 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of
the Victory Day. It creates a grandiose representation of
the combat with the inward bent background bar of the diorama
presenting painted scenes of the battle and the near part
showing three-dimensional objects. The diorama was designed
by Leningrad artists, the war and battle veterans Yu.Garikov,
L.Kabachek, B.Kotik, N.Kutuzov, G.Moltennikov, F.Savost'anov
and V.Seleznev.
The Diorama museum also features the unique
collection of postcards and posters published in the war times.
Besides regular tours, special events can
be arranged in the museum on order.
The exhibition hall of the reserve museum,
situated in the town of Kirovsk (1.5 km far from the Diorama)
houses diverse rotating shows.
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