Exhibition "Women in War" Automatic translate
с 2 Сентября
по 20 ОктябряМузей Москвы
Зубовский бульвар, 2
Москва
On September 2, the Museum of Moscow, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow, opens the exhibition Women in War, dedicated to the role of Muscovites in military history.
Traditionally, a man appears as a warrior and protector in cinema, painting, literature and other forms of art. However, only official historiographic statistics state that the total number of Soviet women involved in hostilities was more than 800,000.
Muscovites from the first days of the invasion of German troops into the territory of the Soviet Union were eager to go to the front: they were medical instructors, scouts, signalmen, pilots, tank crews, anti-aircraft gunners, machine gunners and snipers. In the besieged capital, women had to replace men in manufacturing, transportation and civil defense. By the beginning of 1942, over 40% of Moscow workers were women and adolescents. In the first year of the war alone, so many weapons were created by their hands that Hitlerite Germany and its allies did not release during the entire war period. The working day lasted 12-16 hours, after work Muscovites went to dig trenches and anti-tank ditches in the fields near Moscow, watch on roofs at night and extinguish incendiary bombs, liquidate fires and debris after air raids, and pull the wounded out of destroyed houses.In the first months of the war, 69 large hospitals were opened in Moscow. 200 thousand women volunteered for them.
The exposition of the exhibition "Women in War" presents memories, war letters, funerals, photographs, as well as artifacts brought to the museum by Muscovites - homemade alphabet, icons, children’s drawings, a stove, a boy’s shirt. The memories of the heroines will sound in the exposition performed by actresses Olga and Maria Lapshin. Each item of the exhibition, carefully preserved to this day, is evidence of the tests that fell to the lot of the "military generation".
Curators: Irina Karpacheva, Maria Nikolaeva, Natalia Mudrova, Margarita Krol