🖼 Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad

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A museum in Solyanoy Gorodok: letters, diaries and belongings of siege survivors, military equipment and weapons.

The museum grew out of the exhibition “The Heroic Defence of Leningrad”, which it was decided to create during the siege itself, in December 1943.
In August 1945 the exhibition was visited by Marshal Zhukov and the American General Eisenhower.
Among the first exhibits were Tanya Savicheva's diary and an eight-metre pyramid of pierced German helmets.
By 1946 the museum had 37,654 exhibits; its first director was the historian Lev Rakov.
In 1952 the museum was closed in the course of the “Leningrad Affair”, and reopened only in 1989.
The building was built in 1901–1903 to a design by Pyotr Trifanov for the Handicrafts Museum.

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