Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
In the very first day of the Great Patriotic War (a part of the Second World War; started when Nazi Germany invaded the USSR in 1941), Kiev virtually became a front-line city, having suffered bombardment by the Luftwaffe. 197 large industrial enterprises, 32 higher and secondary educational institutions, research institutes, and over 335,000 inhabi...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
On 7th May 1992, a relic exhibition, Oh Motherland, These Are Your Sons. The Military Duty. The Heroic Deed. The Tragedy, was opened at the National Museum of the History of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War (the Museum, for short). The exhibition told visitors about people who had participated in local wars and armed conflicts that had involved th...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
The A. S. Pushkin Museum was opened in May 1999, in Kiev, the day before the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet. The exposition is based on a collection of Yakov Berdichevsky, the Kiever and Pushkin scholar. When he left to move to Germany, he gifted his collection to the city with proviso that a museum would be established.
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