An exhibition has opened at the Cholponbai Tuleberdiev Museum «There is no death for the heroes of Brest!»
The Cholponbai Tuleberdiev Museum hosted the opening of a historical and documentary exhibition «There is no death for the heroes of Brest!», prepared by the Center for Historical and Cultural Heritage KRSU. The author of the exhibition was Candidate of Historical Sciences Leonid Sumarokov, who personally presented the exhibition to its visitors.The opening participants were students of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, representatives of the Border Service of the Kyrgyz Republic, museum staff, teachers and residents of the capital interested in the history of the Great Patriotic War.The exhibition is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The lines chosen as its title were from a poem by Robert Rozhdestvensky «If only the stones could speak».The exhibition tells about the feat of Kyrgyz soldiers who were among the first to meet the enemy on June 22, 1941 on the western borders of the Soviet Union. Particular attention is paid to the defenders of the Brest Fortress and border guards who took part in an unequal battle with Nazi troops in the first hours of the war.The exhibition presents archival documents, photographs, materials from the front-line press of the first days of the war and other historical evidence that allow us to see the fate of heroes who showed courage and loyalty to military duty during one of the most tragic periods in history.The exhibition is designed to preserve the memory of the feat of the defenders of the Fatherland and introduce young people to little-known pages of the participation of Kyrgyzstanis in the events of the Great Patriotic War.
