Commemorative events for the Victory Day were prepared at the Temirtau Museum

The Temirtau Museum of Local History has prepared two events for the Victory Day. The exhibition "Undelivered Point" will open in the hall "Memory" on May 2, and on May 4 the museum will present a photo installation "A Look through Time".

The exposition "Undelivered Point" is the result of the search work of the museum staff to identify Samarkand residents who died during the Great Patriotic War. Archival documents, fragments of funeral lists and lists of irretrievable losses, cards of prisoners of war and photographs will be presented here.

In total, about 230 people went to the front from the village of Samarkand (now the city of Temirtau), and only 84 of them returned home.

Currently, according to the personal lists of irretrievable losses and funeral books published on the website of the Memorial public data bank, 48 previously unaccounted-for Temirtaus soldiers have been identified.

The exposition will become a permanent part of the Memory Hall. At the same time, work on clarifying the number of Samarkand residents killed will continue.

From May 4 to May 11, Temirtaus residents will see a planar photo installation, which the museum will place on the facade of its building. "A look through time" will consist of pictures of Samarkand residents – participants of the Great Patriotic War.

"The museum has 176 wartime photographs in its collections. We put them together in the legendary photo of Yevgeny Khaldei "The Banner of Victory over the Reichstag". This photo is familiar to everyone, but for Kazakhstanis it is especially significant. On April 30, 1945, our countryman Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev, together with his colleague Grigory Bulatov, performed a feat. Under heavy fire from the defending fascists, they covered a distance of 360 meters for seven hours, advancing to the central part of the Reichstag building, and were the first to install a red banner on the stairs of the main entrance. There are still disputes about who installed the Victory banner first. It is difficult to know for sure, but it is not required. It is important to preserve the memory of all the flag bearers who stormed the Reichstag," the museum says.