More than 250 front-line letters were handed over for the new exhibition of the Victory Museum

The Victory Museum has extended the Voices of Victory project until April 30, in which everyone can voice frontline letters from their family archives and send them for eternal storage to the museum on Poklonnaya Gora. All audio recordings will be included in the new large-scale exhibition "The Path to Victory", which will open on the 80th anniversary of the Victory.

"Within the framework of the project, the lines of letters from the war years will not only sound, but the heroes of the past will also come to life, giving descendants the opportunity to better know and understand the feelings of the Soviet people — their courage and bravery, unflagging hope and faith in the inevitable victory over the enemy," the Victory Museum emphasized.

In total, since the launch of the project in December 2024, the Victory Museum has received over 250 digitized letters from the Great Patriotic War and audio tracks with their voiceover. Among the participants of the action are museum staff who voiced front—line letters from their stock collections, descendants of veterans who read the "triangles", carefully preserved in families for eight decades.

"The project did not leave many residents of our country indifferent, who found in their family archives memorable messages written by grandfathers and great-grandfathers in moments of calm on the battlefield, and voiced them. Federal, regional and municipal cultural institutions and school museums have also joined the collection of letters," the Victory Museum noted.

The project participants sent digitized letters covering the entire war period from 1941 to 1945. In the living chronicle of the war, one can trace the chronology of the events of the Great Patriotic War, understand what happened on different fronts — on land, in the sky, at sea. For example, in January 1945, front-line soldier Sergei Poplaukhin wrote to his wife and children about how he and his fellow Red Army soldiers were already marching on German soil, which meant that "victorious battle banners will soon march through the streets of Berlin." In the rare news from the front, you can feel the strength of a Soviet soldier, see how the soldiers, being at the front, wanted to take part in the lives of their relatives, even if they were far from them. In one of the letters on the eve of the New Year, 1944, Vasily Belov writes congratulations to his son Igor and wishes him happiness and success in his studies, recalls the time when they celebrated the holiday together, and is sure that the Christmas tree will burn brightly again soon and a joyful New Year will come.

Employees of museums with collections of wartime letters, as well as all interested children and adults, are invited to participate in the project. They need to select the most striking fragments of letters, make audio recordings and photographs of them, and also tell about the author. As part of the project, letters will resound with the voices of the descendants of veterans in the halls of the new exhibition of the Victory Museum.

To join the project, you need to fill out a special form on site The Victory Museum.