Polytechnic Museum shows inventions that brought the Victory closer

The collection of the Polytechnic Museum still contains unique developments from the Great Patriotic War, which played an important role in the achievement of victory by the Soviet Union.
The staff of the repository allowed Izvestia correspondent to show the most valuable of them, to talk about their importance and use during the war years.

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One of them is a Konvas movie camera. It was used by the famous front-line cameraman Dmitry Rymarev. In the 20s of July 1941, he on the forefront with a new camera arrived at the base of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.

"That apparatus had a serial number of six. From the base of long-range aviation in Sevastopol, regular sorties were made to bomb German positions. Dmitry Rymarev wanted to get on board to take pictures. However, he was refused, as in this case the airplane could take fewer bombs. But they allowed him to install a camera on the bomber near the hatch, and the wire from it was led to the cockpit of the navigator, who pressed a button during the bombing. So we got a very good material, which literally in two weeks was shown in "Soyuzkinojournal", - said senior researcher of the Polytechnic Museum, curator of the collection of film equipment Tatiana Platonova.

During the next flight the airplane with this camera on board was overtaken by German fighters. In the Polytechnic Museum is kept an act that in the battle was lost movie camera and a stock of film to it.

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