On June 22, the Historical Museum will offer free access to exhibitions dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

On June 2, 2025, the Day of Remembrance and Mourning, the State Historical Museum will open the exhibition "Without the right to oblivion. To the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory" and "To keep forever" in the branch of the GIM in Tula.

The exhibition "Without the right to oblivion. On the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory" is the main exhibition project of the jubilee year, prepared on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. For the first time, the historical and documentary exhibition presents a number of unique documents, many of which were previously classified. More than 500 archival documents and 700 museum exhibits demonstrate to visitors the decisive contribution of the Soviet people to the Victory over Nazism, tell about the great feat of the multinational Soviet people and the Red Army, about the enormous sacrifices made by the USSR in the name of saving the world from fascism.

At the Tula branch of the Historical Museum, at the exhibition "To Keep forever", you can see documents and photographs of weapons designers V. A. Degtyarev and F. V. Tokarev, the Order of the Red Banner of Colonel A. Ya. Vedenin, which he received for the defense of Tula. Special sections of the exhibition are dedicated to the Battle for Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the siege of Leningrad and, of course, the triumph of the victorious people. Tula residents and guests of the hero city can see photographs from the "Defense of Tula" series from the collections of the Historical Museum and the State Archive of the Tula Region, Soviet and German maps of the Tula region 1941-1942. A special relic of the exhibition is the text of Marshal G. K. Zhukov's speech with personal notes, which he delivered at the Victory Day Parade on June 24, 1945. In total, the exhibition features more than 300 exhibits reflecting the main events of the Great Patriotic War.

"June 22, 1941, forever divided the history of our country into before and after that terrible day. The lives of millions of Soviet citizens were claimed by the war – those who died at the front, in the occupied territories, died of wounds, hunger and disease, and were tortured in concentration camps. The pain of this national tragedy does not abate in our hearts even 80 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War. Today, when the immortal feat of our people in the fight against fascism is being diligently tried to be forgotten in many European countries, liberated from Nazism at the cost of the lives of Soviet soldiers, our task is to preserve and pass on to future generations the memory of this feat. Museum monuments and archival documents, being authentic historical sources, testify to how the dramatic events unfolded on the night of June 22, 1941, by what methods the Nazis and their accomplices carried out their deadly plans, and what atrocities they inflicted on Soviet prisoners of war and civilians. It's impossible to forget it all. Therefore, the names of our main exhibition projects in Moscow and Tula clearly convey the main thing – the memory of the Great Patriotic War is sacred and cannot be forgotten," says Alexey Levykin, General Director of the Historical Museum.

On June 22, 2025, all categories of visitors will be allowed to enter the exhibition "Without the right to be forgotten. To the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory" (Moscow, Revolution Square, 2/3, Exhibition Complex of the Historical Museum) and "Keep forever" (Tula, Metallistov St., 10) will be free. To visit the exhibitions, you will need to get a free ticket at the museum's ticket office.

Learn more about exhibitions on the website.