Government of the Tver region Tver
The “Faces of Victory” project has been launched
On the eve of May 9, the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow invites residents of the Tver region to join the large-scale national project “Faces of Victory”, designed to preserve the memory of the military generation.
“On the front line and in the rear, Soviet citizens have accomplished a feat that history knows no equal,” Governor Igor Rudenya said. “The memory of the feat of the defenders of our Fatherland will always live in our hearts.”
The objective of the project is to preserve the memory of all those who contributed to the Great Victory, to increase the historical culture of the citizens.
“This project gives everyone the opportunity to perpetuate the memory of loved ones who fought at the front, fought underground or partisan detachments who worked in the rear, and to transfer their family histories for eternal storage at the Museum of Victory,” said the director of the Victory Museum, deputy secretary of the RF Public Chamber Alexander Shkolnik.
Residents of the Tver region have already passed on thousands of stories about their relatives.
So, for example, the archive contains information about Dioskar Ivanovich Drigo (He was born in Tver on March 3, 1914 in the family of provincial secretary Ivan Lukyanovich Drigo and Tver petty bourgeoise Vera Alexandrovna. The Institute of Architecture of Moscow was drafted into the Red Army in July 1941. He completed a two-month course for lieutenants. He served as a senior lieutenant in the 137th Rifle Regiment of the 220th Rifle Division. He died in action on January 28 1942 near the village of Deshevki, Rzhevsky district.Buried in a mass grave in the village of Polunino, Rzhevsky district.
A relative’s photo and biography are needed to add history to the project. You can submit materials through the facepobedy.rf project website, after verification by the moderators, the map with the information will become available for search on the portal.
In addition, the Victory Museum has created a multimedia exhibition “Faces of Victory”, and each participant of the project, having arrived in Moscow, can come to the museum and show the portrait of his ancestor to his children and grandchildren on large screen.
In addition, school museums throughout Russia are offered to open their sections on the official website of the project in the face of victory.rf. A lot of patriotic work is being done in the country’s educational organizations – memory books, various creative and research projects are being created that tell about school graduates, great-grandparents of students. A special section will collect all these unique materials in a single database, digitize them, make them accessible to as many people as possible and perpetuate the memory of the heroes of their schools for future generations.
The national historical project “Faces of Victory” was launched on the initiative of the Victory Museum on December 3, 2019. Today, the project has more than 850,000 family stories. They are biographies of veterans and home front workers. The database is constantly updated with new personalities.
