Dear guests,
Welcome to our museum
«Istoki».
We
are proud of our school museum, a custodian of our history. It was opened on
the 25-th of February 2003. The main aim is to give our visitors a vivid idea
of the time, events, people.
Our school museum started as a
museum which collected everything. For over 11years the collections have gone
on growing.
Today it is a museum of old,
beautiful and interesting objects. They come from different parts of our
district and region and from hundreds of years of history. Some of them have
been made by hand. Every exhibit reveals the skill of its maker and tells us
about the time and place in which it was made.
The museum houses a rich
collection of documents and exhibits telling about the history of Inza,
factories (Diatomit-Invest, woodworking plant, nonwoven fabric factory, railway
station) culture, traditions, national costumes of people.
The museums numismatic collection numbers a lot of
medals, orders, coins, paper money.
Here you can also get acquainted with the history of
our Inzenskaya division. One cannot but forget to mention the exhibits about
the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War, local war conflicts.
There are materials about our
school and teachers.
The collections are studied by
pupils to increase their understanding of the history of our region and school.
There are educational
programmes, special events, talks and tours.
The museum offers guided tours
covering different topics for schoolchildren.
The tours are led by guides who have been trained at the Museum and last about
half an hour.
Next year we are celebrating
the 70-th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. We
pay tribute to those who forged this Great Victory. So our today's story will
be about the heroes of this war. 16,000 people of the Inzensky district went to
the front. 9,000 didn't come back.
The country highly appreciated
the heroic deeds of our countrymen. A lot of people were awarded with orders
and medals for heroism and courage. Among them there were our school teachers:
Boris Dmitrievich Ruchkin
Gennady Grigorevich Gavrilin
Alexander Sergeevich Kuzmin
Andrei Ivanovich Pyshinsky
Vladimir EfimovichPopovich
Grigory Semyonovich Zharov
During the Great Patriotic War
five people of our Inzensky district were awarded the title of Hero of the
Soviet Union.
Among the heroes of the Great
Patriotic War was our countryman Kyanzhin Pantelei Kuzmich. He took part in the
forcing of the Dniper, in liberation of Yugoslavia. He was awarded the highest
decoration: the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Larionov Alexey Alexeyevich
displayed tremendous courage during the forcing of the Neman and was awarded the
title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mizinov Mikhail Petrovich was
the pilot of a bomber. For earring out his combat missions he was awarded the
title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Tikhonov Mikhail Ivanovich was
awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for courage and heroism in summer
1944.
Khurtin Ivan Andreevich didn t
live to see the Victory Day. He died the death of a hero in the battle for the
Ukraine and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Soldier
Heroes.
During the Great Patriotic War
of 1941-1945 Soviet Army men , awarded the Order of Glory were called «soldier
heroes».
Several thousand Soviet Army
men were awarded all three classes (degrees) of the Order of Glory. Two of
these soldier heroes are from Inzensky district.
They are Potapov Alexey
Efremovich who forced the Desna and the Visla rivers and liberated Prague
saving Czechoslovak capital from destructions by the fascists and
Salygin
Ivan Alexeyevich who was one of the best scouts.
Among
the heroes of the Great Patriotic War was our country woman Elizaveta
Vologodskaya. From the very first days of the fascists aggression she was at
the front as a scout and displayed strong will, personal courage and heroism.
She helped to save Krakov from distinction by the fascists. There are books and
a film « Major Vikhr» about her heroic deeds.
In our local newspaper «Vperyod» we can read her
«Letters from Lvov» .
She often visited her native town and met with the
citizens of Inza.
In this photo you can see Elizaveta Vologodskaya and
the pupils of our school.
Vasily Ivanovich Vasin
(1923-1949)
Some streets in our town bear
the names of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
In Inza
there is Vasin street. Vasin is a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born in 1923
in the village of Voronovka of the Inzensky district.
During the forcing of the
Dnieper he was the only officer who took across his company without loss of
life. On the 12-th of October 1943 his company held a very important hill
beating off enemy attacks. Four times the fascists attacked our positions. And
four times their attacks were beaten off. The losses of Vasin's company were
heavy but it continued to hold defence. In heavy battles against a strong and
experienced enemy Vasin was wounded twice. But he didn't leave the battle
field. He destroyed 90 enemy officers and soldiers. On the 29-th of October
1943 he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
On the 6-th of November 1943 his company was the first
to break into Kiev. They raised a red banner over the City Soviet in the centre
of Ukrainian capital. Vasin took part in the liberation of Hungary. And there
he was seriously wounded in the head for the third time. He died in a military
hospital from this wound in 1949.
Vasily
Ivanovich Vasin (1923-1949)
I want to tell you about one
of the deeds performed by Vasin in the battle for the
Don.
The
hot summer of 1942. Vasin's company was fighting against the enemy infantry
near a railway road. Suddently everybody saw a little boy in a white shirt. He
stood crying near his killed mother. The shooting stopped. Silence fell over
both front lines.
What
the soldiers saw next was almost unbelievable. Vasin took off his helmet and
put his pistol aside. He rose to his full high and went towards the child.
That's how Vasin saved the child.
A moment later the air was filled with gun-fire and
the fighting resumed with renewed ferocity.
And
do you know that this Vasinvs heroic deed could well serve for
Vuchetich as a prototype of the Soviet Soldier Liberator built in Treptov Park?
The sculptor Vuchetich who was thinking over his now
famous memorial learned about this episode and decided that his monument would
reflect the heroism and humanism of the Soviet Army.
Two Soviet soldiers performed similar heroic exploits
in Berlin in 1945: Trifon Lykyanovich and Nikolai Masalov. They saved German
girls in the battles in Berlin. The sculptor sought out Masalov and spent some
time talking with him.
You can read about Vasin in
these newspapers articles.
Speaking of our great
countrymen one may not omit mentioning a test - pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union
Yuri Timofeevich Alasheyev and designer of nucler - rocket systems, Lenin and
twice State Prize Winner Serafim Mikhailovich Kulikov who brought fame to
Russian science and glorified our place.
In the unique photo you can see Yuri Alasheyev and
Serafim Kulikov. This photo was taken on the 22-nd of June 1941.
It was
the first day of the Great Patriotic War. Yuri has just finished a secondary
school and Serafim was a student of the Leningrad Air - Force Engineering
Academy.
During the Great Patriotic War
they both did their best to approach our victory and after the war they
continued to serve their Motherland.
Alaseyev was a pilot - instructor
and he was on the front in autumn 1944.
As
for Kulikov after graduating the Academy in November 1941 he was an engineer of
special equipment of planes.
In one of the war documents we can read that in 1943 Kulikov
equiped 728 planes
and repaired equipment at 652 planes
in 1944 2282 planes
1867 planes
in 1945 400 planes
521 planes
fitted out 1145 devices
This way our countrymen forged
our
Great Victory
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