The Echelon of Victory will start its journey in Perm, and Nizhnevartovsk will become the final point of its route. From 10:30 to 19:30, residents will be able to visit a large mobile museum and see how ambulance cars were arranged, how bread was baked during the war, get acquainted with the military equipment of those years.

News of Perm for 04/29/2022

The Echelon of Victory will start its journey in Perm, and Nizhnevartovsk will become the final point of its route. From 10:30 to 19:30, residents will be able to visit a large traveling museum and see how ambulances were arranged, how bread was baked during the war, get acquainted with the military equipment of those years.

The historical train Echelon of Victory will pass through several municipalities of the Perm Territory. The train of 17 cars is a historical reconstruction – a large traveling museum. The train consists of restored cars that were in operation during the war years and the difficult post-war period. These are a soldier's heating car, a dressing pharmacy, a sanitary inspection room, a kitchen car, a bakery, and a power station car. Samples of historical military equipment will be exhibited on open platforms: the T-34 tank, the M-42 cannon, the Katyusha rocket launcher, the GAZ-67 car, etc. Two rare steam locomotives L-3111 and LV-123 (famous Swans).

The train will be on the first platform of the Perm 1 station on April 30 from 10:30 to 19:30. Traditionally, excursions will be held according to the composition, and a concert program will be held on the platform for the audience.

The festive atmosphere will be created by the artists of the creative association PermConcert – the ensembles Yarmarka, Resurrection, Ba-ba-tu, Alexander Andronov and Andrey Kiryakov, who will perform front-line songs and songs of the war years. The historical reconstruction will recreate the atmosphere of May 1945, when the “Victory trains” were greeted at the stations of the Soviet Union with smiles, flowers and the sound of a waltz.

Recall that over the years of the war, the railways accounted for more than 80% of the country's total cargo turnover. Military equipment, ammunition, food were transported to the front. Hospital trains saved the lives of the wounded and evacuated the victims, the rest of the trains quickly moved soldiers, transported millions of people and entire factories inland.

More than 350 thousand people from Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic States, the western regions of Russia, Leningrad and Moscow were evacuated to the city of Perm and its region by rail. Teams of 64 enterprises were also sent. For example, the Leningrad Electrotechnical Plant, a chemical plant.

During the Great Patriotic War, the fund of the Russian Museum was evacuated to Molotov by rail. Some of them were placed in the Art Gallery, some – in the Trinity Cathedral of Solikamsk. The famous Mariinsky Theater and the Leningrad Choreographic School survived the evacuation in Perm.They became the starting base, on the basis of which, after the war, the Perm ballet became one of the best in the country.

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