The exhibition was created in the diorama “Battle for the Dnipro” based on the materials of the excavations carried out at the sites of fierce battles on the bridgehead in the area of the villages of Viyskove-Vovnyga of the Solonya District of the Dnipropetrovsk Region by the “Search-Dnipro” public organization, headed by Yevhen Hryhorovych Trushenko.
The exhibition presents the remnants of the weapons of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht army, household items, among which the most attention-grabbing ones are: a peasant stove, near which soldiers warmed themselves in the cold winter days and nights of 1943-1944; utensils (cauldrons, spoons, mugs, bottles from drinks and cologne) and other things. For the first time, the protective breastplate CH-42, which was equipped with the fighters of the assault engineering and sapper brigade of the Soviet troops, is on display. The exhibition presents the infamous barbed wire (a whole coil), which was quite widely used by soldiers of the German army to barricade their positions at the front and in concentration camps.
From the funds of the Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum, Soviet men’s and women’s military uniforms and equipment of the model of 1943 are presented. They can be compared with the uniforms and equipment of a Wehrmacht soldier (reconstruction) provided for the exhibition from a private collection.
Presented are photos highlighting the search work of the NGO “Search-Dnipro” group of enthusiasts, scale models of combat episodes and military equipment made by search participants.
The exhibition was created thanks to the charitable help of entrepreneur Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Zhilkin.
Address: 16 D. Yavornytskogo Ave. (diorama “Battle for the Dnipro”)
Tel. for information: (0562) 46-34-26
Museum opening hours: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (closed: Monday)
Ticket price: UAH 4. for schoolchildren, students; UAH 8 adult.
