Military-Historical Museum of D.K. Udovikov was founded in Drogichin
in November 14, 1990 decision by the District Executive Committee Drogichin
initiative Pinsky society Comments guerrilla veterans. The first visitors to the
museum received August 25, 1994. In December 1995 the museum was awarded the
honorary title "People's". 12 December 2000 he was given the name of Dmitry
Karpovich Udovikov, former Chief of Staff of the Molotov partisan brigade. Pinsk
society guerrilla veterans appeared in 1988 and had a goal to unite all the
former guerrillas who fought the Nazi occupiers of the Pinsk partisan unit
commanded by Vasily Korzh. The first was the head of a society Comments D.K.
Udovikov. Council Comments society was in Drogichin. In 1990 the executive
committee gave Society building which houses the Museum of Partisan Glory (this
is the first name of the museum) and the Council of the company comments. After
the opening of the exhibition the museum has become a base for carrying out
activities heroic and patriotic education of youth. Its first director was Elena
Bryuhanov former 2nd District Secretary Drogichin CPB, which during the war was
a partisan detachment named N. Shisha. July 17, 1998 before the building of the
museum was opened a memorial "Partisan Glory" on his granite slabs caused the
name guerrilla groups operating in the years of the Great Patriotic War on the
territory Drogichin and Ivanovo regions, and the names of their team
composition. April 21, 2004 Museum transferred to the department of culture
Drogichin executive committee and December 30, 2005 on its base creates a
branch of the city House of Culture "Center of the heroic and patriotic
education of youth to them Udovikov D.K.". In November 2006 the center is closed
for repairs and the creation of a new exhibition. The repair was completed May
1, 2009. On this day visitors could see a new exhibit. It was made hard Brest
artist-designer Arkady Denisevich. In September 2009 the RIC Centre Solutions
Drogichin renamed the Military History Museum D.K. Udovikov. The total number of
museum objects on 01.01.2013 was 2034, of which 602 general fund, auxiliary
science - 1432, arranged in five halls. This is mainly photographs, documents,
memoirs and letters guerrilla veterans. The museum belongings leaders of the
guerrilla movement samples of weapons during the Great Patriotic War. The
museum has one permanent exhibition, temporary and traveling exhibition
available.
The museum is a teen club "Azimuth" dealing with the establishment of the
fallen defenders of the Motherland and the victims of war, which the number of
unknowns. Club members found 3 of the mass graves from World War II it was
found 92 names of guerrillas and soldiers of the Red Army. The work on the
search and discovery of burial period of the 1st World War. On identified
unrecorded burials a memorable character. In 2010 the museum established club
historians "local historian" and published District Local History newspaper
"Nash Krai - Countryside." Since 2003 the museum runs last reserve Sergey
Granik. The research work carried out by the museum conducts search operation in
the archives of the Republic of Belarus, Russia and CIS countries. Awards of the
museum: the title of "People's Museum" (1995).
Of cultural events the museum holds one every month tour, lectures on "Life
and work of D.K. Udovikov "which tells of D.K. Udovikov, showing his personal
belongings and documents. In the first half of July a lecture "We remember their
names ..." Warriors of the participating Liberation Drogichin area with a
display of museum objects and documents. 2 times a year is a lecture "The Jews
in the history of Drogichinschiny" with a story about the life of Jews in the
town Drogichin, Antopil, Chomsky as well as the genocide of the Jews during the
Second World War in the territory of Drogichin district. From May to September
runs a museum-pedagogical activity "School of the Future commander" and an
interactive game "Memory" - educational games for children of primary-school and
school age.
Exposure
”The Soviet period - 1939-1941”
be reunited with the Byelorussian SSR, the beginning of the Second World War, the occupation of territories Drogichin area genocide of the Jewish people.
”Guerrilla Movement”
on the activities of guerrilla groups and Brest, Pinsk connection to the territory of Drogichinschiny, about the life of the guerrillas; Vasily Z. Korzh - the first guerrilla commander.
”1944: Liberation Drogichin District”
of the guerrilla zone defense Dnieper-Bug Canal in spring 1944, the liberation of the area in July 1944, about the release party Drogichinschiny.
”Heroes of War”
about the life and activities of DK Udovikov about guerrilla war veteran and the Great Patriotic War, the soldiers-internationalists.
”From the first settlements to 1939»
the occurrence of the first settlements in the territory of Drogichin district of stories Drogichin and education Drogichin area of natives Drogichinschiny - participants wars first half The twentieth century. (before the Great Patriotic War).
