The main exhibition of the Karelian Front Museum has ten halls positioned geographically and dedicated to the iconic places of the Karelian Front: the office of Commander Valerian Frolov, the shore of Lake Ladoga during the 1944 landing, the Finnish fortifications in the Olonets and Medvezhegorsk area, the battles for Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia.
Exhausting work in the rear, the feat of the Kaimanov border detachment, sabotage operations of the Finnish and Soviet special services, the tragedy of Grigoriev’s partisan detachment, the desperate defense of the Kola Peninsula, the fate of the Lend-Lease Arctic convoys — these are just some of the topics of the permanent exhibition of the Karelian Front Museum.
The museum contains unique
archival documents from the funds of the Central Archive of the Ministry of
Defense of Russia and other archives, museums and departments; historical
weapons, collections and objects; original wartime artifacts, family heirlooms,
copies of battle banners, samples of uniforms and equipment of soldiers of the
Red Army, Finnish and German troops, household items, documents and photos.
