The exhibition includes items from different historical periods and fields of knowledge and art, but linked by one location — the city that became Russia’s first science city.
The virtual exhibition format makes it possible to present a unique selection of exhibits that would be impossible to combine in an ordinary exhibition. How else could a painting by Pyotr Konchalovsky and peasant clothing from Kaluga Governorate, an ancient belt ornament and a process tube of the world’s first nuclear power plant, the first telephone set and a tile of the Buran orbital ship’s skin be combined?
The exhibition features unique archaeological finds, recreates the lifestyle of a pre-revolutionary village, and the three old estates that united prominent representatives of the Russian intelligentsia of the 19th–20th centuries. Among the guests of the manor houses were the artists V. Serov, V. Polenov, I. Levitan; poets V. Bryusov and A. Bely; composer N. Medtner; artists P. Muratov and E. Medtner; philosophers E. Trubetskoy and L. Lopatin.
The exhibits will immerse the visitor in the fascinating and most ambitious educational experiment in the history of the country set up by Stanislav Shatsky, whose school-colony “Vigorous Life” was called a “pedagogical icebreaker”, and teachers from all over the world came to learn from his experience of education “through work, beauty and art”.
The photograph of children in the Spanish Children’s Home No. 5 will reveal unknown pages in the history of the Soviet Union, where in 1936 little children of Spanish republicans were sheltered. They were sent to the faraway Soviet Union by their parents to be rescued from the horrors of war. But no one at the time could have foreseen that war would catch up with them there too…
The exhibition tells the story of wartime relics, including the legend “The Mystery of the Five Watercolors”, the history of the radio speaker, the crystal receiver, and the portrait of the partisan Mikhail Guryanov.
Documents, scientific devices and mock-ups — these exhibits will immerse a visitor in the spirit of the pioneers of nuclear power, their aspiration for the unknown, their willingness to sacrifice themselves on the path of scientific research. The emergence of the city of Obninsk around the secret Laboratory B, the launch of the world’s first nuclear power plant, the first steps of the Russian nuclear submarine fleet and scientific discoveries in radiology medicine — all of this will be revealed in the exhibits, many of which were classified not so long ago.
The exhibition “Russia’s First Science City Through Exhibits” is more than just the history of a city of science; it is immersion in the history of a great country.
The virtual exhibition format makes it possible to present a unique selection of exhibits that would be impossible to combine in an ordinary exhibition. How else could a painting by Pyotr Konchalovsky and peasant clothing from Kaluga Governorate, an ancient belt ornament and a process tube of the world’s first nuclear power plant, the first telephone set and a tile of the Buran orbital ship’s skin be combined?
The exhibition features unique archaeological finds, recreates the lifestyle of a pre-revolutionary village, and the three old estates that united prominent representatives of the Russian intelligentsia of the 19th–20th centuries. Among the guests of the manor houses were the artists V. Serov, V. Polenov, I. Levitan; poets V. Bryusov and A. Bely; composer N. Medtner; artists P. Muratov and E. Medtner; philosophers E. Trubetskoy and L. Lopatin.
The exhibits will immerse the visitor in the fascinating and most ambitious educational experiment in the history of the country set up by Stanislav Shatsky, whose school-colony “Vigorous Life” was called a “pedagogical icebreaker”, and teachers from all over the world came to learn from his experience of education “through work, beauty and art”.
The photograph of children in the Spanish Children’s Home No. 5 will reveal unknown pages in the history of the Soviet Union, where in 1936 little children of Spanish republicans were sheltered. They were sent to the faraway Soviet Union by their parents to be rescued from the horrors of war. But no one at the time could have foreseen that war would catch up with them there too…
The exhibition tells the story of wartime relics, including the legend “The Mystery of the Five Watercolors”, the history of the radio speaker, the crystal receiver, and the portrait of the partisan Mikhail Guryanov.
Documents, scientific devices and mock-ups — these exhibits will immerse a visitor in the spirit of the pioneers of nuclear power, their aspiration for the unknown, their willingness to sacrifice themselves on the path of scientific research. The emergence of the city of Obninsk around the secret Laboratory B, the launch of the world’s first nuclear power plant, the first steps of the Russian nuclear submarine fleet and scientific discoveries in radiology medicine — all of this will be revealed in the exhibits, many of which were classified not so long ago.
The exhibition “Russia’s First Science City Through Exhibits” is more than just the history of a city of science; it is immersion in the history of a great country.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
