During the Great Patriotic War, music helped Soviet soldiers to hope for victory and survive at the front. It allowed the fighters to release their emotions and reminded them of pre-war life, their relatives and friends, and the nature of their small homeland. Front line songs to the accompaniment of the accordion raised the strength of their spirit and faith in victory.
The accordion from the museum’s collection is black, with four rows of plastic buttons on the right side and five rows on the left. Its bellows are dark blue; the belts are made of brown leather. The presented musical instrument belonged to the participant of the Great Patriotic War Sergey Vasilyevich Rogozha.
Sergey Rogozha was born into a peasant family in the village of Zhukovo on October 8, 1918. He started working at a collective farm as a young child. Sergey Rogozha recalled,