The exhibit presented in the museum is an exact replica of the transferable banner, which was assigned to the Prokhorovsky District Council of Workers’ Deputies before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Such transferable Red Banners were a kind of form of encouragement for the winners of social competitions for the best performance. They were established in various fields: management, science, education, and production. Competitions were held both between individual workers and between enterprises.

When the Great Patriotic War began, enemy troops were very quickly approaching Prokhorovka. In August 1941, evacuation began, and factory equipment, machinery and livestock were sent to the rear. At the end of October, the fascists occupied part of the Prokhorovsky and Belenikhinsky districts. On November 26, 1941, the invaders occupied the Prokhorovka train station and the village of Alexandrovsky.

The transferable Red Banner of the Prokhorovsky District Executive Committee was saved and preserved by a local resident, a former accountant of the Agricultural Staff, Maria Prokhorovna Kudrikova. Before the Germans entered Prokhorovka, she went to the deserted building of the district executive committee, where she saw this banner of the Executive Committee of the Prokhorovsky District Council of Deputies.

The idea to save the symbol of a peaceful working life came to her immediately. Maria Kudrikova hid the banner under her clothes and, risking her own life, walked through the village. Once at home, she buried the banner, documents and pioneer ties of her daughters and securely stored them for 15 months before the arrival of Soviet units. In one of the post-war interviews, her children said that she would say goodbye to her kids every time someone knocked on the door. They lived through a difficult and terrible year and a half of occupation under enormous stress.

After the liberation of the village, the brave woman gave the banner to the chairman of the Prokhorovsky District Executive Committee Ignat Nikolaevich Yefimenko. He handed over the preserved banner to the Kursk Regional Party Committee.

Maria Prokhorovna Kudrikova was given a certificate that testified that she had preserved the banner of the Prokhorovsky District Executive Committee during the occupation of the Prokhorovsky district in the Great Patriotic War. The original of the transferable banner is kept in the Kursk Regional Museum of Local Lore.