An exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route and the 85th anniversary of the expedition of Ivan Papanin has opened in St. Petersburg. It is located on the territory of the Patriot Military-patriotic Park in Kronstadt.
Visitors of the exhibition can see an exact and flying copy of the Soviet amphibious aircraft “Sh-2”. It was such a “flying boat” that took part in the rescue of the expedition of Ivan Papanin – the first conquerors of the North Pole.
Also presented is the NATI-3 all-terrain vehicle based on a “semi-truck”. It was from this car that Otto Schmidt performed, escorting the “papanins” to the expedition. They found it on Franz Josef land and deliberately did not restore it.
All the presented samples of equipment are witnesses and participants of the feat of conquerors of the Arctic.
“Each time it was a feat of a specific person, a specific group, a team that went for it. The importance for the country, for history, for the era is very difficult to overestimate. And there is no need to do this, because you should just be proud of it,” says the curator of the exhibition Vladimir Kazakov.
The exposition was created by specialists of the “Arctic Center” of the Russian Military Historical Society. They managed to collect artifacts that are not in any museum in the world.
In total, more than 20 samples of unique equipment are presented. The exposition of the exhibition is promised to be replenished regularly.
Source: tvzvezda.ru
