February 10, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant museum is currently running For the Good of the Fatherland, an exhibition dedicated to the plant workers who took part in the local wars in the second half of the 20th century.

According to the corporation’s press service, there are materials on over forty people and some 200 exhibits in the exhibition hall. The exhibits and artifacts were provided by the war veterans and their families themselves as well as by Special Operation Unit 12 from Ural Interior Troops, and by Nizhniy Tagil Local War Veterans Museum.

‘Many of these exhibits have left the veterans’ homes for the first time. One of the show-cases is devoted to those who took part in Afghanistan’s civil war and features pocket calendars with days on which a soldier was in combat crossed out. There are also decorations and personal photographs and belongings among the exhibits. An authentic crimson beret, an object of a special operations soldier’s pride, and a shell splinter that nearly injured Andrei Mishin (Uralvagonzavod’s Civil Defense & Emergency Assistant to Director-General) are also on display there,’ the press service says.

The enterprise’s Executive Director Vladimir Roshchupkin suggested that the exhibition be made permanent:

‘This is crucial to the upbringing of the younger generation, this is essential to the memory of those who perished in the wars and to their parents, who can come and see we remember those who protected our borders,’ he said.