Bataysk Museum of History

History

Expositions of the museum

• The Hall of Military Fame presents unique items from the Civil and the Great Patriotic Wars periods. The Bataysk sanctuary, the Memorial Wall with the names of all the town citizens, who died during the Great Patriotic War, is located within the hall territory. From time to time there are held solemn events, meetings of veterans of wars and meetings of search groups in the hall
• Hall of Local Lore
• Exhibition Hall

• The Bataysk Museum takes pride of the memorial exposition, devoted to the Baranov’s and Serov’s aviation schools history. 104 graduates from the town aviation schools were honored by the Hero of USSR title, five of them were honored with this title twice. The town is proud of its noble citizens. The most famous graduates are the legendary pilot Alexey Maresyev, the prototype of the main character of Boris Polevoy's novel "Story about a True Man", poet Ivan Shamov, who repeated the feat by Nikolay Ostrovskiy.
• Personal belongings of the first pilots-cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Yevgeny Khrunov, Victor Gorbatko.
• The museum features interesting exhibition, devoted to the history of Bataysk railway junction, one of the largest in Russia. The Vladikavkaz Railway line was constructed in 1875, by the Emperor Alexander II order. Ever since, Bataysk became the gateway to the Caucasus.
• The museum has unique ethnography displays, presenting a combination of the local habits and ways in various spheres, agricultural, industrial and cultural.
• Permanent exhibition of works of the Bataysk artist N.S. Losevsky.