Virtual exhibition «The Great Patriotic War on Pinsk Land»

The exhibition presents copies of archival documents from the zonal state archive in Pinsk. Documents from the archive fund 118 of the Pinsk Regional Commission for Assistance in the work of the ChGK to investigate and identify the Nazi invaders and their accomplices contain information about the mass execution of civilians. The fund contains diagrams of sketches of identified sites of atrocities by the Nazi invaders in the Logishin borough, Pogost-Zagorodsky, Pinsk district. The exhibition presents the protocol of the interrogation of a witness in the case of Nazi atrocities.

Documents of the planning commission of the executive committee of the Pinsk Regional Council of Workers’ Deputies (f. 694) help to assess the scale of damage caused during the period of the Nazi occupation.

The most valuable personal memoirs of Mikhail Alexandrovich Oganov, commander of the fire platoon of the 5th battery of the 1st Belorussian Front, tell about the actions of the landing force of the Dnieper flotilla during the liberation of Pinsk in 1944.

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