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"Kobona: the Road of Life", a museum


Subject / Museums

"Kobona: the Road of Life", a museum (the village of Kobona). It was established in the 1990s as a branch of the museum-reserve "The Break-through the Siege of Leningrad". After November 22, 1941 Kobona Village became a port and railway junction. The ice road "The Road of Life" was begun there. 500 thousand people were evacuated from Leningrad via Kobona. The museum exhibition includes documents, photographs, items of the military everyday life. The museum is placed in a pre-war period building of a former school. The museum of A.A. Prokofyev is placed here.

Authors
Karpenko, Irina Aleksandrovna

Persons
Prokofyev, Aleksandr Andreyevich

Geography
Leningrad Oblast, the/Kirovsk District/Kobona Village

Bibliography
Музеи Санкт-Петербурга и Ленингр. обл.: Справ./Авт.-сост.: Ю.Б.Демиденко, Т.Н.Демиденко. СПб., 2002, С. 184

Subject Index
"The Break of the Leningrad Siege", a museum-reser


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