Municipal Museum of Memory of Soldiers-Internationalists "Shuravi"

Museum of memory of soldiers-internationalists "Shuravi" was opened on October 30, 1991 on the initiative of veterans of the war in Afghanistan, who in different years studied at the Ural State Pedagogical Institute (now USPU). The founders of the museum included the administration of Yekaterinburg, the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans, the Ural State Pedagogical University.

The exposition of the museum is based on personal belongings, photographs, documents and written memories of direct participants of military operations in Afghanistan. The museum also presents numerous material evidences of the past related to the participation of Soviet servicemen in wars and local conflicts of the second half of the XX century in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Angola, Somalia. In total, more than 8,000 items are stored in the museum fund.

Currently, the museum is actively working on a number of military-historical projects, including: “Little soldiers of a great country”, “Pedagogical feat”. Out of time", "Their peers made war", "Memory of the land of Sevastopol.

Today, the Shuravi Museum is the center of attraction for veterans of all wars and local conflicts of the XX-XXI centuries, having received the informal status of the main veteran museum. Having become the first such thematic memorial museum in the country, it remains true to the principle: “In memory of the fallen.” For the living. In the name of the truth.