Yelny Local History Museum

In the history of the Great Patriotic War, our city entered as the Motherland of the Soviet Guard, so the main direction in the museum’s work is the reflection in the exposition of events related to the initial period of the war, when during the Smolensk defensive battle and, in particular, the Yelny Offensive Operation by the Order of the People’s Commissar of the USSR No. 308 of September 18, 1941, the 100th, 127th, 153rd, 161st Infantry Divisions, most distinguished in the battles of Yelnya, were renamed respectively the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 3rd Divisions.

The exposition presents weapons, equipment, uniforms of Soviet soldiers, photographs of commanders, commissars of the first guard divisions, participants in the battles near Yelnya in the autumn of 1941, combat schemes, a painting by artist A. Semenov (Grekov military studio), “The Battle near the village of Ushakovo”, a painting by F.P. Usypenko (Grekov studio) “The volley of guards mortars” – a gift to the museum from the Minister of Defense of the USSR Ustinov D.F. in honor of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Guards war and awarded the I degree of the Order.