Museum of the History of the Order of Lenin of the Leningrad Military District

The museum is located on the 3rd floor of the district house of officers - an architectural monument of the second half of the XIX century (the building of the former officer collection of the Russian Army and Navy).

The Museum of the History of the Order of Lenin of the Leningrad Military District has been operating regularly since 01.09.1964. Three employees work on the preservation and development of the museum collection. The collection of the museum includes more than two thousand twenty items, two hundred and sixty-six items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The exposition of the museum reflects the history of the St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad Military District, from 1864 to the present. Of particular interest is the exposition of the halls "Soviet-Finnish War 1939-1940", "Blockade Leningrad", "Breakthrough of the blockade", "Removal of the blockade". The museum has a unique painting “Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad”, small arms, uniforms of clothes of the Great Patriotic War. The Museum of the History of the Order of Lenin of the Leningrad Military District operates in the form of a non-profit institution of historical specialization, that is, it does not have as the main purpose of its activity the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit received among the participants. The Museum of the History of the Order of Lenin of the Leningrad Military District is an organization of municipal subordination. The main activities of the museum: cultural and research.