Museum of Partisan Glory

In the village of Pozhnya Toropetsky district in 1977, a branch of the Tver State Association of the Historical, Architectural and Literary Museum was opened in a specially built building.

During the Great Patriotic War, in the area of the village of Pozhni, Sheino, where there are many forests and swamps, there were bases of Kalinin, Belarusian, Latvian partisans.

The exposition presents materials and documents on the atrocities of the German fascist troops in the occupied territory of the Kalinin region, the deployment of a national partisan movement, the combat activities of partisan detachments and brigades, the work of underground district committees of the CPSU (b), the combat community of partisans of the Kalinin region, Belarus and Latvia. Weapons, personal belongings of partisans, underground newspapers, leaflets, portable printing house are presented.

The museum shows the development of the guerrilla movement in the temporarily occupied territory of the Toropetsk district and the Kalinin region (now the Tver and Pskov regions), the activities of operational groups to lead the guerrilla movement (centralization of leadership).