Today, at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, the exhibition “People's Republic of Tuva – Everything for common Victory!” opens in Moscow, and will remain open until the end of the anniversary year.

The exhibition is organized in the framework of special projects “Moya Pobeda” (My Victory) of the Tuvan government, and “Geography of Victory” of the federal patriotic museum at Poklonnaya Gora. This exposition throws light on one of the “blank pages” in the history of WWII. It tells of the contributions into the Victory by a practically unknown ally of the USSR – People's Republic of Tuva. “For us, this exhibition is a milestone, - says the head of Tuva, Sholban Kara-ool. – There is a tremendous international-patriotic potential in it. It is an opportunity to present an objective historical evaluation of Tuva’s participation in the WWII, and to emphasize the proportionate result of the friendship consolidated during the brutal war years – in 1944, Tuva entered the large family of the nations of Russia.”

Today, the member of the Tuvan volunteer squadron, which liberated towns and villages of the Ukraine, Vera Chuldumovna Bailak, left for Moscow today.

The 85-year-old front-line soldier will participate tomorrow in the opening of the exhibition “Tuvinian National Republic – Everything for our common victory!” at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic war on Poklonnaya gora.