An exhibition opens in Irkutsk, with over 70 items from the regional museum collections, from Siberian pioneers weapons to rare weapons from Russia, China, Japan, Turkey and Western Europe. Among the most unusual items are a cannonball found in Irkutsk Sloboda, a Japanese ritual sword, exotic pistols and the sawed off rifle Death of the Chairman, many shown to the public for the first time. Visitors can also try on a reconstructed Red Army soldier uniform.
The exhibition will feature more than 70 exhibits from the collections of the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. Among them are weapons of Siberian pioneers, soldiers’ weapons from different countries of the world: Russia, China, Japan, Turkey, and Western European countries.Visitors will see a cannonball found on the territory of the Irkutsk settlement, a Japanese ritual sword, a kulak sawed-off shotgun “Death to the Chairman,” American and Belgian pistols of exotic shapes, and much more. Most of the items have not been exhibited before. At the exhibition, it will be possible to try on a reconstructed uniform of a soldier of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army.
The exhibition can be viewed at: 130th Quarter, 3rd of July St., 21, tel. 797-792.
Also, the “Window to Asia” department hosts permanent exhibitions: “Continent Eurasia,”
“Old Irkutsk,” “Scientific Development of Siberia,” “Governor-Generals of Eastern Siberia.”
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore