The mobile polar museum to run at MASHEX exhibition

From May 29 to June 1, 2007 Museum, The Role of HISTORY in life and business to run at MASHEX / Machinery, machine tools, lathes, milling machines, electric motors exhibition organized by MVK Company.

Recall that from 15 to 19 of May, the museum worked at Euroexpofurniture exhibition. The mobile polar museum, The Role of HISTORY in life and business was developed and popularized by MVK Exhibition Company. It is timed to the 70th anniversary of two heroic expeditions: the first Soviet drifting station, the North Pole-1, with O. Schmidt and I. Papanin, as well as heroic flights of V. Chkalov and M. Gromov over the North Pole.

The historical and patriotic museum includes more than 300 exhibits. The project author Alexey Shaburov said that the museum was hosted by partners who helped make the collection including Papanin’s Museum (Yaroslavl region), the Memorial Museum n.a. Chkalov (Ulyanovsk region.), Murmansk Regional Museum, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic (St. Petersburg), Central Museum of the Russian Air Force and Museum of Defense of Sebastopol (the Ukraine), Foundation for the Support of Non-fiction Films n.a. R. Carmen, Krasnogorsk State Archives, the Association of Polar Explorers, as well as Snowstorm team for women expeditions and Schmidt’s, Papanin’s and Vodopianov’s relatives.

The museum started at the North Pole, where the heroic drift of legendary Papanin’s quartet began. At the point of “zero” the world’s first exhibition at the North Pole opened. Flags of Russia and MVK soared over the pole. Two tents – an exact copy of Papanin’s and on ein colors of the Russian flag – were set up. Then the polar museum was moved to Moscow. The two tents were the centerpiece of the Museum, The Role of HISTORY in life and business.

Pavilion 2.3 in front of pavilion 2 of Crocus Expo International Exhibition Centre
Crocus Expo International Exhibition Centre, 66 km of the Ring Road. Free shuttle buses from Planernaya metro station (the last subway car from the center, buses with the MVK logo).
The entrance to the museum is free.

Natalia Yurchenko
Press Secretary to the Director-General
Tel.: 995 05 95