History of our museum

The history of the creation and development of the museum "History of the development of the Arctic" named after O.Yu. Schmidt at MBOU Murmansk Academic Lyceum.

     From April 24, 1971, at school No. lyceum) of the city of Murmansk, there is a museum "History of the development of the Arctic". The beginning of its creation dates back to the time when the whole country stood on a labor watch in honor of the centenary of the birth of V.I. Lenin. It was decided in honor of this date to create a museum of the Arctic at the school. The initiators of the creation were the director of the school Anatoly Alexandrovich Alov and the head teacher of the school, Honored Teacher of the RSFSR Tamara Pavlovna Sokolova. This decision was supported by the party organization, the Komsomol committee, the council of the pioneer squad.

The students started their search. Through the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in Leningrad, the Arkhangelsk and Odessa Museums of Local Lore, they received the addresses of famous polar explorers and their relatives. Correspondence began, materials began to come to the school: books, photographs, documents from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, the Institute of the Arctic and Antarctic, from polar explorers from the North Pole stations - 16, 18, 19, from the museums of Taimyr, Nakhodka, Providence Bay. Letters came from participants in the Chelyuskin epic, meteorologists Olga Nikolaevna Komova and her husband Nikolai Nikolaevich, from hydrograph Pyotr Konstantinovich Khmyznikov, from senior mechanic Alexander Erlandovich Pogosov and others; from close and dear polar explorers: Pelageya Ivanovna Voronina, Nelli Viktorovna Sorokina, Elena Vladimirovna Laktionova, Ksenia Vsevolodovna Gakkel, Anna Grigorievna Nikolaeva; from the nephew of the captain of the Krasin icebreaker Mikhail Yakovlevich Sorokin; from Sofia Vladimirovna Kozlovskaya, researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Earth, biographer O.Yu.Shmidt.

The wife of the famous polar explorer, outstanding scientist Otto Yulievich Schmidt, Irina Vladimirovna Schmidt, Nikolaeva Anna Grigorievna, greatly assisted in the creation of the museum.

The generation that created the museum visited Irina Vladimirovna in Moscow in 1970 and 1971 during the winter holidays. The guys were visiting the famous polar pilot Vladimir Grigoryevich Chukhnovsky; another group of guys visited the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in Leningrad, took advantage of the advice on organizing museum expositions. For a year, i.e. by April 24, 1971, the guys already had enough material to open the museum.

On April 24, 1971, the Museum "History of the Exploration of the Arctic" was solemnly opened at school No. 46. Many honored guests were present at the opening: the captain of the Gizhiga diesel-electric ship Andrey  _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf581d_05-7 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_   Anatolyevich Nazaryev, polar explorers Viktor Alekseevich Tkachev, Alexander Ivanovich Shlyachkov; Anatoly Karlovich Tsintin - senior assistant to the captain of the icebreaker "Krasin", employees of the Hydrometeorological Center, director of the Observatory Vladimir Trofimovich Zhevnovaty, captains of the icebreaker "Murmansk", the diesel-electric ship "Ob", the nuclear icebreaker "Lenin" and many others.

On that solemn day, the museum received congratulatory telegrams from the captains of the icebreakers on the voyage, as well as from polar explorers from Arkhangelsk, Sevastopol, Moscow and Leningrad, Providence Bay, Nakhodka.

   The expositions featured authentic historical materials. At the same time, the museum was replenished with new valuable exhibits - pyronaft side lights and the ship's state flag of the diesel-electric ship "Ob" and the flag of the drifting station "North Pole-19". Polar explorers "SP-18" donated radiosondes. The captain of the Gizhiga presented the museum with a unique book with a dedicatory inscription and an autograph [Wagner N. Invertebrates of the White Sea. Zoological research carried out on the shores of the Solovetsky Bay in the summer months of 1876, 1877, 1879 and 1882. -  Volume I. - St. Petersburg: M.M. Stasyulevich, 1885. - 218 p. - A.G.]. During the Second International Geophysical Year, this book was located at the polar station of Cape Peschany of the Bolshevik Island, where at that time Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin was the head. Due to the non-core profile, this book-atlas was transferred from station to station until 1967, in 1967 it was taken out by Captain A.A. Nazaryev, and now, since 1971, it has been an exhibit of the Museum "History of the Exploration of the Arctic" in Lyceum No. 4.

Nine expositions were ready for the opening of the museum:

1. The first Heroes of the Soviet Union.

2. The feat of the Chelyuskinites.

3. 812 days in the ice.

4. Scientific work in the Arctic.

5. The first Soviet icebreakers and their captains.

6. Soviet scientists in the Arctic.

7. From the Pole to Greenland on an ice floe.

8. Modern icebreaker fleet.

9. Glory to the conquerors of the Arctic.

All of them were located in the school lobby, on the second and fourth floors. Today the museum has 19 expositions. 10 more were ready for the opening of the new hall of the museum.

After the opening of the museum, all the activities of the students were aimed at expanding funds, ties with public organizations, outstanding people and promoting the study of the history and development of the Arctic. The result of the museum's activities was the television quiz "Submit, the North!", in which the children have always won first place for ten years.

1979 The children remembered an unforgettable meeting with the crew of the research icebreaker "Otto Schmidt", its captain Gennady Nikolaevich Klemakhin and the son of the polar explorer Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, after which a new exposition "Kara Gates" appeared in the museum.

In 1981, Aleksey Fedorovich Treshnikov, a famous polar explorer, academician, candidate of historical sciences, and former president of the All-Union Geographical Society, came to Murmansk for the International Symposium of Polar Research. Alexei Fedorovich visited our museum, thanked the students for their work and presented a library of books with dedicatory inscriptions.

The scientist, polar explorer, writer Semyon Isaakovich Belkin came to the tenth anniversary of the museum, wrote the anthem “Pathfinders” for us and introduced the researchers to the oldest polar explorer of the 1930s, Arseniy Nikolaevich Stefanovich. Friendship with Belkin continues to this day.

In the same year, an extraordinary meeting took place with Alexander Erlandovich Pogosov from Chelyuskin, who had come from Moscow to participate in the conference and visited our school. The guys from Chelyuskin learned a lot of interesting things about Otto Yulievich Schmidt, about life on the ice floe, and also about work during the Great Patriotic War under the leadership of Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin in Murmansk.

July 6, 1983 Murmansk meets the polar expedition of the newspaper "Soviet Russia". Six brave participants are welcomed by I.D. Papanin. The head of the expedition, Sergei Solovyov, donated a team of six huskies, photographs, a pennant and other materials to the school museum.

By the 70th anniversary of Murmansk, thanks to the painstaking five-year work of the pathfinders of our museum and the decision of the City Executive Committee, a street named after I.D. Papanin.

      Then, after the successful lifting of the ship by a group of specialists led by V.T. The chewy museum of the school was given an original steering wheel and anchor from a motorboat. On October 15, Vladimir Trofimovich visited the school museum and handed over the boat chart of the Knipovich motorboat, its theoretical drawing, passport and other documents.

January 23, 1990 was marked for our guys by a meeting with members of the expedition of Vladimir Semyonovich Chukov; pilot Viktor Mikhailovich Perov, who saved the Belgian expedition in Antarctica and was awarded the Order of Leopold; with the last captain of the icebreaker "Ermak" Konstantin Konstantinovich Byzov; with the President of the Association of Travelers Artur Nikolaevich Chilingarov; honorary polar explorer and writer Zinovy Mikhailovich Kanevsky; members of the expedition "Arctic". The meeting was led by Yuri Alexandrovich Senkevich. The next day there was a meeting with Dmitry Igorevich Shparo and Alexander Vasilyevich Shumilov.

In March 1991, the museum's delegation took part in the I International Festival "Children of the Arctic" (Moscow - Vorkuta - Salekhard).

It was interesting for the guys to meet in Moscow with wonderful people whose names are the legend of the Arctic: polar pilot Mark Ivanovich Shevelev, Hero of the Soviet Union; Head of the Glavsevmorput Alexander Alexandrovich Afanasiev; Zinovy Mikhailovich Kanevsky, Evgeny Matveyevich Suzyumov - polar explorer writers; Svetlana Baranova and Igor Chesnokov.

For the anniversary of the museum, researchers have collected a huge amount of material about icebreakers and captains: G.D. Dranitsyn, B.M. Sokolov, Yu.S. Kuchiev, Z.A. Wiebach, about many other polar explorers whose life is connected with the North, the Pole, the Arctic.

1998 - 2002 are significant for the thirtieth anniversary of the museum, meetings with members of the Allied convoys of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Great Britain, the USA, with the US Naval Attaché John G. Cain, Captain III rank of the US Navy Jerry Ann Bell, with polar explorer, academician Alexander Georgievich Dralkin, honored captains Yuri Sergeevich Kuchiev, Siegfried Adolfovich Wiebach, Leonid Stepanovich Seliverstov and many, many others.

     Наши поездки в музеи Полярного, Североморска, Рослякова, в Долину Славы, Линахамари, в Печенго-Трифоновский монастырь дали импульс к fruitful work during a trip to Moscow in 2002. Unforgettable will be meetings and conversations with members of the Russian Geographical Society, members of the Association of Polar Explorers and its chairman German Dmitrievich Burkov; with the council of the museum of the Tushino school; with the nephew of Lieutenant Alexei Zhokhov, a member of a hydrographic expedition in the Arctic Ocean; with the wife of the former head of the Northern Sea Route, Alexander Alexandrovich Afanasyev. The guys visited the Museum of the Navy in St. George's Hall, at the exhibition led by the famous polar explorer Dmitry Shparo, who 20 years ago reached the highest point of the Earth - the North Pole on skis.

A visit to the Institute of Oceanology named after P.P. Shirshov; meetings with oceanographer Maola Georgievna Ushakova, daughter of one of the discoverers of Severnaya Zemlya; with the children of the famous polar radio operator Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel, with the sons of Otto Yulievich Schmidt Vladimir Ottovich and Sigurd Ottovich and the grandchildren of the famous scientist, visiting the burial sites of O.Yu. Schmidt, E.T. Krenkel, meetings with members of the Russian Geographical Society of Moscow and students of Tushinskaya Secondary School No. 412 named after pilot M. Golovlev.

Vladimir Ottovich Schmidt was twice a guest of our museum. He was constantly interested in the affairs and successes of the Museum Council.

     Currently, the museum has more than 18 thousand exhibits, a third of them are authentic museum. The museum has 38 exhibition showcases on the 1st floor of the lobby and museum hall of 100 square meters. The museum's library contains about 5300 books, many of them published in 1910, 1918, 1932. The museum has about 3,600 photographic materials, 2,700 letters from polar explorers, scientists, people associated with the Arctic, 1,500 exhibits of polar mail.

Museum activities and its primary tasks:

The museum - the center of patriotic education - conducts important and necessary educational work among students of the gymnasium, other educational institutions, and the population of the city.

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       Музей – многократный победитель и лауреат смотров-конкурсов школьных музеев. During the existence of the museum, our children were participants in city, district, regional, all-Union conferences in Murmansk, Kirov, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), Moscow, St. Petersburg, Odessa and won prizes.

Employees of the Museum "History of the Exploration of the Arctic" named after Otto Yulievich Schmidt Lyceum No. 4 are regular participants in city, regional and federal competitions:

• “We carefully keep the memory”, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Murmansk region;

• All-Russian competition of social projects "Our City";

• city project dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the city of Murmansk "With love for all times";

• All-Russian competition "For the moral feat of a teacher";

• regional competition of presentations "Let's Preserve the Historical Memory of Veterans and Defenders of Our Fatherland", dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War";

• regional and city competitions of museums of educational institutions;

• regional meetings of activists of museums of educational institutions of the Murmansk region;

• regional and city competitions of excursion routes “The land that I love” in the nomination “The streets of our city are named after them”, “We carefully keep the memory”;

• urban scientific and practical conferences: "Northern Sea Route - Prospects for Development";

• city exhibitions-conferences of schoolchildren "Young researchers - the future of the North";

• IX and X regional youth scientific and engineering exhibition "Future of the North";

• urban drawing competitions “The Arctic through the eyes of children”;

• competitions of Web sites in the nomination "School Virtual Museum".

For 12 years the activists of the school museum have been a collective member of the public organization of the Association of Arctic Explorers.

     The museum council maintains contact with scientists and local historians of our Motherland and Moscow, with public organizations.

The Museum Council maintains contact with scientists and local historians of our country, with sea captains, with crews of icebreakers, with 47 public organizations in Murmansk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Odessa, Taimyr, Nakhodka, Providence Bay, Yamal, Vologda, Kerch, the Association polar explorers of Moscow, the Russian Geographical Society of Moscow, St. Petersburg and others.