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RuThe electronic exhibition “Siberian Falcon”
The electronic exhibition “Siberian Falcon” is timed to coincide with the 110th anniversary of the pilot, the first thrice Hero of the Soviet Union, Air Marshal Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin. The exposition is based on the materials from the Novosibirsk State Regional Research Library, which also took part in preparing the exhibition. A fragment from the metric book of the Novonikolayevsk Church of the Protection for 1913 with a record of the birth of Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin, photographs of the house where he lived and the school which he attended, photographs of Pokryshkin himself from different years – from a student to an air marshal, notebook pages with information about the points of sorties and the number of downed aircraft, manuscripts and other digitized materials presented at the exhibition tell about the combat path and post-war life of the famous pilot, awards, memorial sites and educational institutions named in his honour. Valuable documents and illustrative materials were provided by the Novosibirsk State Local History Museum, the State Archive of Novosibirsk Region and the Pokryshkin Museum at the Novosibirsk Technical College.
The Presidential Library’s exhibition to tell about the remarkable pilot Alexander Pokryshkin and his famous “thunderstorm formula”
From March 6 to April 20, 2023, the electronic exhibition Siberian Falcon is open at the Presidential Library, marking the 110th anniversary of the pilot, the first thrice Hero of the Soviet Union, Air Marshal Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin.