History of Russia: Museum-Reserve “Battle on the Ice” to be open in the Pskov region to the anniversary of Alexander Nevsky in 2020

The Pskov authorities are planning to the 800th anniversary of the birth of Prince Alexander Nevsky, which will be celebrated in 2020, to open the regional Museum-Reserve “The Battle on the Ice”, said the spokesman of the regional administration.

The idea to create a Military-Historical and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve on the place of the Battle on the Ice belonged to the public. Further it was supported by regional authorities and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The Museum-Reserve is planned to open in the Gdovsk district, a place close to the territory of the Russian troops fighting under the leadership of Alexander Nevsky with German knights.

Because of the variability of hydrography of the Lake Peipus, historians have long not been able to pinpoint the place where the Battle on the Ice took place. Only due to the long research, led by the expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Science of the USSR, it was found. The place of the battle is about 400 meters from the island Sigovets. 

In 1992 to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the Battle on the Ice in the village Kobylie of the Pskov region, nor far from which the main events of the battle were held, it was erected the monument to Alexander Nevsky. In 2012 in the Gdovsk region it was open the museum of the first expedition to clarify the place of the Battle on the Ice.