World history: The exhibition “The First World War. The Crimean trace” in Simferopol

The exhibition hall of the Central Museum of Tauris (Simferopol, the Republic of Crimea) on September 29, 2014 hosts the exhibition "The First World War. The Crimean trace". First it presents hundreds of previously unclaimed unique exhibits from museums, archives and family collections. Military uniforms, weapons, posters, leaflets, newspapers, magazines, findings from the depths of the Black Sea, unique pictures resurrect the era of the First World in the territory of the Tauride province. The exhibition is organized by the Crimean branch of the Russian Military-Historical Society, the Crimean branch of the Russian Historical Society, the Central Museum of Tauris, with the participation of the Bakhchisarai Historical and Cultural Reserve, the Black Sea Undersea Research Center, the Museum of the 1st gymnasium and private collectors.

Thousands of Crimean residents took part in the fighting on the battlefields of the First World War, the regiment of the VII Army Corps. With the entry of the Ottoman Empire in the war in November 1914, Crimea became a front-line territory, and the main base of the Black Sea Fleet Sevastopol – the site of planning and deployment operations on the Black Sea Theater. The peninsula was also the "All-Russian Hospital" where thousands of wounded soldiers and officers were treated.

All these events were reflected in numerous documents, publications, photographs and artifacts to tell what befell on Crimea and its residents in one of the crucial periods of the world history.