The virtual tour around the cruiser Aurora is available on the Presidential Library portal

Visiting the secluded spots of the legendary cruiser Aurora and admiring the exhibits that are inaccessible to most tourists - today it became possible thanks to a new virtual tour, which was created by the Presidential Library in cooperation with the Central Naval Museum.

From any corner of the world you can now not only make a walk through the warship, but also look at it from a bird’s eye view, in detail examine the location of the cruiser and the scale on the city map, admire the panoramas of St. Petersburg from an unusual perspective.

Interactive tourists may visit the upper deck, including the felling space, the engine and boiler rooms, the ship hospital, the church and other premises of the Aurora. Exhibits of the ship-museum tell about its history, service and life of seamen, participation in distant military campaigns, revolutionary events of 1917, the Great Patriotic War. A separate exposition is devoted to the history of medicine in the Navy.

It stands to mention that the employees of the branch of the Central Naval Museum on the cruiser Aurora selected the most interesting, key objects of the exposition for a more detailed presentation. Each of them is accompanied by exhaustive information about the exhibit itself, its history, context, etc.

Interactive tour around the Aurora was the first external project of the Presidential Library. By September 8, 2018, by the anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Leningrad, a virtual tour around the military-historical museum "Kobona: The Road of Life" will be presented. Now the library experts work cooperatively with the Museum Agency of Leningrad Region.

Also, by September 8, 2018, a virtual tour is being prepared around the exposition of the State Memorial Museum of Defence and the Blockade of Leningrad, which is currently inaccessible to the public. Nevertheless, thanks to the close cooperation of the Presidential Library and museum staff, the exposition, created in 2004 and dismantled in May 2018 in connection with the capital repair of the museum building, will continue running in the virtual space.

Virtual tours are a new, actively developing direction of the Presidential Library's activity, thanks to which the electronic storage fund is being enriched with real things - artifacts of exhibitions, items from museum collections, along with paper, photo, audio and video materials. Today, visitors to the portal can remotely view the constantly updated interactive exhibition "Petrograd in 1917: what, where, when. To the 100th Anniversary of the Revolution in Russia", as well as the exhibitions "The Saving Sword of Revolution: The Security Officer in Life, Cinema and Literature" and "The North-West of Russia: Two Areas - One History. To the 90th anniversary of Leningrad Region and the 80th anniversary of Vologda Region". In addition, the portal makes available a tour around the historic building of the Synod, where the Presidential Library is housed today, and visit the exhibition hall with a permanent exposition dedicated to the Constitution of the Russian Federation.