JSC Stroytransgaz to Renovate Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Memorial Museum

JSC Stroytransgaz signed a contract for renovating Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Memorial Museum located in the village of Petrishchevo, Ruza City District, Moscow Region. The project owner is the Ministry of the Construction Complex of Moscow Region.

The project will be implemented as part of Moscow region’s state programme “Construction of Social Infrastructure”. The project calls for JSC STG to erect a new multi-hall building of the museum complex. The Hall of Memory and Glory of Heroes - the Museum’s central display - will be star-shaped. The new museum building will be located close to the house, in which Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was tortured, and to her execution place. Renovation will increase the museum complex total area by several times to exceed 1 600 m².

The museum’s permanent exposition will be upgraded, i.e wartime chronicles will be shown on large panoramic screens using interactive and multimedia technologies.

Under the contract, STG will also build utilities, including a boiler room, fire tanks, storm water treatment facilities etc. The project will be completed in 2020.

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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was a partisan and a member of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Western Front headquarters, which was inserted into the German rear in 1941. She was the first woman to be awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) during the Great Patriotic War.

Zoya’s group was set out to burn down ten villages where the Nazis were stationed. She managed to fulfilled only part of the mission order by having set fire to three houses. At her second attempt at arson, Zoya was captured. Before execution, Zoya made her legendary speech calling on the villagers to fight the Nazis and not to be afraid to die in this fight. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became one of the symbols of heroism of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya’s image can be found in fiction, journalism, cinema, painting, monumental art and museum exhibitions.