Veterans of "Kurskenergo" visited the Museum-Reserve "Prokhorovka Field"

Last week more than 90 veterans of "Kurskenergo" visited the State Military History Museum-Reserve "Prokhorovka Field". The sightseeing tour was organized by the management and the trade union committee of IDGC of Centre – Kurskenergo division.

12 July 1943 along the southern face of the Kursk Bulge in the strip of the Voronezh Front in the area of the Prokhorovka station (now the Belgorod region) there was the largest tank battle, which largely determined the outcome of World War II. About 1,500 Soviet and German armoured vehicles took part in it. And eight out of 157 power engineers of the Kursk power grid, who went to the front in the early days of the war, became the participants of the Battle of Kursk.

During the tour the veterans visited the Museum of Kurskenergo "Third Russian Battlefield", where exhibits of the war are kept: models of equipment, weapons, documents, maps of military operations and personal belongings of soldiers, who inscribed heroic pages in the history of the famous tank battle. They then examined with interest the exhibition of armoured vehicles and weapons of the Red Army and the site of the Tankodrome, also located on the territory of the Museum-Reserve. The power engineers also visited the temple of Peter and Paul, where on marble slabs covering its walls there are carved over seven thousand names of dead combatants at Prokhorovka. The day intense with emotions and experiences ended at the monument of the Victory "Belfry", topped with a bell weighing 3.5 tons, authored by a Kursk sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov.

"The museum and monuments made a lasting impression. We are very grateful to the current generation of power engineers for the attention and the opportunity to touch our history," stressed Commissioner of the Veterans’ Council of "Kurskenergo" in Oboyansky Distribution Zone Alexander Chistyakov.

The organization of such visits is an important component of Kurskenergo’s social policy, which takes care of health, recreation and leisure of its employees. Each year about 400 employees and veterans of the enterprise visit cultural and historical sites in Russia and abroad.