On National Unity Day, November 4, 2025, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, after a solemn ceremony of laying flowers at the monument to Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky on Red Square, visited the exhibition "The Great Victory. Russia is my story" within the framework of the XXI Church and Public Exhibition-Forum "Orthodox Russia — for National Unity Day" at the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" in Moscow.
The Head of State was accompanied by Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea, Chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky, Head of the Federal Archive Andrey Artizov, Chairman of the Council of the Sirius Federal Territory, Head of the Talent and Success Foundation Elena Shmeleva. 
The President visited the halls of the historical and documentary project "The Great Victory. Russia is my story", visited the stand of the Christian Charity Foundation. The charity organization provides humanitarian assistance to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, residents of the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions and border regions.
Vladimir Putin was also shown an icon and an ark with the relics of St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), which were delivered from the Holy Trinity Convent in Simferopol, the website of the President of Russia reports.
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The exhibition "The Great Victory. Russia is My Story" covers the period from the invasion of Nazi Germany and its satellites into the USSR on June 22, 1941, to the signing of the Japanese Surrender Act on September 2, 1945, which officially ended World War II.
The exhibition features more than 700 exhibits. These are unique archival documents and museum artifacts from the Great Patriotic War period from 50 federal and departmental archives and museums in Russia and Belarus, as well as from private collections.
Among the exhibits: USSR People's Commissar of Defense Directive No. 1 on putting troops on alert; decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the establishment of the State Defense Committee; handwritten text of V.M. Molotov's radio address to the population of the USSR on June 22, 1941; message from Patriarchal Locum Tenens Metropolitan Sergius of Moscow and Kolomna with the blessing of the defenders of the Motherland; "Blockade the diary of Olga Bergholts; a sword in a scabbard, presented by King George VI of Great Britain to the citizens of Stalingrad in 1943; a draft of a personal message from I.V. Stalin to the President of the United States F. Stalin. Roosevelt criticized the Allied position on the opening of a second front in Europe; an autograph of Marshal G.K. Zhukov's speech at the Victory Day Parade on June 24, 1945; the ceremonial uniform and awards of the war period of the Supreme Commander of the Soviet Union, I.V. Stalin; the original Act of Military Surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945 and the Act of Surrender of Japan.
Visitors will be able to see the personal belongings of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War: the notebook of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya; the award list of pilot Alexei Maresyev; the greatcoat of sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko; the documents of Alexander Matrosov, pilots of the 46th Guards night Aviation regiment of Taman and members of the underground antifascist organization Molodaya Gvardiya. 
The section "Ordinary Nazism" includes documents about the crimes of the Nazi invaders, Ukrainian and Baltic nationalists, and the monstrous attitude of the occupiers towards Soviet prisoners of war and civilians imprisoned in concentration camps.
The exhibition is complemented by objects and documents related to the Soviet-Japanese war of August-September 1945.
The final sections of the exhibition are devoted to the decisions of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials of the main war criminals.
The exhibition is organized by the Patriarchal Council for Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Federal Archival Agency, the Government of Moscow, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the State Russian Museum, the My Story Foundation, and the Historical Parks Russia — My Story.