The ‘Mednoe’ Memorial Complex consists of:
* A memorial cemetery marking the burial site of 6296 Polish soldiers and officers, who were executed by order of the Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) during April and May 1940 (names of all victims known)
* An Alley of Memory including four mass graves that contain the remains of 5100 inhabitants of the Kalinin Region, executed during the 1930s (3670 names known); as well as the graves of 296 unnamed Soviet soldiers, who died in evacuation hospitals and in medical battalions
* ‘Vzglyad’ (View), an open-air exhibition and installation comprising paintings, drawings and sculptures;
* An Information and Museum Centre, the opening of which is envisaged for 2005. The Centre will consist of two halls with 110m 2 combined floor space, intended to accommodate a permanent exhibition, changing thematic exhibitions, a cinema, a computer room, a library of historical and political reference works, and an audio- and video centre.
The Memorial Complex’s collection has been growing ever since staff started researching in regional archives, towns and settlements, conducting expeditions and preparing the travelling exhibition ‘The Fates of Repressed Inhabitants of Tver Oblast’ in 2000. The general collection contains more than 1000 items. At the moment it is being reorganised, as it is due to be integrated into the collection of the Museum of Political History of Russia.
The Memorial Complex’s staff conduct various thematic excursions: ‘Political Repression during the 1930s and 1940s in the Kalinin Oblast’, ‘Polish Citizens as Victims of the Totalitarian Government of the USSR. 1940’, and ‘Mass Murder of our Countrymen During the Stalin Repressions’.
Once every year on 2 September a Remembrance Day for the Soviet and Polish Citizens who fell victim to political repression is held on the territory of the Memorial Complex.
