Russians Relive WWII Experience in Life-Size Exhibition in St. Petersburg

Hundreds of people queued in St. Petersburg over the weekend to visit the newly opened “Memory Speaks” panorama exhibition at Sevcabel Port.

The immersive exhibition recreates the path of an unnamed schoolteacher who goes to the front, taking visitors through a dozen scenes — from his wooden cabin in Belarus to trenches outside Leningrad, street battles in Stalingrad and the Dnieper River.

The state-funded exhibition is the latest commemoration of what Russia calls the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. Next year, Russia will celebrate the 75th anniversary since the end of the war.

The exhibition is expected to run through May 2020.