There are several unique items in the Museum collection, uniting different generations with common family history. Mainly such items refer us to the war chronicles on these lands. Just within XX-XXI on the destiny of Ukrainians fall two world wars, numerous local conflicts and eventually new full-scale Russian invasion.
Among such authentic is an artillery protractor transferred to the Museum in 2016 by the participant of combat actions on the East of Ukraine, commander of the artillery battery of the 44th Separate Artillery Brigade Andrii Kobzar. The Museum team received this device designed for calculation of angles and distances on the map during the process of documenting and commemoration of the war fueled by Russia in 2014.
The protractor served yet Andrii`s grandfather Volodymyr Kobzar in times of the Second World War. When the war came to the Ukrainian land, the man along with other mineworkers had to leave his native Donetsk region and moved to the East of the Soviet Union, to the Chelyabinsk region. Soon after it, he was directed to the military training. In 1943, he was enlisted into 57th Separate Mortar Regiment on the position of the MLRS BM-13 “Katiusha” platoon commander. He participated into combat operations for Ukraine, Romania, and Hungary. Later he fought against the Japanese army in Manchuria.
Within long years after Kobzars family kept the measuring device as a commemorative relic, until in 2014 Volodymyr`s grandson Andrii mastered profession of artilleryman and stand to protect the Motherland. At that time the just created brigade, where he served faced the lack of equipment, especially distances and angles calculation devices. Right at that moment the protractor came in handy.
Until 2015 fall, Andrii Kobzar performed service tasks in locations of Hrychysheno, Myratovo, Triokhizbenka, Krymske, Popasna, Horlivka, Lysychansk. Relatively recently he returned to the peaceful life. However, after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion he joined to the Armed Forces again.