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The Kaniv Museum of Folk and Decorative Art has over 5,000 exhibits from the central oblasts of Cherkasy, Kiev and Poltava – clothes, rushniks (ceremonial and decorative towels), carpets, textiles, paintings, glassware.
The museum is housed in the former school No.1 in Kaniv. Oleg Koshovy (1926-1943) spent only one year as a student at the school but such were his heroics as a commissar of the Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard) during WWII, that his bust stands before the building. The Molodaya Gvardiya was an underground anti-fascist organisation, which was formed by Komsomol (The Communist Union of Youth) in the city of Krasnodon (now Lugansk), when the Nazi forces occupied the city in July 1942. The Young Guard carried out several acts of sabotage and protest before being betrayed to the Germans early in 1943. Most members of the Young Guard, about 80 people, were then tortured and executed by the Nazis, just one month before Krasnodon was liberated by the Red Army. The leaders of the Young Guard were proclaimed “Heroes of the Soviet Union”

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