SHKOLNIK Aleksandr Iakovlevich

As the Director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 (Victory Museum), he holds events that legitimise russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories and integrate Ukrainian museums located in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine into the russian cultural space through the implementation of federal cultural and educational projects.
For example, in 2023, the Victory Museum hosted a course on "Modern Trends in the Development of the Museum as an Educational Resource" for museum staff in the temporarily occupied Donetsk to promote russian history among museum visitors.
On 23 June 2023, the museum staff took part in the opening of a school museum in the temporarily occupied Luhansk as part of the all-russian programme "School Museum of Victory".
In December 2024, Shkolnik congratulated the Donetsk Museum of Local Lore, located in the temporarily occupied Donetsk, on its 100th anniversary, noting that the museum "provides in-depth and high-quality work on research and popularisation of historical facts".