KOZHANOV Dmitrii Aleksandrovich

As the director of the Polytechnic Museum, he cooperates with the occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, promotes the legitimisation of russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories and the integration of Ukrainian museums located in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine into the russian cultural space through the implementation of federal cultural and educational projects.
In particular, the Polytechnic Museum, under the leadership of Kozhanov, as part of the programme of the Ministry of Culture of the russian federation to create children's centres on the basis of museums in the so-called "new regions", has organised the creation of three children's centres in museums in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region: the Donetsk Republican Museum of Local Lore, the Donetsk Republican Museum of Art and the Makiivka Museum of Art and Local Lore.
In November 2023, Kozhanov personally participated in the opening of the first project under the programme - a children's centre in the Makiivka Museum of Local Lore, which is officially run and resourced by the Polytechnic Museum, where he stated the importance of opening children's research and educational centres not only for the so-called "DNR" but also for the whole of russia.
The Polytechnic Museum also opened a children's centre on 18 April 2024 at the Donetsk Art Museum and on 2 October 2024 at the P. Angelina Memorial Museum in the village of Starobeshevo.