The instruments presented in the museum belonged to Vladimir Vladimirovich Koshelev. For more than 70 years, he worked at the oldest defense enterprise in the country — the Tula Arms Plant. Vladimir Koshelev started his career as a locksmith. He was a foreman, a master, later — chairman of the trade union committee of the production shop, deputy chairman of the trade union committee of the enterprise, and then head of the bureau of the department of labor organization and wages.

He won socialist competitions from 1973 to 1979. In 1991, he became Chairman of the Council of the Primary Veteran Organization of Retired Veterans of War, Labor, the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies of OJSC “Tula Arms Plant”.

Under his direct leadership, the plant established a Hall of Fame and a memorial complex in honor of the gunsmiths — participants of the war and home front workers. For his great work on the military-patriotic education of young people and providing effective assistance to veterans of war and labor, Vladimir Koshelev was awarded the Badge of Honor and Benefit and the Orders “the Badge of Honor” and “the Badge of Kindness”.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Koshelev was born in 1931, and when the Great Patriotic War began, he was barely ten years old. Enemy soldiers were rapidly approaching Tula. From the first days of the war, the workers of the Tula Arms Plant, where Koshelev’s father worked, switched to the triple-shift schedule, canceled their vacations and weekends. 1,500 people went to the front, and 2,500 specialists were preparing for evacuation. The emergency evacuation of the Tula Plant began in October 1941, when enemy troops began to surround Tula.

Factory workers loaded thousands of pieces of equipment into wagons around the clock. Temporary railway lines were laid to the workshops. The last echelon left on October 30, in the midst of a fierce battle on the southern outskirts of the city.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Koshelev recalled,