The Great Victory Project -> About the project
65 years ago peoples worldwide celebrated the victory over fascism. To mark this significant event the Presidential library has launched the electronic collection, which includes first-hand accounts of veterans of the World War II and the Great Patriotic War and responses to the war of their great grandchildren, research works and archive materials, photographs and documentary newsreel fragments, war-time newspapers and propaganda editions, songs and music sheets of the war years.
The material has been divided into thematic sections, followed by annotations, which briefly represent their content. Similar annotations, prepared by the Presidential library’s experts and professional historians, are supposed to be attached to the most part of released documents.
By the Victory Day visitors of Electronic Reading Rooms and the library’s website will have a chance to familiarize themselves with the part of the collection’s documents, others will be unveiled and available already within 2010.
The following organizations made contributions to the development of the collection: the Foreign Policy Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; the Library of Congress; the M. Gorky Volgograd Regional Universal Scientific Library; Children’s studio multimedia M-ART of the St. Petersburg City Palace of the Youth Creativity; the Joint SuperComputer Center of Russian Academy of Sciences; the Books of Besieged City Museum of St. Petersburg; the St. Petersburg State University M. Gorky Scientific Library; the Novosibirsk State Regional Scientific Library; the A. S. Pushkin Omsk State Regional Scientific Library; the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive; the Russian State Historical Archives; the Ryazan K. G. Paustovsky Regional Youth Library; the Tula Regional Universal Scientific Library; the D. I. Mendeleev Tyumen Regional Scientific Library; the St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University Fundamental Library; the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, the Empress Maria Feodorovna Fundamental Library; the Central Naval Library.