Historical dictation “Leningrad Victory” based on the Presidential Library’s materials

November 22 at 10:30 the “Road of Life” museum at the address: Vsevolozhsk district, Rakhinskoye urban settlement, p.st. Lake Ladoga, Highway Road of Life, № 58 will host the historical dictation “Leningrad Victory”.

The text of the dictation, marking the anniversary and other memorable dates of the Great Patriotic War related to Leningrad Region, was based on the Presidential Library’s materials, acting as a partner in the project.

100 people from among activists of youth organizations and movements in Leningrad Region, Victory volunteers, and senior pupils will join the dictation. In addition, the sites for writing dictations will also be organized in all districts of the region and the Sosnovoborsky urban district, where about a thousand more schoolchildren in the region will join the campaign.

The dictation will take place on the day the Road of Life ice track begins operating as part of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege, which will be celebrated on January 27, 2024.

Information about the Presidential Library:

The Presidential Library is under the jurisdiction of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation and is the first electronic national library of Russia. The library is located in the historical center of St. Petersburg and is the largest multifunctional information, scientific, educational and cultural center.

The Presidential Library's collections, which exceed a million depository items, contain digital books and periodicals, newsreels, photographs, scientific and educational films, dissertation abstracts, archival documents and materials reflecting the history of Russian statehood, the theory and practice of law, and the Russian language. as the state language of the Russian Federation.

A unique information resource has been opened on the library's portal - a Collection of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials World War II in Archival Documents. The project organizers, in accordance with the List of instructions for the implementation of the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly on January 15, 2020, are Rosarkhiv, the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation and the Presidential Library. Since 2010, the Presidential Library has been forming an electronic collection marking the victory in the Great Patriotic War Memory of the Great Victory, which includes official documents, photographs and newsreels, wartime newspapers, books, propaganda publications, collections of articles, biographies, testimonies of participants in military battles and home front workers, their personal documents - memories, letters and diaries, images of military and labor awards, monuments and memorial complexes.

More than 1,500 remote access centers to the resources of the Presidential Library have been opened in the Russian Federation and abroad.