Presidential Library hosts concert dedicated to Great Victory

On 7 May 2025 at 11:00 the Presidential Library will host a gala event dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The concert is traditionally organised by the Administration of the Admiralty District of St. Petersburg and the Presidential Library.

Victory Day celebrations are held annually in the historic building at 3 Senate Square.

The concert will be attended by the Wind Orchestra of the St Petersburg Musorgsky Music College, conducted by Janis Bartashevich. The orchestra, founded in 1926, has won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix of the All-Russian open festival-competition of brass bands, ensembles and soloists "Vivat, Student!" in Moscow, as well as the Grand Prix of the XI open festival-competition of musical creativity "Spring Kaleidoscope" in St. Petersburg. The team performs at the significant venues of our city.

The brass band at the Presidential Library will perform marches from different periods of our Motherland's history and famous songs dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.

The Presidential Library pays great attention to preserving the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War. A large-scale electronic collection Memory of the Great Victory has been created on the institution's portal since 2010. It includes official documents, photo and newsreels, wartime newspapers, testimonies of combatants and home front workers: video recordings of interviews, diaries and personal documents, images of military and labour awards.

The Presidential Library portal also presents the Collection of digitised archival documents, film and photo materials World War II in Archival Documents, which is being formed jointly with the Federal Archives Agency from 2020. The volume of the Collection today is more than 15 thousand materials: maps, charts, periodicals, photographs, newsreels for the period from January 1933 to April 1945.

Accreditation for media representatives - until 14:00 on 6 May 2025.

Please send applications for accreditation in the attached form marked "Media Accreditation" to the following e-mail addresses: media@prlib.ru, hudjakova@prlib.ru to Alexandra Khudyakova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 167; mob. +7 (981) 788-28-08.

For accreditation it is necessary to provide the following data: Full name, date of birth, passport (series, number), place of birth, country of residence, registration address, as well as the name of the media, list of equipment to be carried, contact telephone number.

Please note that media representatives should apply for accreditation and arrive at the event well in advance.

Entrance to the Presidential Library is possible only by pre-registration and passport for media representatives through Entrance No. 2, and for event participants through Entrance No. 1.