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Beginning of the Great Patriotic War – on the pages of digitized newspapers
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, over 20, 000 periodicals of the wartime joined electronic holdings of the Presidential Library. On the eve of the Day of Memory and Grief, June 22, the first national electronic library of the country selected a set of periodicals, which provided information about the attack of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union.
Among the selected papers there are: "Moscow Bolshevik," "Defending the Motherland," "Smena," "The Battle for the Motherland," "The Road of Battle" and others. For example, the Presidential Library website features the paper "Defending the Motherland" of 23 June 1941. The article "Death to the enemy!" read: "This is an event that will go down in world history as a symbol of international treachery, duplicity and perfidy. When peaceful flourishing cities and villages of our country were asleep, to continue in the morning their heroic struggle for human happiness, the fascist planes dropped bombs on our people. It happened at the end of the night, the hour, which the killers had always chosen for their bloody deeds. To a long roll of Nazi crimes was added another one... We will remember the date of this heinous raid: 22 June 1941."
Catalogue "The first period of the Great Patriotic War" is widely presented on the website and in electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library. In contains documents, various periodicals, newsletters, books, memoirs and other materials related to the selected period.
The Second World War lasted five years and ended in 1945 with the signing of the act of unconditional surrender of Germany. In 2015 we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory. In commemoration of this important date, the Presidential Library presented a number of interesting projects. The first of them is the presentation of the Presidential Library's main collection "The Memory of the Great Victory," which brings together more than 22, 000 materials. Among them, there are a lot of unique documents - their digital copies are made publicly available for the first time. These are official documents, documentary films, photo chronicle, diary entries.
Another project involves the digitization of the newspaper "Leningradskaya Pravda" of the time of the Great Patriotic War. The library has received for digitization a run of 20 newspapers from 1941-1945. In addition, this year the Presidential Library will digitize more than 350 posters of the Great Patriotic War, issued in different cities of the Soviet Union.
In addition, this year the Presidential Library actively digitized materials at third-party sites. Thus, for example, it implemented a joint project with the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps. Due to close cooperation between the two organizations, the Presidential Library holdings were enriched with valuable photographs of the World War II. 100 pictures from1941-1945 have been made available to a wider audience on the website of the first National Electronic Library of Russia.
Another major project implemented by the Presidential Library in 2015 was the participation in the work of International Press Center of the Victory in Moscow, as well as the opening of the multimedia exhibition ”Victory! The 70th anniversary” at the International Vnukovo Airport. On display are photographs of living veterans of the Great Patriotic War from the Russian regions and CIS countries brought together by the Presidential Library. More than 10,000 pictures were shown on 150 plasma screens at the airport.
