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Gigin: Belarusians and Russians are those who get to know the world through culture

18 April 2024
Source: Information and analytical portal of the Union State

"Belarusians and Russians are those who get to know the world through culture, and open up themselves though culture", - says Director of the National Library of Belarus Vadim Gigin at the opening of the "Union State – unity through culture" exhibition project of the leading artists of Belarus and Russia.

"The National Library is traditionally open for cooperation within the framework of our Union State, we actively liaise with the Standing Committee and beyond. Remote access to the resources of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg has just recently been opened, this is a unique collection, a unique compendium, now our users can join it," the director of the National Library of Belarus shared.

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"Life as a feat. Alexander Nevsky"

17 April 2024
Source: Bibliotechnoye Delo journal

The Presidential Library is a co-organizer of the All-Russian open quiz tournament "Life as a feat. Alexander Nevsky." The event will take place on April 20, 2024 from 10:00 to 18:00 (Moscow time) in an online format.

In order to prepare the questions of the quiz tournament, Presidential Library provided documents and materials dedicated to Prince Alexander Nevsky. Electronic copies of printed publications and video lectures are presented on the portal of the Presidential Library in the collection "Alexander Nevsky (1221-1263)", which also includes research, essays, biographies, hagiograpies, speeches, archival and visual materials.

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Сетевое издание «Дворцы, сады и парки» - Квиз-турнир, посвящённый Александру Невскому.

About Alexander Nevsky's military victories

16 April 2024
Source: Bibliotechnoye Delo journal

On April 18, 2024, a lecture "Military Victories of Alexander Nevsky" dedicated to the great commander who did not lose a single battle will be held in the Presidential Library as part of the video lecture "Knowledge of Russia".

The Presidential Library’s portal presents the collection "Alexander Nevsky (1221-1263)", which includes studies, essays, biographies, hagiographies, archival and pictorial materials dedicated to the life and activity of the prince.

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For whom Crimean sanatoriums were urgently restored in 1944

16 April 2024
Source: Rodina magazine

The Presidential Library's collections have been replenished with an archival document telling how during the war, after liberation from the Nazi invaders, the Soviet authorities promptly repaired the infrastructure. In particular, the "secret" stamp was removed from the resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars on the restoration of Crimean sanatoriums. The document is dated August 28, 1944.

The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR ordered the People's Commissariat of Health to deploy 1,500 sanatorium and clinical beds for the treatment of civilians in Crimean sanatoriums under its jurisdiction by the end of 1944.

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What the priests reported Stalin during the Great Patriotic War

15 April 2024
Source: Rodina magazine

During the Great Patriotic War, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and believers actively supported the Red Army. They reported it personally to Joseph Stalin. This fact is stated in the unique archival documents that have entered the Presidential Library's holdings.

One of the published documents is a certificate from the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of funds collected by the clergy and believers of the city of Moscow. It follows that in March 1944, the clergy and ordinary parishioners in Moscow alone collected 1 million rubles and deposited them in the State Bank. The money was collected for the construction of airplanes.

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Works of young artists of Penza decorate calendar of the Presidential Library

15 April 2024
Source: STRC Penza

The calendar published by Presidential Library is decorated by works of young artists of Penza. It is themed and now is released specially due to the Year of the Family in Russia. 

Drawings are posted on the front side of each sheet. Among them are paintings by pupils of the V. E. Tatlin Children's Art School No. 1, Darina Menshova, Elizaveta Agureeva, Anna Bolotova and Arina Arkushenko.

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«World War II in archival documents»

14 April 2024
Source: Bibliotechnoye Delo journal

On April 5, 2024, the Collection "World War II in archival documents", posted on the portal of the Presidential Library, was replenished with more than 250 documents related to the key period of the Great Patriotic War from November 19, 1942 to November 7, 1944.

Among the materials received from the holdings of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents and the FSB of Russia are Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme USSR Soviet on the establishment of the main military awards of the Great Patriotic War: the Orders of Victory and Glory, Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Orders of Ushakov and Orders of Nakhimov; medals "For the Defence of Leningrad", "For the Defence of Odessa", "For the Defence of Sevastopol", "For the Defence of Stalingrad", "For the Defence of the Caucasus", "For the Defence of Moscow", "Partisan of the Patriotic War", Ushakov and Nakhimov medals.

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A meeting of the heads of the national libraries of Russia and Belarus held in Minsk

13 April 2024
Source: Bibliotechnoye Delo journal

The creation of the Working Group was initiated by Director General of the Russian State Library, President of the Library Assembly of Eurasia Vadim Duda during the XXVII General Meeting of the LAE members, held on September 21, 2023. It was headed by Yuri Nosov, Director General of the Presidential Library, and Vadim Gigin, Director General of the National Library of Belarus.

Yuri Nosov, Director General of the Presidential Library, presented the concept of a multimedia resource with audio and video recordings of poems about the Great Patriotic War in the national languages of the former USSR republics. It was accompanied by a visual series composed of portraits of participants of the Great Patriotic War of different nationalities and photographs of memorable places. The national libraries of the CIS member states and other cultural, scientific and educational institutions will take part in the work on the project.

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Within the walls of the former Synod

12 April 2024
Source: Tosnenskiy Vestnik newspaper, No. 14 dated April 12, 2024

A recent offsite meeting of the Council of Honorary Citizens of the Tosnensky district was held in St. Petersburg. The residents of Tosno became guests of the Presidential Library, the first and unique national electronic library of our country, located under the auspices of Adminstrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation.

The President of the Council of Honorary Citizens of Tosnensky district, Honorary citizen of Leningrad Region Ivan Khabarov gave the first word to Igor Solonko, Director of the Department for Scientific and Educational Work of the Presidential Library. Igor Viktorovich, on behalf of the Director General, addressed the Tosno delegation with words of greeting and expressed hope for further cooperation in order to replenish the electronic holding of the Presidential Library with materials from the history and current life of the Tosno district. Ivan Khabarov thanked the staff of the Presidential Library, but first of all the head of the press service Tatyana Smolina, for organizing such an interesting meeting with history.

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