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On October 24, 2025, the 5th Anniversary Forum of Working Youth of St. Petersburg will be held at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. More than 350 representatives of organizations from the city and regions of the country will take part.

The main purpose of the forum is to create a comprehensive communication environment for the development of professional and personal potential of young people through the formation of effective connections in various spheres of life.

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"One should be surprised not so much at Skobelev's bravery, which was amazing and extraordinary, but at his foresight and military acumen, which is even more important," said the famous battle artist Vasily Vereshchagin about the outstanding military commander Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev, who went down in history as the "White General." That's what he was called because on the battlefield he was always at the epicenter of events in a white uniform and on a white horse.

The Presidential Library's portal presents a selection of unique historical documents, which includes lifetime and posthumous biographical works about the life and service of M. D. Skobelev, describing the military exploits of the general, the significant Central Asian expedition, as well as archival materials.

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October 1, 2025 JSC "Publishing House "Enlightenment and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library held a round table discussion "Modern Pedagogy. How to mediatize lessons." The speakers and listeners discussed the essence and importance of media literacy in the era of digitalization and artificial intelligence, approaches to the formation of information skills and the use of media tools in organizing the educational process.

The event took place at the Reserve Center of the Presidential Library, the director of which, Stanislav Pylev, opened the program, warmly welcoming the leading teachers of the capital who gathered in the hall, as well as teachers who joined online.

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In the Year of Defender of the Fatherland, the Presidential Library has prepared a lot of materials telling about the history of our army. Meetings with the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, stories about the weapons that led our army to Victory, little-known facts about the lives of famous commanders – all this and more is reflected in films and video lectures of the TV Channel section on the Presidential Library portal.

Preserving the memory of the heroic deeds of the besiegers and defenders of Leningrad is one of the priorities of the Presidential Library. As part of the project, over four thousand documents from the personal archives of Leningrad residents were collected and digitized. All materials are publicly available on the Presidential Library's portal in the digital collections "Defense and Siege of Leningrad", as well as "Memory of the Great Victory". Recently, experts digitized the "Children's Book of War. Diaries 1941-1945". Now the book, which contains true testimonies of the war years, is available on the library's portal.

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