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Videoconference dedicated to Alexander Nevsky to unite regions of Russia
April 29, 2021 at 10:30 Moscow time the Presidential Library and the Gorky Volgograd Regional Universal Scientific Library will hold an interregional videoconference "Alexander Nevsky: a statesman in the perspective of a historical document", dedicated to the 800th anniversary of the birth of the holy noble prince.
The Presidential Library’s portal presents the opening of the first State Duma of the Russian Empire on rare newsreel shooting
April 27 and 28, 2021 the Presidential Library’s portal presents a unique opportunity to see the first and only newsreel shooting of the opening of the first convocation of the State Duma of the Russian Empire and the State Council in Live broadcasts section. This event took place 115 years ago, on April 27, 1906 in the St. George throne room of the Winter Palace.
The fate of the northern convoy BD-5 during the Great Patriotic War through the prism of one photograph
Vladimir Pushkarev’s photograph Chapel on Bely Island (Kara Sea) (2013), provided by the press service of the Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, has been published on the Presidential Library's portal in Video Tours and Exhibitions section. It is attached with the audio file Point on the map - Bely Island; it was recorded at the Presidential Library. In the audio recording Pavel Yegorov, Candidate of Geological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Geology and Geoecology of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia says that the chapel in memory of the BD-5 convoy died in the Kara Sea was built in 2012 on the initiative of one of the search expeditions.
Marking the 130th anniversary of Sergei Prokofiev: the musical film The Love for Three Oranges to be shown at the Presidential Library’s cinema club meeting
On April 23, 2021 at 14:00, on the day of the 130th anniversary of the birth of composer Sergei Prokofiev, the Presidential Library will be holding a cinema club meeting dedicated to the composer. The musical film The Love for Three Oranges will be shown at the event, which will be held jointly with the St. Petersburg Institution Record Youth Center. The film was directed in 1970 by Viktor Titov and Yuri Bogatyrenko based on the opera of the same name by Sergei Prokofiev.
"Praying for Fallen in Battle": The Presidential Library's film tells about the Temple in Staro-Panovo
April 23, 2021, at 12:00, the Presidential Library's portal in the Live broadcasts section and on the institution's YouTube channel will broadcast the premiere of the film "Praying for Fallen in Battle" created by the library's film group. It tells about the memorial church of Saint Martyrs Adrian and Natalia. It is devoted to those who were killed and missed in action defending Leningrad from the German invaders.
Foreign students to participate in the Olympiad supported by the Presidential Library
Interfaculty Olympiad will be held for foreign students of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia with the support of the Presidential Library on April 22, 2021. The event will be attended by students from different countries, including about 300 residents of the People's Republic of China who are studying Russian.
The Presidential Library to highlight the first St. Petersburg hotels
April 22, 2021, at 14:00 Moscow time, the Presidential Library will host a multimedia lesson "Petersburg Hospitality: Tradition and the Present Time". This is the second lesson in the series of "The Origins of St. Petersburg Hospitality: Events, People, Places" lessons, organized by the Presidential Library in cooperation with the St. Petersburg State University of Economics.
The Presidential Library’s video lecture dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov
April 22, 2021, at 11:00 Moscow time, the Presidential Library, as part of the Knowledge of Russia project, will host a video lecture dedicated to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the Chino del Duca International Prize, three times Hero of Socialist Labor, one of the creators of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb, physicist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989). The event is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of the scientist, which will be celebrated on May 21, 2021.
Films about juvenile prisoners of Nazi concentration camps to be screened at the Presidential Library's cinema club meeting
The films of the project of the Media Center of the St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education "Diary of Memory", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, will be shown at the Presidential Library’s regular cinema club meeting on April 21, 2021 at 16:00.
Online meeting at the Presidential Library to tell about the history of Russian parliamentarism
The Presidential Library invites everyone to learn about the materials on the "Archive Fund of the State Duma of the Russian Empire". They will be discussed at the first online meeting from the series "History of Russia: Facts and Documents", which will be available on the institution's YouTube channel on April 20, 2021 at 11:00 Moscow time.