Internet and Russian regions: Internet resource “Cultural memory of modern Russia – Euro-Arctic North” presented in Murmansk

November 12, 2014 in the Murmansk Regional Scientific Library took place a meeting of the club of ethnographers, which introduced a new online resource, "Cultural memory of modern Russia: Euro-Arctic North" - the result of the joint work of the Murmansk State Humanities University and the Center for the humanitarian problems of the Barents region. 

The website contains material collected in the course of studying the historical and cultural heritage of the modern population of the Kola Peninsula: phono materials of the oral history, folklore works, memoirs and diaries, photographs, letters, maps.

All sources are combined into several thematic collections: "Cultural memory of Kola", "Kola city cemetery on Stone Island", "Cultural memory of Teriberki", "Children and Youth of Military Murmansk, 1941-1945", "Cultural memory of the Pomorian family".

The full-text library of the website includes more than 40 books and articles on topics of collections published by the Murmansk State Humanities University and the Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A new information resource is addressed as a professional researcher of history of the Kola North - historians, cultural studies, sociology, and teachers of educational institutions, students, high school students and a wide audience of fans of the Russian North, vibrantly within its cultural and historical heritage.