The Presidential Library: New acquisitions

The Presidential Library collection has been enriched with new video materials of its own production.

Video film The participation of the Presidential Library in the 9th forum "Electronic government - a modern mechanism for the management of the region" and the specialized exhibition INFOTECH-2016 (38 min. 52 sec.) tells about the exhibition in October 2016 in Tyumen, which presented stand with information about the activities of the Presidential Library and its Tyumen branch, opportunities, development plans, participation in federal and regional events is presented. Among the visitors of the stand there were participants and guests of the exhibition, employees of the education system of the Tyumen region, high-ranking guests.

Video film Heated by Siberia (103 min. 17 sex.) captured the February 21, 2017 meeting with Leningrad citizens in the Tyumen Regional Scientific Library - former pupils of orphanages in the Tyumen region. The meeting was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad. It was attended by Vera Iosifovna Sozonova (Tobolsk), Tamara Nikolaevna Ponomaryova (Omutinsky Village), Lyudmila Petrovna Yekimenko and Nina Alekseevna Lisovenko (Tyumen). The presenter of the meeting is Ivan Filippovich Knapik, journalist, author of the project and books "Heated by Siberia".

Video recording of a meeting with the honorable citizen of St. Petersburg, M. M. Bobrov My participation in the Great Patriotic War (71 min. 49 sec.) is presented in the framework of the enlightenment project of the Presidential Library "Video lecture "Knowledge of Russia".  

Also the first film from the four-series cycle about graffiti in the temples of Veliky Novgorod was published: Graffiti of St. Sophia Cathedral of Veliky Novgorod (26 min 49 sec.). Savva Mihailovich Mikheev, Ph.D. in History, senior researcher of the Department of Typology and Comparative Linguistics of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, tells about the significance of graffiti drawings and inscriptions of the XI-XV centuries that were preserved on the walls in the ancient temple of Veliky Novgorod, the St. Sophia Cathedral. The topography of the inscriptions shows that almost any surface of walls, pillars and stairwells of towers could serve as "writing material" for literate people from different social strata. St. Sophia Cathedral has become a kind of archive of written and oral history, allowing researchers to reconstruct the events of the medieval city and the verbal speech of the authors of Graffiti inscriptions.

The preparation of new video materials will be presented.