Day of the Russian Diplomatic Worker celebrated in Yekaterinburg

The Sverdlovsk Regional Center of the Presidential Library based on the Belinsky Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library, on February 10, the Day of the Russian Diplomatic Worker, hosted a presentation of the exhibition "75 years of the General Assembly of the United Nations" for foreign diplomats accredited in Yekaterinburg.

The exhibition has been organized in connection with the anniversaries celebrated in 2021 - the 75th anniversary of the first UN General Assembly in London (January 1946) and the Paris Peace Conference (July 1946).

The exposition, created with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Yekaterinburg, displays materials from the personal archive of Danil Sergeev, director of the Institute of State and International Law of the Ural State Law University, who is a relative of the Soviet diplomat, Ambassador Mikhail Gribanov, a participant in the first UN General Assembly and the Paris Peace conferences as part of the Soviet delegation. Mikhail Grigorievich is depicted in the famous photograph, which captures the moment of signing the UN Charter by the head of the Soviet delegation, Andrei Gromyko.

The presentation was attended by Alexander Kharlov, representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Yekaterinburg, Sergei Radchenko, Deputy Minister of Culture of Sverdlovsk Region, Olga Oparina, Director of the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after VG Belinsky, representatives of the Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk Region and foreign diplomats accredited in Yekaterinburg.

Congratulations and welcoming words were delivered during the meeting. Consul General of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Yekaterinburg Richard Dewell and Consul General of the French Republic in Yekaterinburg Pierre-Alain Coffinier in their speeches noted the high importance of diplomatic cooperation, including in the context of the implementation of the mission of the United Nations.

New books were presented to the Belinsky library from the Representative Office of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Yekaterinburg and the Ural State Law University, including the publication “We Don't Leave Our Own” about the work of returning Russians to their homeland during the pandemic, prepared by the state news agency TASS and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The guests also had a tour of the library and learned about the resources of the Belinsky Library and the Sverdlovsk Regional Center of the Presidential Library.

The Presidential Library’s portal features the current collection Sverdlovsk Region: Pages of History, which contains statistical materials, studies, essays and photographs of the 19th - early 20th centuries, spotlighting the geographical, demographic, socio-economic and socio-political aspects of the history of the region.