Documents of Presidential Library tell about siege history of Obukhov Plant

The Presidential Library's collection continues to be enriched with electronic copies of documents from the Museum of Obukhov Plant History (from 1922 to 1992 - Bolshevik Plant). The materials digitised by the Presidential Library tell about the work of the plant during the Great Patriotic War. Diary entries and photographs give an opportunity to learn how the factory workers lived and worked in besieged Leningrad.

Thus, the library portal presents an album with photos: it contains six group portrait photos of the heads of shops and departments of the plant "Bolshevik", as well as 36 photos of the buildings of the plant destroyed after bombing and shelling in the period from 1942 to 1943. The destruction depicted in the photographs testifies to the constant systematic attacks on the plant and attempts to stop its work, so important for the front.

The photographs have survived thanks to the efforts of the Komsomol activists who preserved the memory of the harsh years. In 1983, the album was given to the museum by Eduard Georgievich Khorenyan (1928-2000), head of the Central Plant Laboratory, former secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Bolshevik Plant.

Other materials related to the history of the plant during the war are also available on the Presidential Library's portal. These are the siege diaries of Dmitry Grigorievich Skipsky, Deputy Chief Power Engineer of the Bolshevik Plant, and Sergey Mikhailovich Boronin, Head of the Central Plant Laboratory. For many years the diaries were carefully kept in the holdings of the plant museum, earlier they could be seen only at temporary exhibitions. Now digital copies of these and many other unique documents about the plant's history are available on the Presidential Library's portal.