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The Battle of Gangut — in the historical sources of the Presidential Library
August 7 marks the 303 years since the Battle of Gangut — one of the most significant victories of the Russian Navy, having influenced a strengthening of Russia's status as a naval power. The Presidential Library stock is regularly added with historical documents, maps, books and public video appearances that help to understand the geopolitical meaning of the occurred more than three hundred years ago events.
The events of the XXVI International Financial Congress STARTED in the Presidential Library
The first event of the day will be a plenary session chaired by the Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Elvira Nabiullina, devoted to the main theme of the Congress "Finance for Development". There will also be a dialogue between the head of the Bank of Russia and the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin. Round tables, which will address the issues of increasing a financial literacy of the population, innovations in the infrastructure of financial market and many others, will be held at the forum site.
The movie of Alexander Sorokin “Following a scent of convoy PQ-17” was screened in the Presidential Library
On the screen a participant of the expedition Joseph Coleman, who was a member of the PQ-17 caravan (ship Bolton Castle), explains: “After the German reconnaissance aircraft discovered our ships, we waited for an attack. There was “To spread out!” command from the command ship, and each captain had to decide himself in what direction to go. We laid our course to the north toward the Russian ports. After another raid of dozens of “Messers” we saw people floating in orange vests and hundreds of sacks of flour in the water - it turns out that flour does not sink.”
Living Environment of contemporary men will be studied within a multimedia competition of the Presidential Library
In 2017 the Presidential Library once again calls to join the “Foreign View” International Annual Multimedia Competition. This year the library for the first time beside photographs accepts for the competition videos. That way the chances to contribute into creation of the national electronic fund are growing. Acceptance of works for the competition, which this year will be held for the eighth time, begins on July 3 - at the period of holidays, vacations and effective travels. Information about the Presidential Library project is available on the site foreignview.prlib.ru.
The marketing project of the Presidential Library received international recognition at the IFLA competition
Following the results of the International Competition of Library Marketing Projects held by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in 2017, a project of the Presidential Library named “Look / Read / Listen” was included into the top ten best projects in the world.
Lev Sidorovsky presented his "Hungarian Rhapsody" at the Presidential Library cinema club meeting
The well-known journalist Lev Sidorovsky shared his memories of the "pearl of the Danube" at a regular meeting of the Presidential Library cinema club. Laureate of international and all-union competitions, Honored Worker of Culture of Russia presented the viewers the documentary "Hungarian Rhapsody".
The centers of access to the resources of the Presidential Library abroad are being expanded
Today, June 20, 2017, the Presidential Library opened another remote electronic reading room in Germany. It is located on the basis of the German-Russian Institute of Culture in Dresden and was the third in this country: two access centers are successfully operating in Berlin and Munich.
The results of the International Antarctic Expedition were resumed in the Presidential Library
Joint scientific researches of the Antarctic territory play an important role in the development of the Polar region. This was announced at the conference entitled “Science Without Boundary: Swiss Polar Research and Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition,” which took place in the Presidential Library. It summed up the results of the international Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), which was working around Antarctica from December 20, 2016, to March 20, 2017.
Tsushima: “A defeat, where a bitterness is mingled with a pride of our fleet’s heroism, that even the Japanese have noticed”
The Tsushima Battle, which became one of the most severe defeats of the Russian Empire at sea, began on May 27, 1905, 112 years ago.
The conference “Woman and Society. History and modernity” at the Presidential Library
On May 23, 2017, the International Public Conference "Woman and Society. History and modernity" took place at the Presidential library.