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The Presidential Library invites schoolchildren and students to take part in an academic competition in history, social studies and Russian language. The competition will run until 26 March and will bring together participants from Russia and other countries. Everyone will be able to choose either all three disciplines or just one.

All tasks are based on materials from the Presidential Library's electronic archive, which contains rare historical documents and cultural heritage items from across the country. Participants can practise in advance by completing previous years' tasks in the 'Archive' section of the project website.

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The Presidential Library invites you to watch the film "Poems of Victory," produced in collaboration with the Eurasian Library Assembly (ELA). It is available on the Presidential Library's Rutub channel and can be viewed from anywhere in the world. The film includes a series of videos featuring poems by poets in the national languages of the former Soviet republics, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.

In 2024, Yuri Nosov, Director General of the Presidential Library and Co-Chair of the BAE Working Group on Preparations for the 80th Anniversary of Victory Day, proposed the creation of the film "Poems of Victory" to preserve the memory of the Great Patriotic War and introduce people to history through the works of national poets.

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The fifteenth issue of the collection of scientific works from the "Electronic Library" series has been published on the Presidential Library portal. The collection is dedicated to the memory of the Great Patriotic War and was compiled based on the results of the third annual scientific and practical conference "Promotion of National Cultural Heritage in the Electronic Environment: The Contribution of Cultural Institutions to the Formation of an Accurate Memory of the Great Victory," which took place at the Presidential Library at the end of April 2025. The event focused on the role of cultural heritage in the digital age and its significance for the formation of historical memory of the Great Victory.

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On 3 November 1887, Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was born – a well-known Russian poet, translator, playwright, screenwriter and literary critic. Marshak is considered one of the most famous authors of children's books. Scatterbrain from Bassaynaya Street, Mr Twister, Silly Mouse, Master Breaker, and other vivid characters from his poems are familiar to everyone from childhood.

In the preface to the set of postcards "S. Marshak" (1977), stored in the electronic fund of the Presidential Library, the poet's son Immanuel Marshak, a world-renowned physicist and translator of Jane Austen's novels, said: "If I could describe my father in one word, I would choose 'movement'. There was nothing inert, stagnant or boring about him. He knew how to 'wind up' people's emotional mechanisms, breaking their passivity with work, humour, joyful play or loving care." As Immanuel Marshak recalled, at his 75th birthday celebration, his father said to his friends: "Boredom is the yawn of non-existence. Pushkin is the highest form of existence, life... I wish you the most important thing – existence!"

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