A meeting of generations “The unfading feat of Tyumen residents” held in Tyumen

The meeting of generations “The unfading feat of Tyumen residents” took place in Tyumen. The meeting, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege, was organized by the Center for Socially Significant Projects of the Tyumen Regional State Institute for the Development of Regional Education and the Tyumen Interregional Organization of the Trade Union of Public Education and Science Workers of the Russian Federation.

Veterans who survived the siege, children from orphanages evacuated to Tyumen Region during the Great Patriotic War, teachers and students of educational organizations, and labor veterans gathered at the Public Support Headquarters of Tyumen Region.

The host of the meeting was Olga Vladimirovna Roytblat, People's Teacher of the Russian Federation, head of the Center for Socially Significant Projects "TOGIRRO". At the event, they talked about the fate of siege survivors evacuated to Tyumen Region, teachers and teachers of orphanages who took in little residents of the besieged city.

Tyumen journalists showed the film “Siege Soldiers. The Last Station”, dedicated to the history of the resettlement of children who survived the siege to Tyumen Region. There were poems about the war and memories of residents of besieged Leningrad about the days spent on Tyumen soil, thanks to which it was possible to see the main role of teachers and educators during the Great Patriotic War.

The director of the department for work with regions - the director of the branch of the Presidential Library in Tyumen Region Oleg Leonidovich Shor, the deputy director of the branch for development Yaroslavna Vladimirovna Soglaeva and the chief bibliographer of the branch Natalya Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova were invited to the meeting of generations.

Natalya Alexandrovna spoke about the collections of the Presidential Library and focused on the collection Memory of the Great Victory. In the section Living Memory. Persons she presented documents from the personal archives of war participants, home front workers, children of the siege and their relatives.

Particular emphasis was placed on new documents from federal and departmental archives about the defence of Leningrad in 1942–1944, which entered the Collection World War II in Archival Documents.

The meeting participants learned about the memories of the courage, perseverance and fortitude of Leningraders in diaries, newsreels, fiction and research from the collection of the Presidential Library Defence and Siege of Leningrad.

The Tyumen branch thanks the organizers for the meeting of generations and expresses its readiness to continue to participate in events aimed at preserving historical memory.