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Gigin: Belarusians and Russians are those who get to know the world through culture

18 April 2024
Source: Information and analytical portal of the Union State

"Belarusians and Russians are those who get to know the world through culture, and open up themselves though culture", - says Director of the National Library of Belarus Vadim Gigin at the opening of the "Union State – unity through culture" exhibition project of the leading artists of Belarus and Russia.

"The National Library is traditionally open for cooperation within the framework of our Union State, we actively liaise with the Standing Committee and beyond. Remote access to the resources of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg has just recently been opened, this is a unique collection, a unique compendium, now our users can join it," the director of the National Library of Belarus shared.

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Russian cosmonauts arrived in CIS countries to participate in Gagarin's 90th anniversary Festival

18 April 2024
Source: TASS News Agency

The international scientific and educational festival "Yuri Gagarin - the Hero of Our Time", dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Hero of the Soviet Union, will be held on April 19 at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in Moscow, as well as in an online format with the participation of Roscosmos cosmonauts who went on a visit to Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

During the event, the modern achievements of the Russian Federation in the field of cosmonautics (including manned one) development, as well as the use of virtual reality in the process of cosmonaut training were disscussed. Also, topics of promising Russian developments and techniques in the field of engineering and technological education were considered.

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Roman Sokolov, Vice-Rector of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, spoke about Alexander Nevsky's military victories in the Presidential Library

18 April 2024
Source: The official website of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia

On April 18, the Presidential Library hosted a lecture by the Vice-rector for Educational Activities and Youth Policy of Herzen University, Head of the Department of Russian History from ancient Times to the beginning of the twentieth century, Professor Roman Sokolov. Roman Alexandrovich spoke about Alexander Nevsky's military victories during the video lecture "Knowledge of Russia".

Students of the Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia and St. Petersburg schoolchildren took part in the discussion of the lecture. They actively asked questions to the lecturer. Anton Druzhevsky, methodologist of the Department of Research and Educational Programs of the Presidential Library, acted as the moderator of the event. He spoke about the collection of electronic books dedicated to Alexander Nevsky, which are stored in the library and to which access is freely to all comers.

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Cadet Erudition Tournament

17 April 2024
Source: Krasnaya zvezda newspaper

The Presidential Library held an online quiz with the participation of students in higher military educational institutions and pupils of pre-university educational organizations. This year's intellectual tournament is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege.


Director General of the Presidential Library Yuri Nosov congratulated the winner of the regional stage of the quiz and his teacher in a video conference call.

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"Life as a feat. Alexander Nevsky"

17 April 2024
Source: Bibliotechnoye Delo journal

The Presidential Library is a co-organizer of the All-Russian open quiz tournament "Life as a feat. Alexander Nevsky." The event will take place on April 20, 2024 from 10:00 to 18:00 (Moscow time) in an online format.

In order to prepare the questions of the quiz tournament, the Presidential Library provided documents and materials dedicated to Prince Alexander Nevsky. Electronic copies of printed publications and video lectures are presented on the portal of the Presidential Library in the collection "Alexander Nevsky (1221-1263)", which also includes research, essays, biographies, hagiograpies, speeches, archival and visual materials.

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Сетевое издание «Дворцы, сады и парки» - Квиз-турнир, посвящённый Александру Невскому.

About Alexander Nevsky's military victories

16 April 2024
Source: Bibliotechnoye Delo journal

On April 18, 2024, a lecture "Military Victories of Alexander Nevsky" dedicated to the great commander who did not lose a single battle will be held in the Presidential Library as part of the video lecture "Knowledge of Russia".

The Presidential Library’s portal presents the collection "Alexander Nevsky (1221-1263)", which includes studies, essays, biographies, hagiographies, archival and pictorial materials dedicated to the life and activity of the prince.

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For whom Crimean sanatoriums were urgently restored in 1944

16 April 2024
Source: Rodina magazine

The Presidential Library's collections have been replenished with an archival document telling how during the war, after liberation from the Nazi invaders, the Soviet authorities promptly repaired the infrastructure. In particular, the "secret" stamp was removed from the resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars on the restoration of Crimean sanatoriums. The document is dated August 28, 1944.

The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR ordered the People's Commissariat of Health to deploy 1,500 sanatorium and clinical beds for the treatment of civilians in Crimean sanatoriums under its jurisdiction by the end of 1944.

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What the priests reported Stalin during the Great Patriotic War

15 April 2024
Source: Rodina magazine

During the Great Patriotic War, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and believers actively supported the Red Army. They reported it personally to Joseph Stalin. This fact is stated in the unique archival documents that have entered the Presidential Library's holdings.

One of the published documents is a certificate from the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of funds collected by the clergy and believers of the city of Moscow. It follows that in March 1944, the clergy and ordinary parishioners in Moscow alone collected 1 million rubles and deposited them in the State Bank. The money was collected for the construction of airplanes.

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Works of young artists of Penza decorate calendar of the Presidential Library

15 April 2024
Source: STRC Penza

The calendar published by Presidential Library is decorated by works of young artists of Penza. It is themed and now is released specially due to the Year of the Family in Russia. 

Drawings are posted on the front side of each sheet. Among them are paintings by pupils of the V. E. Tatlin Children's Art School No. 1, Darina Menshova, Elizaveta Agureeva, Anna Bolotova and Arina Arkushenko.

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