The Presidential Library's cinema club meeting to be devoted to the honorary citizens of St. Petersburg – siege survivors and heroes of the Great Patriotic War

November 30, 2021, at 16:00 the Presidential Library will host a cinema club meeting, which will present films of the cinema project "Breathing one breath...", in honor of the honorary citizens of St. Petersburg - heroes of the Great Patriotic War and the siege survivors. The event is organized jointly with the Petersburg Heritage and Perspective Foundation.

The film project "Breathing one breath..." includes five short documentaries. Its name was a line from Olga Bergholz’s poem "The February Diary", written in 1942 in the besieged city. The third film of the project is dedicated to the outstanding poetess, whose voice filled with amazing energy during the siege sounded on the air almost every day and inspired hope in thousands of people.

The first film tells about Mikhail Bobrov, who fought as a scout on the Leningrad front, participated in the work of masking the high-rise dominants of Leningrad (St. Isaac's, Peter and Paul's, Nikolsky Cathedrals, the Admiralty, Mikhailovsky Castle).

The second film of the project is dedicated to Yuri Tyukalov. He spent all 900 days in besieged Leningrad. In 1943 he was awarded the medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" for his participation in agricultural work and patronage of the district hospital. Yuri Tyukalov is the author of the central panel of the Memorial Hall of the monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, installed in our city on Victory Square.

One of the creators of this grandiose monument to the feat of Leningraders in the tragic days of the siege, the sculptor-monumentalist, people's artist who fought in the ranks of the people's militia, Mikhail Anikushin, also became the hero of the cinema project "Breathing one breath...".

The fifth film in the documentary cycle is dedicated to the Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot Vasily Kharitonov. The flight commander of the 123rd Fighter Aviation Regiment flew 400 sorties, personally shot down 18 and 16 enemy aircraft in a group.

Artistic director of the Petersburg Heritage and Perspective Foundation Galina Efimova, members of the film crew, relatives and friends of the heroes of the films will attend the Presidential Library's cinema club.

The cinema club meeting will be broadcasted live on the Presidential Library's portal in Live broadcasts section, on the institution's YouTube channel, as well as on the page of the Presidential Library's cinema club on the VKontakte social network.

It is worth noting that the presentation of the film project “Breathing one breath”, dedicated to the honorary citizens of St. Petersburg - the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and the defenders of the besieged Leningrad as well as the premiere of the general film about the cinema project directed by Dmitry Chernetsov took place at the Presidential Library in November 2020.

The event will take place at the Presidential Library at Senate Square, 3. Please confirm your personal presence before 12:00 November 29 by phone: 305-16-35; +7 921 594-16-13 or by e-mail: smolina@prlib.ru Elena Viktorovna Smolina.

Accreditation of media representatives is until 13:00 November 29, 2021.

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached form marked “Media Accreditation” to the following e-mail addresses: media@prlib.ru, pechnikova@prlib.ru Tatyana Pechnikova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 534; mob. 7 921 998-06-78..

The letter should contain the full name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact phone numbers, the name of the media.

We draw the attention of the media representatives that it is necessary to forward applications for accreditation and arrive at the event in advance.

Entrance to the Presidential Library is carried out only by prior registration and upon showing a passport: for media representatives - through entrance № 2, participants and guests of the event - through entrance № 1.

In order to reduce the risks of the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), the use of personal protective equipment during the event is mandatory for all attendees.