Take part in Librarians – Soldiers of Victory project with Presidential Library

On April 24th, 2025, at 13:30 in the Presidential Library, as part of the Third Annual Scientific and Practical Conference Promoting National Cultural Heritage in the Digital Environment: The Contribution of Cultural Institutions to the Formation of a Reliable Memory of the Great Victory, a roundtable will be held. At this event, the official launch of the Librarians - Soldiers of Victory digital project will take place.

This project was initiated by the Presidential Library on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, with the aim of preserving the memory of the heroic deeds of Soviet librarians during the war.

From the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, libraries were on the front lines of the ideological struggle, and they continued to operate in difficult conditions. Many library workers left their peaceful professions - some were drafted into the Red Army, others went to the front as volunteers, and still others joined national militia units. Not all of them returned from the battlefield, but their names and their unparalleled courage will remain in our memory forever.

Libraries preserve the memory of their heroes by carefully collecting information and publishing books and stories about them in periodicals and online resources. These stories are about those who went to the front and never returned, those who survived and returned victorious, and those who came to libraries in the post-war years as veterans.

As part of a project, an electronic collection called Librarians - Soldiers of Victory is being created. This collection will collect and combine historically reliable information about librarians who served in military operations during the Great Patriotic War and worked in libraries before and after the war in the Russian Federation and other countries.

The collection is expected to include articles about participants of the Great Patriotic War, which have been prepared for the project according to a specially designed format, as well as photographs of the heroes. In addition, the collection will contain links to relevant online resources that can be found on the websites of libraries that are participating in the project.

The implementation of the project aims to preserve the memory of the heroic feat of the people of Russia and to provide reliable information about their past to future generations. The project will allow us to gather and share information about those who sacrificed their lives for a peaceful future.

The five-year project is scheduled for completion in 2030, the 85th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Libraries of various levels and affiliations, both in Russia and other countries, are invited to join the project.

To participate in the round table as a listener, you must register electronically on the Presidential Library portal.: https://www.prlib.ru/conference , and send the request by e-mail smolina@prlib.ru no later than April 18, 2025.

Participation in the conference is free. Remote video connection will be available for non-resident participants.

Events of the conference will be broadcast on the Presidential Library's portal under the Live Broadcasts section, in accordance with the schedule of live event broadcasts, as well as on the institution's Rutube channel.

Following the conference, a collection of scientific papers will be published and included in the Russian Science Citation Index.

Venue: St. Petersburg, Senate sq., 3, lit. A.

For questions about participation in the conference, please contact:

Elena Viktorovna Smolina, born 8 (812) 305-16-35, mobile +7 (921) 594-16-13, smolina@prlib.ru;

Stanislav Leonidovich Alekseev (born 8 (812) 305-16-21 (ext. 258), alexeev@prlib.ru .

Additional information about the Librarians – Soldiers of Victory project:

Selivanova Yulia Gennadievna, tel. 8 (812) 305-16-21 (ext. 224), selivanova@prlib.ru .

Accreditation of media representatives is until 12:00 April 23, 2024

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached form marked Media Accreditation at media@prlib.ru, Tatiana 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.