"Biblionoch 2020" held in the libraries of Volgograd Region

In the framework of the All-Russian online marathon "Bibliocnoch-2020" the Gorky Volgograd Regional Scientific Library presented its videos to a wide audience and held interactive events.

Thus, virtual guests of Biblionoch-2020 took part in the network quiz “And the world saved remembers...”, dedicated to great people and battles of the Great Patriotic War, answered questions of the quiz “Heroic Stalingrad”, learned about the virtual historical and educational project “Stalingrad in the history of Great Britain” and watched videos and others.

A separate interactive block was the presentation of virtual exhibitions dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War: “The Great Patriotic War: the Price of Victory”, “The Battle of Stalingrad in Fiction: the Most Famous Books”, “The signature stamp removed”, “The Battle of Stalingrad is a great step towards Victory” and others.

Online marathon "Biblionoch-2020" involved municipal libraries of Volgograd Region.

In the framework of the “And the Muses Were Not silent” campaign, more than 120 videos with poems and prose of the war years were prepared and published on the Internet, which were watched by more than 2.25 thousand viewers on the YouTube channel and by more than 6 thousand people on social networks.

The most popular was the video reading of the last letter from the front of Ivan Yegorovich Popov, performed by the great-granddaughter of the author of the letter, Sofia Lapteva, a first-grader from the village of Shiryai, Ilovlinsky district, Volgograd Region.

The region is represented on the Presidential Library’s portal by Volgograd Region: Pages of History collection. It includes studies, essays, memoirs, archival documents, official statistical compilations and reviews, as well as journals of district zemstvo collections devoted to the history, archeology, economics, demography and military-administrative development of territories of the period of the 13th – 20th centuries, which are now part of Volgograd Region (former Tsaritsyn and Kamyshin districts of the Saratov province).