Information technology and history: The innovative cultural and historical project “Chelyabinsk – Tankograd – Victory” launched

7 May 2015

The centralized Library System of the city of Chelyabinsk, with the support of Department of Culture of City Administration launched an innovative cultural-historical project "Chelyabinsk - Tankograd - Victory". As part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in the memorial places of the city appeared interactive displays with QR-codes that will allow anyone to learn about the contribution of the residents of Chelyabinsk in the victory.

To make a virtual tour through the streets of Tankograd and get full information about important historical sites related to the Great Patriotic War, residents and visitors can use a smart phone or tablet. It is enough to point the camera of the mobile device to the QR-code, located on the stand, and one-touch jump to the page explaining the object. In general, interactive booths will cover about 15 monuments, buildings and structures of Tankograd.

The complete historical picture of the heroic labor of workers and exploits of Tankograd is available on the online marketplace of the project танкоградпобеда.рф. Visitors to the site can take advantage of a unique virtual card Chelyabinsk, which presents more than 200 memorial sites related to the World War II. See the history of the events through the eyes of the residents of the Chelyabinsk region will help sections "Chronicle" and "All About Tankograd", which contains documents, photographs, texts of musical works of Tankograd both. However, at the Internet website of the project is represented "Live Memory Book", which contains dozens of biographies, diaries, memoirs and letters Chelyabinsk rear workers, veterans and their families.