Information technology and history: Digital collections of local newspapers and posters of the Great Patriotic War are presented in Krasnoyarsk

The State Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk Krai within the framework of the opening of the book and illustration exhibition "Dedicated to the Great Victory" hosts digital collections "Newspapers of Krasnoyarsk Krai during the Great Patriotic War" and "Posters of the war years".

The electronic collection "Newspapers of the Krasnoyarsk Krai during the Great Patriotic War" currently contains 20 newspapers published in Krasnoyarsk and Krasnoyarsk Krai during the war: "Krasnoyarsk worker", "Manski farmer", "Evenki new life", "Artiomovskiy worker", "For a strong locomotive", "Yenisei Bolshevik" and others. In total more than 2,000 issues of newspapers are digitized from the library collection and the State Archives of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The work on the collection is continued, until the end of the year it will be added with the missing issues and digitized pages of the newspaper "Stakhanovite", "Socialist Labor", "Five Year Plan Drummer", "Tashtypsky farmer" and others.

The electronic collection "Posters of the war years" was created on the basis of authentic historical documents preserved in the library. This political campaign posters of such major artists as Kukryniksy, V. B. Koretsky, I. M. Toidze, A. A. Kokorekin and others, published during the Great Patriotic War. Most of the posters are published by the State Publishing House "Art". The collection also includes three posters that appeared in Krasnoyarsk in the publishing house "Krasnoyarsk Worker" in August 1941.