To the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory: The Historical and Documentary exhibition “Uzbekistan during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945” in Moscow

October 5, 2015 in the Exhibition Hall of the Federal State Archives (Moscow) took place the opening of the Russian-Uzbek historical and documentary exhibition "Uzbekistan during the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945", dedicated to 70th anniversary of victory over fascism.

In accordance with the agreement between the Federal Archival Agency and the Agency "Uzarchive" under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the exhibition in June 2015 was exhibited at the Art Gallery of the Arts Academy of Uzbekistan (Tashkent).

Russian visitors of the exhibition will see the documents leading Russian and Uzbek archives, which tell about Uzbekistan worthy contribution to the common victory over Nazi Germany and its satellites, the life of the country's population during the Great Patriotic War

Declassified documents from the Russian State Archive of Economics, Department of the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation in Samara show that Uzbekistan during the war has become a reliable rear base for the fighting the Red Army. In the short term it has been restored evacuated enterprises and built new ones, especially in the field of energy, such as Farkhad and Ak-Kavak river pant.

Documents of the State Archive of the Russian Federation told about the great work of the evacuation hospitals, operating on the territory of Uzbekistan during the war, to restore health and return to the system of the wounded soldiers of the Red Army.

Uzbekistan during the war hospitably received cultural institutions from other regions of the Soviet Union, which were in a temporary occupation, or near the front.

The displayed documents confirm that Uzbekistan during the war has become the new home for hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens of different nationalities who were evacuated from various regions of the USSR directly affected by the war years. Special care was surrounded by more than 200 thousand evacuated children. There were frequent cases of adoption Uzbek nationals of children left without parents. The exhibition presents stored in the State Archives in Tashkent statement of ordinary citizens of Uzbekistan for permission to adopt orphaned children.

Visitors will be able to read the documents of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History of the active participation of Uzbek citizens in the patriotic movement to raise funds for the war, as well as to assist the recoverable regions of the USSR.

Among the exhibits - photographs from the collections of the Russian State Archive of Cinema and the Central State Archive of Audiovisual Documents of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as posters and items of military and civilian life of the period from the funds of the State Historical Museum, the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 years.

The exhibition will run until October 5-9, 2015.