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On 8 July, the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity is celebrated annually in Russia. The holiday was established by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 28 June 2022 "in order to preserve traditional family values and spiritual and moral education of children and youth".

On 5 July 1943, the Battle of Kursk - one of the largest battles of the Second World War - began. On that day, German strike groups under the plan of Operation Citadel launched an offensive on Kursk from the districts of Orel and Belgorod. The Battle of Kursk, which lasted until the end of August 1943, was decisive in ensuring a fundamental turning point in the course of the Great Patriotic War.

On 4 July 2025, the Massandra Palace of Alexander III, a branch of the State Autonomous Cultural Institution of the Republic of Crimea "Alupka Museum-Reserve", hosted the opening of the annual inter-museum cultural and educational project "Alexander III and his "brave Donets", timed to coincide with the All-Russian Day of Family, Love and Fidelity. The event was attended by the delegation of the Presidential Library of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation headed by Director General Yuri Nosov.

The Presidential Library's collection continues to be enriched with electronic copies of documents telling about the Great Patriotic War and the Victory, about front-line soldiers and home front workers who brought the Victory Day closer. Family stories, photos, diaries and letters of the participants of the Great Patriotic War can be found in the Presidential Library's large-scale electronic collection Memory of the Great Victory. Recently one of the sections of the collection - Living Memory - has published digitised photos of the full cavalier of the Order of Glory Shagen Sarkisian (1924-2002) given to the library by the relatives of the hero.