The Presidential Library teamed up authors and readers of the popular science and history magazine Rodina

“I am glad to participate in such an unusual meeting with the authors of the Rodina magazine, which I always read with pleasure”, - the governor of Arkhangelsk Region Igor Orlov opened the presentation of the October issue of the popular science and history magazine Rodina, which is traditionally held monthly in the Presidential Library.

The chief editor of Rodina, the deputy editor-in-chief of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Igor Kots, the columnist, Ph.D. Semen Ekshtut, journalists from Arkhangelsk Region, as well as the staff and guests of the multimedia historical park “Russia is my history. Sverdlovsk Region”, libraries of Chelyabinsk, Kaliningrad, Penza, Grozny, Tambov, Naryan-Mar, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area participated via video conferencing mode.

The main theme of Rodina in October were the rescuers. They are those who demolished the rubble after the devastating earthquake in Spitak 30 years ago, the crew of the large freezer trawler Cape Senyavin and its captain Alexander Arbuzov, who at the height of the cold war saved American military pilots in the storm Sea of ​​Okhotsk, fighter pilot I-16 Sergey Gritsevets, who at the very beginning of the Soviet-Japanese conflict on the Khalkhin-Gol river landed behind enemy lines to save a downed friend, and many other famous and unknown heroes.

In addition, the reader will learn a breath-taking story of the rescue of two military flags and honor of Kexholm and Nevsky regiments during the First World War, how Moscow merchants defended compatriots from enemies, hunger and needs, and why sailors of the entire planet worship Nicholas the Wonderworker. On the pages of the publication - a meeting with the son of an American invader, saved from death by unknown residents of the Russian North in December 1918, acquaintance with Alexander Alekseev, the founding father of the cultural center in the Kuban village of Kabardinka, who became a tourist Mecca, the memories of A. Pushkin's contemporary Andrei Fadeev about the great poet and other interesting materials.

The traditional “Cuisine of Rodina” column tells why in September 1932, on the initiative of the food industry commissar Anastas Mikoyan, the weekly fish day was introduced in the Soviet Union and why it is forgotten today, and also features a “three-course” nostalgic menu.

The new issue includes the premiere of the column “Experienced with Rodina”: the magazine releases lines from the personal diaries of the Soviet people about the Komsomol born 100 years ago.

A special edition of the Research Library of Rodina is devoted to another anniversary: the centenary of the General Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was founded in 2018.

Presentations of the latest issues of the popular science and history magazine Rodina have traditionally been held monthly at the Presidential Library since April 2017 within the framework of the cooperation agreement between the Presidential Library and the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which was signed at the end of 2016. Joint events are regularly held in the building on Senate Square: multimedia exhibitions dedicated to Rodina, video lectures with the participation of the authors of a historical magazine. Digitized copies of a popular science and history magazine are available on the  Presidential Library portal.