General Meeting of the Eurasian Library Assembly Members considered the documentary "LIBRARY FRONT: 1941-1945"

November 25, 2020 employees and heads of the Presidential Library took part in the XXIV General Meeting of the Eurasian Library Assembly Members online.

The General Meeting focused on the current activities of BAE, personnel issues and initiatives for the coming years.

One of the topics of the event was the joint work of BAE members on the implementation of projects within the framework of the Year of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. In particular, the event participants were told about the work on the documentary film "LIBRARY FRONT: 1941-1945", prepared by the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation in conjunction with the Eurasin Library Assembly.

The idea of ​​making the film emerged during the XXII General Meeting of the Eurasian Library Assembly Members, held at the A. Osmonov National Library of the Kyrgyz Republic in Bishkek in May 2019. The premiere of the film took place on May 27, 2020, on the All-Russian Day of Libraries, and became an event in the library world.

Today the documentary film "LIBRARY FRONT: 1941-1945" is available in the public domain on the Presidential Library’s portal in the Audiovisual materials section and on the institution's YouTube channel.

The main idea of ​​the film is to reflect the contribution of the libraries and librarians of the USSR to the victory over fascism. The film shows the activities of the republican libraries (currently - national libraries of the CIS countries) of the Soviet republics in the period from 1941 to 1945 in the occupied territories, on the front line, in the rear.

The documentary is based on diaries, letters, telegrams, memoirs of eyewitnesses and participants who worked in libraries during the war; official documents regulating the activities of libraries in wartime; photographs, drawings, documentary chronicles, postcards, video materials (footage from archives and filming at the scene), articles from newspapers and magazines, monographs.

Libraries of the CIS countries and the Russian Federation were involved in the work on the film. They are the Mirza Fatali Akhundov Azerbaijan National Library, the National Library of Armenia, the National Library of Belarus, the National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the A. Osmonov National Library of the Kyrgyz Republic, the National Library of Tajikistan, the Alisher Navoi National Library of Uzbekistan, the Presidential Library, the Russian State Library, the National Library of Russia, the State Public Historical Library of Russia, the National Library of Udmurtia, the Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, the N. I. Zheleznov Central Scientific Library RSAU –Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

Reference information: Eurasian Library Assembly is a non-profit partnership of libraries of the CIS countries, the main goal of which is the formation and strengthening of a common information, library and socio-cultural space. The Presidential Library has been a member of BAE since 2009.