Lecture “The Battle of Stalingrad. The Great Breakthrough"

The Russian Center of Science and Culture in Kiev hosted an online lecture “The Battle of Stalingrad. The Great Breakthrough", dedicated to the 78th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet army over the Nazi troops at Stalingrad - one of the glorious pages of the annals of the Great Patriotic War.

Yevgeny Gorokhovsky, Candidate of Historical Sciences, presented the history of the largest battle in world history.

The Battle of Stalingrad lasted from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943 on an area of ​​100 thousand square kilometers. On both sides, over two million people took part in it, up to two thousand tanks, more than two thousand aircraft, up to 26 thousand guns. The victory won by the Red Army at Stalingrad changed the course of the confrontation not only on the Soviet-German front, but also on other fronts of World War II.

Evgeny Gorokhovsky also spoke about the best books and feature films dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad.

The lecture “The Battle of Stalingrad. The Great Breakthrough” is available on the YouTube channel of the RCSC in Kiev.

A large number of materials about the Great Patriotic War are presented in the large-scale electronic collection of the Presidential Library Memory of the Great Victory. It includes official documents, photographs and newsreels, newspapers and magazines, leaflets, posters, books, collections of articles, biographies, testimonies of combatants and home front workers, their personal documents, images of military and labor awards, monuments and memorial complexes. The collection, which has been formed since 2010, is constantly updated with new materials.

The Presidential Library’s portal features only a part of the unique digitized which are available in full in the remote electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library, opened in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation and in 30 foreign countries.

Based on the materials of https://ukr.rs.gov.ru/ru portal.