New regional monograph presented at the Kurgan Regional Center of the Presidential Library

"Kurgan Between World Wars: Anthropological Dimension" - this is the name of the new edition presented by the regional center of the Presidential Library at the Yugov Kurgan Regional Universal Scientific Library. The executive editors of the monograph are Tatiana Kozelchuk, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of History and Documentation and Denis Maslyuzhenko, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Director of the Humanitarian Institute of Kurgan State University.

The publication presents the history of the city of Kurgan in the period between the two world wars from the point of view of an anthropological approach. The authors of the monograph feature the urban space as a space of everyday life, which largely determines the social behavior of its inhabitants, and at the same time reconstructs the problems, value attitudes and adaptation strategies of such categories of citizens as children, youth and women.

According to Tatyana Kozelchuk, materials from the State Archives of Kurgan Region and the State Archive of the Socio-Political History of Kurgan Region were used as sources.

The authors note that this is not a popular, but also not a strictly scientific publication, which is of interest to historians, culture experts, ethnographers, researchers, teachers of higher and secondary educational institutions, and all interested users. To learn more about the new monograph, follow the link.

A separate collection is dedicated to Kurgan Region on the Presidential Library’s portal. It includes studies, statistical essays, archival documents, cartographic and photographic materials of the 19th - early 21st centuries, spotlighting the administrative, socio-economic, geographical position of the Kurgan and Shadrinsky districts, the territory of which forms the basis of modern Kurgan Region.