Photo exhibition to commemorate the beginning of the bombing of the city in 1941 held in Belgrade

An exhibition "Open City - April 6, 1941" in memory of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the bombing of the city and the attack of Nazi Germany on Yugoslavia was opened on the Republic Square in the center of Belgrade. Photographs of destroyed Belgrade in the early 40s, most of which were kept in archives and never published, enter thematic works of contemporary artists - graduates of the Yuri Lobachev Belgrade School of Comics, Illustration and Concept Art.

The exhibition has been organized by the Russian House in Belgrade, the Mayor's Office of the Serbian capital, the Commonwealth of Comic Artists of Serbia; the support was provided by the Immortal Regiment of Serbia Foundation.

The grand opening was attended by Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botan-Kharchenko, Director of the Russian House Yevgeny Baranov, Deputy Mayor of Belgrade Goran Vesic.

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, photo 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.

Only a part of the unique digitized materials is available on the Presidential Library’s portal and in the remote electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library opened in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation and in 30 foreign countries.