Memory of Soviet soldiers-liberators honored in Poland

Сommemorative ceremony dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War was held at one of the largest cemeteries of Soviet soldiers in Europe in the Polish city of Braniewo.

Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev, Consul General of Russia in Gdansk Viktor Kolesnikov and head of the Russian House in Warsaw Igor Zhukovsky laid flowers at the memorial to Soviet soldiers-liberators, where about 32 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army who died in the Second World War are buried on the territory Poland, of which 4,020 are known.

Everyone has opportunity to learn about the unique materials of the collections Memory of the Great Victory and Defence and Siege of Leningrad. These are official and personal documents, photographs and newsreels, wartime newspapers, books and publications of an agitation and propaganda nature, collections of articles and biographies, testimonies of participants in combat battles, images of military and labor awards, monuments and memorial complexes.

The Presidential Library’s portal features a virtual tour of the historical documentary exhibition “1939. The Outbreak of the Second World War”. Archival documents, newsreels, photographs tell about the events that led to a large-scale world conflict, make it possible to understand the reasons for the failure of the creation of a broad anti-Hitler coalition with the participation of the USSR, as well as the logic of the actions of the Soviet leadership in the current international situation.

In full, the materials of the national electronic repository are available in the centers of remote access to the information resources of the Presidential Library located in various countries of the world.