“Memory Book. Europe" project presentation

The Russian House in Sofia hosted a presentation of the international humanitarian project “Memory Book. Europe”, which releases publications about the burials of the Red Army soldiers and memorials dedicated to the victory over fascism located on the territory of European countries. To date, books about Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania and Estonia have been published.

The project organizer is the Veterans Diplomatic Service Foundation with the participation of the Lithuanian Institute of Military Heritage, the Russian embassies in European countries, Russian Houses, the Presidential Grants Foundation, the Russian Peace Foundation, Rosatom and Russian Railways.

“The project makes a valuable contribution to the preservation of historical truth. This work will help the younger generation expand their knowledge”, - said Olga Shirokova, Director of the Russian House in Sofia.

Everyone interested has opportunity to learn about 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 historic and 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.