The April issue of “Rodina” historical magazine was featured in the Presidential Library

On April 25, 2017, the Presidential Library hosted the presentation of the April issue of the historical popular science magazine entitled “Rodina” (the native land). The event was organized according to cooperation agreement between the library and the editorial staff of the newspaper “Rossiyskaya Gaeta”. Staff employees and guests of the libraries in Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Simferopol, Yekaterinburg, Samara and Perm also participated in the videoconference.

Igor Kots, the editor-in-chief of “Rodina” and the deputy editor-in-chief of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” presented the April issue of the magazine. From this issue the reader, in particular, will be able to learn how, at the height of the Cold War, Soviet fishermen rescued the pilots of the US Air Force aircraft; how was established the place of the fall of the aircraft Alexei Maresyev, the main character of “The Story of a Real Man”; what was the fate of Admiral Kolchak's wife and son, who emigrated during the Civil War; and about many other human destinies, historical facts and discoveries.

The editor of the “Rodina” magazine, Doctor of Philosophy, head of the Center for the History of Arts and Culture of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, historian and writer Semen Ekshtut mentioned that selected for publication materials, apart from describing the course of events, tell the stories of real people. He also emphasized that one of the main “Rodina’s” principles is to give an objective assessment of the history.

At the end of the event, Angelika Gurskaya, the director of the Northwest Branch of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, pointed out that such presentations in the Presidential Library are planned to happen on regular basis.

The Presidential Library and the newspaper “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” are actively cooperating. At the end of 2016, an agreement on cooperation between the institutions was signed, within which a multimedia exhibition entitled “Year of the “Rodina” magazine 2016: historical events in people's stories” was held on the premises of the building on 3 Senatskaya Square. In February 2017, the Presidential Library hosted public video lecturing, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the 1917-year’s revolution in Russia, in which the February issue of “Rodina” was presented. Some time later, the issues of the popular science publication will replenish the Presidential Library stock.