A new issue of the Rodina magazine was featured in the Presidential Library presents

A new, June issue of the monthly historical popular science magazine named “Rodina” (native land) was featured in the Presidential Library.

According to the editorial director of the Rodina magazine and the deputy editor-in-chief of the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” newspaper Igor Aleksandrovich Kots the massive political repressions of 1937 became the main theme of the June issue.

Also, from the new issue, readers will learn about a feat of Captain Bronislav Vladislavovich Grotto-Slepikovsky and his partisan detachment, which in 1905, after the defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, for more than 30 days held the defense of Sakhalin Island, being actually cut off from the world.

There is an interview with the leader of the famous Turetsky Choir leaded by Mikhail Borisovich Turetsky on the pages of the new issue, who this year, shortly before May 9 held in the very center of Berlin on Gendarmenmarkt Square peace-making concert, dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the victory in World War II. He told about his father-front-line soldier, who survived the siege of Leningrad, took part in its breakthrough and made it up to Berlin.

As Igor Kotz mentioned, the presentations of the “Rodina” magazine have already become traditional and according to the cooperation agreement between the Presidential Library and the Rossiyskaya Gazeta paper, which was signed at the end of 2016.

As part of this agreement, the multimedia exposition named “The Year of the “Rodina” magazine 2016: historical events in personal stories” was opened in the Presidential Library in December 2016, public video lecturing, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution in Russia, was held in February 2017, the presentations of the February, and in the spring - April and May issues of the magazine took place. Digitized copies of the popular science edition will eventually be included in the electronic fund of the Presidential Library.

Staff employees and guests of the libraries of Krasnoyarsk, Ufa, Simferopol, Chelyabinsk, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg and Perm, as well as the editorial staff of Rossiyskaya Gazeta in Nizhny Novgorod, attended the presentation in the videoconferencing mode.