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Presidential Library hosted screening of the documentary "Donors of Besieged Leningrad" and round table "Donors of Hope"
On July 8th, 2024 at the Presidential Library as part of the Public Socio-Cultural Program I Believe in My People a public screening and discussion of the new documentary Donors of Besieged Leningrad and a roundtable on the topic of Donors of Hope were held.
Presidential Library marks the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness
On July 8th, Russia celebrates the Day of Family, Love, and Faithfulness. This official holiday was established in 2022 when Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree titled About the Day of the Family, Love, and Faithfulness. The document states that the holiday was created in order to promote traditional family values and the spiritual and moral upbringing of children and young people. By decree, 2024 was declared the Year of the Family in Russia.
Presidential Library marks 315th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. Little-known facts about Peter I and Charles XII presented
Peter the Great called the victory in the Battle of Poltava "The Great Victory", in which Russia for the first time showed and realized its strength that had been shackled for many centuries. On July 8, 315 years ago, the largest battle of the Northern War took place, 7 kilometers from the city of Poltava, between Russian troops led by Peter I and Swedish troops led by Charles XII.
Presidential Library celebrates 20th anniversary of Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God's return to Russia
On July 9th, the Orthodox world will be celebrating a great church holiday - the Day of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. This year, the celebrations will be especially significant, as it marks the 20th anniversary of the return of one of the most revered Orthodox icons to Russia.
During the Great Patriotic War, the Tikhvin icon was taken to Riga and then to the United States, where it remained for 60 years before returning to its rightful place in the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery in Russia.
The Presidential Library's contest “The Future of the Fatherland in the Hands of a Teacher”
The Presidential Library holds the qualifying stage of the contest of pedagogical projects “The Future of the Fatherland in the Hands of a Teacher” until August 5, 2024.
Presidential Library tells about Battle for Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War
On July 10, 1941, the Battle of Leningrad began, which lasted for more than three years. On January 27, 1944, the city was finally liberated from Nazi Siege, but fighting with enemy invaders continued until August 9th.
Alexander Drozdov visited Presidential Library
On July 5, 2024, Alexander Drozdov, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation, visited the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg.
Presidential Library invites readers to virtual trip to Lake Baikal using ancient maps of the XVIII and XIX centuries
Ancient maps of Lake Baikal and its surroundings from 1772 and 1806 have been added to the collection of the Presidential Library.
Reserve Center of Presidential Library in Moscow told about 80th anniversary of Operation Bagration
On July 2nd, 2024, a second methodological seminar titled "80 Years of Operation Bagration: The Liberation of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic" took place in Moscow at the Reserve Center of the Presidential Library of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation, under the theme of "Key Points of Historical Memory". The event was organized by the National Center of Historical Memory under the President in cooperation with the Presidential Library.
Intelligence reports and summaries of 1942-1944 from the Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service presented on Presidential Library's portal
On July 2nd, 2024, the World War II in Archival Documents collection on the Presidential Library's portal was updated with more than 100 new documents from Soviet intelligence agencies. These materials cover the period between November 1942 and November 1944, and they are stored in the Archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR).