Sakhalin students were told about the history of the right to vote in Russia

On February 12, 2019, an educational lesson on the history of the right to vote in Russia was held for students of Sakhalin universities in the Sakhalin Regional Universal Research Library, on the basis of which the Regional Center of the Presidential Library is operating. The lesson was timed to the 470th anniversary of the convocation by Ivan IV the Terrible of the first Zemsky Sobor in Russia.

The staff of the regional center of the Presidential Library highlighted the historical circumstances of the creation of Zemstvo councils and their role in the establishment of autocracy in Russia, the unification of the Russian lands under the unified authority of the sovereign.

Representatives from the organizational and legal department of the Sakhalin Region Election Commission told students about the continuity of the historical tradition of voting in our country and the modern electoral process in the Russian Federation.

At the end of the lesson, the students watched an excerpt from the historical documentary film “Democracy. Zemsky Sobor” on the formation of Zemsky self-government in Russia, as well as met with electronic copies of archival documents from the Presidential Library.

On the website of the Presidential Library the region is represented by the collection “Sakhalin Region: Pages of History”. The development of the territory of Sakhalin Region, the only Russian region completely located on the islands, is represented by travel sketches, geographical and historical descriptions of the middle of the XIX - early XX century, as well as fragments of the 1929 newsreel.

Based on materials of http://www.libsakh.ru/.