Exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II opened in Sofia

September 2, 2019, the Posters of War and Victory exhibition, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, is underway in the Russian Cultural Information Center in Sofia.

Attendees to the RCSC were able to learn about the initial period of a major war time conflict of the twentieth century through the prism of one of the most popular types of fine art, which has tremendous power of emotional influence: the exposition presents copies of the most striking campaign posters of the countries participating in World War II - Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain , Australia, USA and Soviet Union. They recreate the chronology of the main events, reflect the social situation, lifestyle and needs of people from different countries in those years.

Several tablets of the exposition are dedicated to the Kukryniksy, outstanding Soviet graphic artists and painters, and their works of pre-war and wartime. In the context of this exhibition, they represent all the artists of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition who brought Victory closer with their art.

A great contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany was made by another artist, Boris Yefimov, whose exhibition of works opened in early September at the Presidential Library in St. Petersburg. The materials of the exposition gisve an opportunity to feel, to understand the significance of the caricatures of Boris Yefimov for the defenders of our country. The exhibition contains archival historical documents from the electronic collections of the library.  A special section on the institution’s Internet portal will include a 3D tour for a virtual visit to this exhibition.

The Presidential Library’s portal features an extensive collection “Memory of the Great Victory”, which includes official documents, photographs and newsreels, books, publications of an agitation and propaganda idea, collections of articles, biographies, testimonies of participants in war battles and home front workers, personal documents and others. A special section of the collection is dedicated to the war on the pages of the front and regional press.

The materials of the collection are available to visitors of the RCSC in Sofia: since 2017, a remote electronic reading room of the Presidential Library has been opened on its basis.