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"Memory of the Great Victory" Electronic Archives of the Presidential Library named after Boris Yeltsin.

Within the framework of dealing with the challenges of providing information to the wider public regarding the actual facts and events of the war, furthering the promotion of historical heritage, and instilling patriotism amongst the younger generation of the Russian population, the Presidential Library named after B.N. Yeltsin has arranged for access to be provided to primary informational sources, as well as official historical and archival documentation from the war period.

For the 65th anniversary of the Victory in World War Two (the Great Patriotic War), the Presidential library named after B.N. Yeltsin has put together a specialized collection, which consists of more than 2000 digitalized (electronic) copies of various pertinent documents. This collection includes books, articles, newspapers, leaflets, posters, photographs, music from the war years, as well as maps indicating where the military operations were carried out and fragments of documentary chronicles. In making the selection for the collection, priority was given to those documents that have high historical accuracy and scientific relevance, dated in the period 1941-1945, which have never been previously available in digital format.

The collection is comprises of several sections, each of which offers links providing easy access to materials (To view any of these documents, it is necessary to click on the link in order to move to its full description and to open it in the formats being offered. To view them, users first need to install the software Microsoft Silverlight). Visitors also have the opportunity to view the descriptions of the documents that are covered by the restrictions of Part 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which are available only in the electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library.

The section "Anti-Hitler coalition" contains materials that reveal the main stages of the cooperation between the Soviet Union, the USA and Great Britain during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War), both on the diplomatic front and on the battlefield. Particular attention is paid to the International Conferences (Tehran in 1943, Yalta in 1944, and Potsdam in 1945) and the mutually cooperative relations that existed at that time between the Soviet Union and the United States in the context of economic cooperation. This includes, for instance, the northern convoys, airstrip networks and routes extending from Alaska to Siberia, and supplies that were made possible through the territory of Iran. The gem of this collection are the photographs obtained from the Presidential Library from the U.S. Library of Congress.

The section “The Power of Russian Weaponry: military operations during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War) of 1941-1945”, which is focused on the key battles of the war, including the defense of Leningrad (in 1942-1944), the Battle of Moscow (September 1941 - January 1942), the defense and liberation of Sevastopol, the Battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of that city (now called Volgograd). Materials on the theme “the people's militia in World War Two (the Great Patriotic War) of 1941-1945” are brought together in a separate section and include documents from the RGIA that relate to the traditions of the people’s militia in 1812.

The section “Defenders of the Fatherland: the living and the fallen” includes the texts of legal acts passed by the Government of the Russian Federation, which concern the provision of social support to World War Two veterans, materials on the war casualties suffered by the Soviet Union, both on the front and in territories occupied by enemy forces, as well as materials regarding the war’s heroes and its veterans.

Newspaper publications have been highlighted in a special section entitled “The war in the pages of regional and front-line press”, as well as literature for advocacy and propaganda purposes, which are covered in the section “Informational agitation in the war years”. The collection is complemented by a guide to Internet resources on this particular topic.

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