About the great Patriotic war written a lot, and sometimes it seems that we know everything about her. But every new document or story of the witness show that this is not so, even the most corrosive bibliophile. “It is very important to preserve the history of the great Patriotic war, not to forget what the feat made by our ancestors. To do this, we do a lot of work involved in the preservation of the heritage of war and Muscovites. A year ago, with the centres of public services “My documents” we launched the campaign “Moscow – caring for history,” in which every citizen can pass on eternal storage of glavarkhiv evidence of the war”, – told “RG” the head of the Main archival administration of Moscow Yaroslav Onopenko.
More than 7.5 thousands of documents to date, has distributed storage residents of the capital. Among them, more than three thousand of wartime letters and photographs, more than a hundred diaries, notebooks, and memoirs of participants of the great Patriotic war, more than a thousand biographical documents, certificates, characteristics, diplomas, commendations, more than three hundred publications, and collection of propaganda materials, postcards and drawings. Among other things, there are uniforms, field bags, Luggage, stationery, tableware, watches, razor accessories, as well as the order of thousands of awards, including foreign ones. Remember, all materials from residents of the city took employees of igsc “My documents”. Then relic went on eternal storage of glavarkhiv Moskvy, where they are subject to strict governmental accounting. They are not stored in cabinets on dusty shelves, but in a special room with constant temperatures and humidity levels.
And if the Muscovites could get acquainted with unique documents right in the center of public services “My documents”, where the exhibition took place, now the project “Moscow – caring history” has moved online. The first virtual exhibition in the eve of May 9 will be the exposition “he remembers Red square about the war?” which is available on the website, “I’m home”.
“it is important For us to tell citizens about how 75 years ago Muscovites had met a Great Victory. As they waited for the “voice of Victory” – Yuri Levitan will be announced on the radio long-awaited news, as spontaneously filled the streets of the capital, cheered and congratulated each other. Now the city lives in the mode of self-isolation. It was therefore decided to present the exhibition in an online format. Everyone can explore the amazing stories of war heroes, interesting facts, and materials from the family archives. This is a heroic generation should not be forgotten,” says the Director of the centers of public services of Moscow city Olga Fefelova.
the exhibition featured footage from the Victory parade on 9 may and 24 June 1945 from the collections of the archive of congratulatory letters and messages mo��of quechee, data on the number of troops, the number of instruments and participants of the parades on red square. The exhibition is divided into thematic sections. In the “Unique facts” you can find out what mysterious incident happened with the Banner of Victory, who considered the secret weapon of Stalin that the structure was erected on the red square specifically for the Parade, like dogs and pigeons helped the Soviet soldiers at the front, and more.
In the tab “History of Muscovites” it is curious to read, for example, an interview of the famous Soviet announcer Yuri Levitan in the rooms of the newspaper “Pravda”, which his friend Yury Belkin deposited in the Glavarhiva along with pictures of Levitan. There are photos military photojournalist of the newspaper “Pravda” Alexander Ustinov, passed to his daughter, and letters to the Muscovites, in which citizens share with each other the emotions of Winning.
In the section “the War in numbers”, you can examine data about the iconic parade on red square, as well as the facts about the number of war participants of military equipment involved in the struggle countries. “Historical documents and photographs” – section filled with material from the vaults of the Main archival city Department of Moscow. There are news reports on the jubilation and the events on the Day of Victory, as well as footage of those memorable days.
in addition, for the 75th anniversary of the great Victory of glavarkhiv Moskvy and igsc “My documents” run the largest virtual Museum dedicated to the great Patriotic war. It will be possible to get acquainted with all documents and objects of the war time that residents of the capital have transferred to permanent storage.
