The Great Patriotic War and Historical Memory (on the 80th Anniversary of the Victory)

On February 20—21, 2025, the Chelyabinsk Regional Universal Scientific Library hosted the All-Russian Cultural and Historical Forum “The Great Patriotic War and Historical Memory: On the 80th Anniversary of Victory” (one of the first large-scale events of the current year in Russia and the Chelyabinsk Region dedicated to the significant date). The forum was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian Library Association, the Ministry of Culture of the Chelyabinsk Region, the Russian Historical Society, the State Public Historical Library of Russia, the Chelyabinsk Regional Universal Scientific Library, the United State Archive of the Chelyabinsk Region, and the State Historical Museum of the Southern Ural. The Forum was held with the active support of higher educational institutions — South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk State University, South Ural State Humanitarian and Pedagogical University, Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture. A wide range of issues was considered (reflection of the events of the Great Patriotic War in various forms of historical memory and memorial culture, educational activities of institutes of social memory, information resources on the national military history of the 20th—21st centuries, the specifics of military subjects in fiction and art, the peculiarities of memory preservation in the formation of local identity, as well as topical issues of the organization of the system patriotic education).

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4. МКУК «ЦБС» Пластовского муниципального округа. URL: https://mcbs-plast.chel.muzkult.ru/ (дата обращения: 11.03.2025).