On 7 May 2025 in Astrakhan, the regional division of the Russian Military History Society (RMHS) held a meeting dedicated to the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. The meeting attended by historians, local history experts, research scholars, representatives of business and public organizations was staged at the small hall of the Regional Duma under the chairmanship of the Deputy Head of the Russian Military History Society, Deputy Department Head of the RF President’s Administration Nikolay Ovsienko.
The agenda of the RMHS regional division meeting featured the forthcoming opening of the stela in honor of awarding Astrakhan the status of Labor Valor City, new forms of involving the youth in the society activities, raising a patriotic spirit. A member of the RMHS Astrakhan Division Board, CPC-R Lead Representative for Regional Government Relations Galina Zoteeva presented a special issue of the corporate magazine “CPC Panorama” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.
A 72-page special issue “We will remember” contains 18 stories about the most important and little-known events of the Great Patriotic War. The writing staff of CPC Press Service employees performed a rather complicated and meticulous work handling the archive documents (combat logs of military units, directives of the People’s Commissariat of Defense and the State Defense Committee etc.), memoirs of eyewitnesses, research papers of present-day historiographers. The materials of the special issue are dedicated to the CPC employees family members who took part in the Great Patriotic War forging the Victory at the front and in the rear.
The issue aroused interest of the RMHS members. In particular, the RMHS Division Chairman, Deputy Chairman of the Astrakhan Region Duma Vitaly Gutman noted that the material was of interest to research scholars and suggested handing over some copies to the Regional Scientific Library named after Krupskaya and the library of the Astrakhan State University named after Tatischev.
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