“Sacred memory to the Great Victory”

   The exhibition “Sacred memory to the Great Victory” is timed to the holiday of the Victory of the USSR over fascist Germany of May 9, 1945.

   There within the framework of the opening of the exhibition took place the ceremony of donation of the unique electronic edition “The unknown war.. The eastern front” to the Centre of Russian culture of the National library of the RK from the General consulate of the Russian Federation in the RK and the Federal agency of CIS affairs, compatriots living abroad and by the international humanitarian cooperation, which included the full version of the film by Roman Karmen “The unknown war” (20 series by 52 minutes each with the comments by Bert Lancaster), created in 1978 on the basis of the Soviet, German and English-American cinema chronicles, and also the special edition of documents pertaining to the war years.

   There at the exhibition is presented literature about the Second world war, including the Stalingrad battle (to the 70-th anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad).

   The Second world war (1939-1945) – the war between two world military-political coalitions, which became the greatest war in the history of mankind. There participated in the war 72 states existent at that time (comprising 80% of the population of the Earth). The military activities were carried out on the territory of three continents and on the waters of four oceans. The only conflict with the use of atomic weaponry.

The Stalingrad battle – a large-scale battle between the army of the USSR on the one hand and the armies of the Third reich, Rumania, Italy, Hungary on the other during the Great Patriotic war from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943.

    This battle is one of the most important events of the Second world war and together with the Kursk battle became the breaking point in the course of military activities, after which the German army forever lost the strategic initiative. The battle included the attempt of the Wermacht to seize the left bank of the Volga in the region of Stalingrad (modern Volgograd) and the city itself, the confrontation in the city and the counteroffensive of the Red Army (the operation “Uranus”) the result of which the 6-th army of the Wermacht and other forces of the allies of fascist Germany inside and near the city were encircled and partially annihilated and partially taken captive.

    The Stalingrad battle is the most bloody battle in the history of mankind, by approximate estimates the summary losses of both sides in this battle total more than two million people. The Axis powers lost a great number of people and armaments and subsequently could not totally recover from the defeat.