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Unique On-line WW2 Archive Opens in Moscow

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Unique On-line WW2 Archive Opens in Moscow


06.05.2010

Unique on-line WWII archive opens in Moscow, Voice of Russia reports. The project “Victory Chronicles. 1941-1945” opened in Moscow today. Various archive materials on the history of the last war have been pooled into one on-line resource for the first time. Igor Shchegolyov, Russian Minister of Mass Communications, attended the presentation of the resource.

He said that the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic documents and the Archive of Sound Documents together with the Ministry of Mass Communication and ITAR-TASS information agency took part in preparing the project.

The project is unique due to the comprehensive character of the data represented. Besides the Russian sources, materials of the US National Archives and the Russian Defence Ministry Archive have been used. The portal offers full collections of war-time periodicals, thousands of front-line materials among which one can find a full set of the Red Army Headquarters’ daily war communiqu

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