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A large-scale forum “Great War – Great Victory” was held in Kursk, which brought together representatives of universities, public organizations and patriotic movements from 35 regions of Russia.
The RUDN team also took part in it. Over the course of three days — from September 8 to 10 — students and staff of the university attended a panel discussion "The Great Patriotic War: History Lessons, Common Memory, and Brotherhood of Nations", master classes on weaving camouflage nets, trench candles, and survival bracelets, meetings with combat veterans, and excursions around the city and the northern face of the Kursk Bulge.
RUDN team composition:
Assistant to the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs Artem Antokhin; documentary filmmaker, project manager of the Search Media Squad PSO "RUDN POISK" Maksim Lovkov; students of the philological faculty of RUDN, members of the Search Media Squad PSO "RUDN POISK" Arseniy Korobov and Evgeniy Shilov.
100 videos about heroes
The forum participants also worked in a design laboratory, where they were divided into several teams.
"The moderator of our section (it included me, Maksim Lovkov and Arseniy Korobov) suggested that the teams consider 10 facets of patriotism. We chose the "Media" facet. On average, 5-7 minutes were allocated for each stage of preparation, and there were 12 of them, then there was a pre-defense in the "World Café" format, where all the teams move in a circle and ask questions to one member of another team, who is defending the project. Our project, which we worked on together with the guys from the Kursk State Medical University, the local college of information technology and the Tula search squad "Silence", was defended by Arseniy Korobov," – Artem Antokhin, assistant to the vice-rector for work with students.
According to the RUDN student, the most difficult thing was to formulate the topic of the project, to choose the issues that are relevant and will be useful.
“As a result, we came up with the idea of creating 100 videos about the participants of the special military operation under the motto
According to Arseniy, of all the other events of the forum, he remembers the trip to Ponyri to the military memorial "Northern Face of the Kursk Bulge" the most, as he was struck by the scale and beauty of the installation. The student also liked the excursion to the local museum, where the guys were shown the captured weapons and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with which they invaded the Kursk region.
"Well, and of course, I was very impressed by the conversation with the heroes of Russia, veterans of the military actions in Chechnya and the SVO. I was impressed by their calm and the modesty with which they talked about their merits. Also, as a future journalist, I was interested to listen to the speech of war correspondent Alexey Ivliev, who has been working in the SVO zone from the first days," Arseny Korobov.
Another student of the Faculty of Philology, Evgeny Shilov, took part in the development of the second project, a documentary film.
“We chose the events on the Eastern Front of the Great Patriotic War in 1945 as the theme for the film. According to our plan, we planned to involve participants from various search teams and student organizations from the regions where the battles took place in its creation,” Evgeny Shilov.
Both projects won in their nominations, and the students received branded products from the forum as a gift.
Frontline texts
Also during the forum, there was an exhibition of projects by Russian universities dedicated to the memory of our people's Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The central place in the exhibition was occupied by the RUDN projects – "Nobody is Forgotten" and "Front Lines".
"Nobody is Forgotten" is a large-scale media project consisting of five documentaries. The films are dedicated to the search for the burial place of tank driver Anton Zelenko, who died in November 1941 near Moscow, the fates of children who survived the occupation of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War, fierce battles near the Dnieper in the Smolensk region in the first months of the war, the battles at Khalkhin Gol in 1939 and the phenomenon of faith and fortitude of people in war conditions. This is a large, painstaking work. Enthusiastic students took part in real search expeditions on the battlefields, found personal belongings of soldiers, equipment, weapons and even the remains of the dead. In parallel, work was carried out in the archives, combat reports, lists of losses, personal files of soldiers, memoirs were studied. This data helped to restore the context of events, to learn about the details of the exploits of the heroes of our films and the last minutes of their lives,” said Maxim Lovkov, head of the Search Media Squad project of the PSO “RUDN POISK”.
The second project, which was presented at the exhibition, is designed to study, preserve and popularize the front-line press, which was published during military conflicts involving the USSR in the 1930s and 1940s. We are talking about newspapers that covered the events on the Khalkhin Gol River in Mongolia in 1939, as well as publications from the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars.
"The key partners of this project were the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian State Military Archive. They gave us access to the original archive issues of front-line newspapers. Now we are deciphering and analyzing the texts of the publications, then we post the processed materials on the Yandex.Zen platform. Among the articles in the army and front-line newspapers, there are publications by Konstantin Simonov and Alexei Tolstoy, which are not included in collections of their works; they could have been lost forever. In the future, we plan to create a podcast audio performance based on essays, stories, and poems from military newspapers. The texts will be voiced by our students in a professional studio. In addition, we want to shoot a multi-part documentary-feature film, Correspondents at War," Maxim Lovkov.
About the forum
The organizers of the forum "Great War – Great Victory" were the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and Kursk State University with the support of the Russian Historical Society and the Government of the Kursk Region. The event was held in the regional Youth Palace and was timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland.
It was attended by Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Olga Petrova, State Duma deputy Ekaterina Kharchenko, and representatives of regional authorities.
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