On the holiday of the Great Victory in the SFU project SFEDU: GO! we are talking about a location dedicated to the military valor and glory of Yuri Andreevich Zhdanov, which is located on the street. Pushkinskaya, 140.
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Yuri Andreevich Zhdanov is the rector of Rostov State University (now SFU), an outstanding organizer of science, a prominent scientist and a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.
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“The end of Yuri Andreevich’s studies at the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University coincided with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Yuri Andreevich knew German perfectly, and was sent to the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army to the position of propagandist-writer. The employees of this department were anti-fascists Matish Rakosi, Georgiy Demetrov, Joseph Braginsky and others. The propaganda department, headed by Major General Burtsev, was engaged in special propaganda against enemy troops, the conversion of German prisoners of war with further deportation behind enemy lines,” says Ph.D., Head of the Cabinet-Museum of Yu. A. Zhdanov in the North Caucasus Scientific Center of Higher School of the Institute of Physical Education and Science of Southern Federal University Elena Chapny.
The office-museum of Yu. A. Zhdanov is a unique place, it is steeped in history, and preserves the memory of different periods of Yuri Andreevich’s life, including the war years.
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On the Internet, no one will tell you about how Yuri Andreevich survived the war, how he served in the Main Political Directorate… You can only learn about this within the walls of the Cabinet-Museum.
Here you can find unique exhibits: real shoulder straps and a buttonhole, an album with photographs from the period of the Great Patriotic War, where Zhdanov celebrates victory in Vienna, and also a personal file of Yuri Andreevich, which was obtained from the archives of the military registration and enlistment office of the Kirov region. In his personal file there are many interesting documents, records, letters and a description that Yuri Andreevich wrote about himself. And also Yuri Andreevich’s article “The Imperialist Essence of German Racism,” which was published in a Viennese newspaper in 1945. In this article, Zhdanov provides a theoretical understanding of German racism.
The office-museum is open to students of the Southern Federal University and to everyone who wants to get acquainted with the biography and scientific heritage of Yuri Andreevich Zhdanov. Elena Chapny will give her own open lecture, talk about the contribution of Yuri Zhdanov not only to Russian and Soviet science, but also to the approach of the most important event in the history of our country – Victory Day!
The lecture materials on “Yu. A. Zhdanov’s contribution to the victory of the Soviet people over German fascism” can be found at the link.
For group applications to visit the Cabinet-Museum, you can write to [email protected], [email protected] or call: 8-908-507-60-69, Elena Chapny, North Caucasus Scientific Center of Higher School of Southern Federal University.
Author: Anastasia Dashevskaya.