KRSU spoke about the Stalingrad feat of Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University took part in the International Network Platform «Start of a radical turning point: on the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad».
At the scientific forum, held on February 20 – 21 in an online format, the problems of preserving the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War and its significance for strengthening the spiritual unity of the peoples of the Eurasian space were discussed. Representatives of the Centers for Eurasian Studies of the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU), the Belarusian-Russian University, the Russian-Armenian University, the Russian-Tajik University and KRSU, university students took part in the discussion of the agenda.
The International Network Platform was opened by the President of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Efim Pivovar. Speaking about conducting coordinated Eurasian research, he noted the importance of including in research activities topics on the study of war and the contribution of each USSR republic to the overall victory over fascism.
Larisa Khoperskaya, director of the Center for Eurasian Studies KRSU, co-director of the Center for Eurasian Studies KRSU-RGGU, addressed the event participants with a welcoming speech. In her opinion, strengthening the attempts of revanchist forces to distort the history of the Second World War and neutralize the role of the Soviet people in the victory over Nazi Germany and its allies requires the consolidation of society and states based on strengthening the sense of involvement of citizens in a common great history.
Vice-Rector for Information and Public Relations Leonid Sumarokov, speaking with a report «Kyrgyzstan in the Battle of Stalingrad: unknown pages of history for the benefit of future unity», focused on the need to build systematic research work to uncover unknown pages of the Great Patriotic War and establish the fate of front-line soldiers – soldiers, commanders of the Red Army, home front workers. Having talked about the results of his search, he noted that filling the space of historical memory with new evidence of the feat of the Soviet people will serve for the benefit of strengthening the spiritual unity of the peoples who defended the united Fatherland from the brown plague of fascism.
On February 21, as part of the International Network Platform «Start of a radical turning point: on the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad», a public educational online lecture was held by the chief researcher of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mikhail Mukhin «Stalingrad. A battle on which everything depended» and a student international scientific conference, attended by students of the Faculty of Humanities KRSU.
