Russkii Arkhiv

177-192

Authors: Oleg A. Grom

The articles of Bessarabian intellectuals from the Moldavian press of the early 20th century are published in Russian for the first time. The texts deal with the issues of language, history and national identity of Bessarabian Moldavians or Romanians, as they were treated by the authors. The publication may be useful for the comparative analysis of the national movements in the Russian Empire.

204-219

Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko, Maxim V. Medvedev

This publication describes the formation of the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Priazov Area and Donbass in 1920s. The territorial dispute was completed in 1925, when the greater part of the Taganrog and Shakhtinsky Districts were acceded to the North Caucasus Region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Published documents are extracted from the fund of the North Caucasian Regional Committee of the Party of the Documentation Center of the Modern History of the Rostov Region. They talk about the difficulty of reconciling the circumstances of the transfer of the territories between the authorities of the South-East (North Caucasus) Region and Donbass (Donetsk Province).

236-252

Authors: Alla V. Shadrina

After 1941, in the Soviet Union, many churches were reopened due to the Great Patriotic War, and as a consequence of it, the clerical social group began to form again. The selected questionnaires of the priests of the Rostov Region published for the first time, show that the clergy of the Rostov Diocese of the 1940s and 1950s was characterized by heterogeneity. The priests who became members of the clergy of that time, in their majority, considered their service as a survival strategy.

87-95

Authors: Olga V. Valuyskova

The article characterizes the forms of use of archival documents about World War II in order to popularize scientific knowledge and patriotic education. This article was prepared on the basis of experience of the Documentation Center of the Modern History of the Rostov Region.

103-115

Authors: Ilya V. Kiselev

It is the first publication of combat characteristics of the Coastal Army that defended Sevastopol in 1941–1942. The document describes Army units and formations, their actions in defense of the city from the German-Romanian troops. Also commanders of the Coastal Army are evaluated and the preliminary results of the Sevastopol defense are summed up.

132-147

Authors: Arailym S. Mussagaliyeva

Archival documents of the State archive of Astana reveal the history of Akmola region during the Great Patriotic War. The publication includes new sources for the work of the evacuated plant № 317 in Akmolinsk.

15-26

Authors: Nikita V. Petrov

The interview with Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov and with Tatiana Mikhaylovna Nikolaeva was dedicated to their private life during 1930–1950s, their pre-military childhood and the everyday life of postwar Moscow. Elements of old Moscow’s architectural images and some urban legends are mentioned in the interview. Memoirs contain an unofficial oral version of Soviet history.

47-52

Authors: Irina A. Kuznetsova

The interview with Fedora Kravchenko, born in the Uspensky District of the Krasnodarsky Kray, actualizes the issue of the research potential of biographical materials collected in ethnographic expeditions. The gap between individual stories and generalized facts is discussed. The peculiarities of youth relationships and marital strategies in the Kuban region in the pre-war period are characterized.

64-72

Authors: Natalia B. Gramatchikova

The article presents a review of memoirs and documentary materials collected by inhabitants of Uralmash and about the Uralmash itself. Most attention is paid to the Second World War and post-war years, although there are a number of interesting documents dating back to the beginning of construction of the factory (1928) and the first five-year period. This book also includes a section written by the honoured teacher of Russia, G.P. Staduhina, about more than a century of School №160 history in the village of Pishma (now located in Ordzhonikidzevsky District of Yekaterinburg). This collection of materials is interesting and worth reading due to the oral history of the Uralmash and the Great Patriotic War in the Urals, and because it gives a “snap shot” of the development of Russian provincial journalism in the early 21st century.