The role of the Museum of the History of Tomsk State University in preserving the memory of the participation of staff and students in the Great Patriotic War

The purpose of the article is to analyze the role of the Museum of History of Tomsk State University in preserving and popularizing materials about the participation of employees and students in the Great Patriotic War; about the activities of the university during the war period. The museum’s first step towards preserving the memory of the Great Patriotic War was the exhibition “Relics of the Great Victory”, which brought together letters, documents, photographs collected by front-line soldiers - university employees (1965). On May 3, 1995, the exhibition “Tomsk University during the Great Patriotic War” opened, which presented photographs, documents, and objects from the collections of the TSU History Museum. In 2005, a book of memoirs of home front workers, “With Faith in Victory! Tomsk University during the Great Patriotic War”. In 2015, the exhibition of the TSU History Museum “Tomsk University - Contribution to the Victory” opened. In the 2010s, the TSU History Museum continued to work to identify the names of those killed in the Great Patriotic War; Cooperation was established with the TSU Information Policy Department, joint materials were prepared for the Alma Mater newspaper, and a calendar of memorable dates was maintained. The museum staff prepared two thematic digital exhibitions: “Tomsk - the city of labor valor: Tomsk State University during the Great Patriotic War” (2020) and “Not a step back: TSU students and employees in the Battle of Stalingrad” (2023). Currently, the museum stores awards, photographs, documents, personal items from the personal collections of I.P. Laptev, V.N. Kessenikh, Yu.V. Chistyakov, M.A. Krivov, V.V. Pottosin, B.M. Tyulupo, V.S. Flerov and other TSU employees. Museum of the History of TSU, starting from the period of its activity as a room-museum of V.V. Kuibyshev, was engaged in collecting and preserving sources about the Great Patriotic War, personal collections of its participants, studying and popularizing them - holding exhibitions and excursions; work to identify the names of those killed in the war. Work in this direction continues to this day. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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