Historical memory: modern challenges
1. Historical memory is a key field of cognitive warfare
Blurring the priorities of historical memory, shifting cultural and value dominants is aimed at destroying the unity and integrity of the state, challenging its position in the international arena, inciting ethnic hatred and social conflicts.
2. Falsification of history
Active influence on changing attitudes towards the events of national history, falsification of historical facts lead to a change in worldview, undermine confidence in social institutions and become the causes of the collapse of statehood.
3. Devaluation of the feat of the ancestors
The gap in the continuity of generations serves as a fertile ground for changing values, rejecting socially accepted norms and forming personal and collective feelings of guilt, which leads to a weakening of state sovereignty and the dominance of foreign narratives in the socio-cultural sphere.
4. The destruction of traditional values and foundations of Russian civilization
Traditions represent the centuries-old cultural foundation of society and are the basis for its development. The rejection of traditions leads to the degradation of society and the loss of value orientations for moving into the future.
5. Atomization of scientific and educational space
Historical memory has an interdisciplinary profile, covering all spheres of society and being the basis of interethnic and intercultural harmony. Fragmentation of knowledge, which is not united by common meanings, leads to a decrease in interest in the humanitarian field as the basis of national self-identification, and as a result, to a loss of self-identification with the state.
Media platform of the National Center of Historical Memory
Digital resources for preserving historical memory
The media platform was created in order to create an accessible resource for the dissemination of historical and educational content for non-commercial purposes free of charge.
The media platform consolidates author’s content in the field of historical memory preservation, feature films, documentaries, and public cinema.
335 feature films, documentaries, and educational videos from partner organizations have been published on the Media Platform.
335 feature films, documentaries, and educational videos from partner organizations have been published on the Media Platform.
To the authors and keepers of media content
Publish your materials on the platform while maintaining control over their use. Access to your content is provided to organizations only upon requests with a ban on commercial use and distribution. We protect the rights of authors and support the preservation of cultural heritage.
License agreements are drawn up in electronic form. In 2026, it is planned to integrate with the blockchain system of the Russian Center for the Turnover of Rights to the results of Creative Activity of the RCS. RF
License agreements are drawn up in electronic form. In 2026, it is planned to integrate with the blockchain system of the Russian Center for the Turnover of Rights to the results of Creative Activity of the RCS. RF
To TV companies, organizations and institutions
Use the platform’s materials to implement educational and social projects. Apply for access to the content, specifying the purpose of use. After reviewing the application, you will be given free, free access. We ask you to provide a report on the use of media platform materials within 6 months.
The use of materials outside the scope of the created application, as well as for commercial purposes, including the insertion of advertisements, is prohibited by the license agreement.
The use of materials outside the scope of the created application, as well as for commercial purposes, including the insertion of advertisements, is prohibited by the license agreement.
Selected media platform content
- Films from the collection of the Gosfilmofond of Russia
- Documentaries created as part of the "No Statute of Limitations" project
- Documentaries of the Zvezda TV channel
- Educational videos
Routes of historical memory
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Zmievskaya gully. In 1942, about 27,000 residents of Rostov were shot and killed in variouse ways by the Nazis. Currently, there is a memorial complex on this site, built in 1975. It is based on the monumental sculptural composition "Victims of execution" made of gray concrete without a pedestal, which rises in the depths of the beam and embodies the collective image of the dead.
Photos from open sources
Photos from open sources
Ksty is a memorial complex in the Penovsky district of the Tver region, established on the site of a village destroyed during the Great Patriotic War. Before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, there were nine courtyards in the village of Ksty. In October 1941, it was occupied by Nazi troops. On January 9, 1942, soldiers of the SS division "Death's Head" shot and burned alive 78 civilians. On May 5, 1985, the Ksty Memorial Complex appeared on the mass grave where the memory of the victims of the genocide rests.
Photos from open sources
Photos from open sources
Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery is a mournful monument to the victims of the the Great Patriotic War, a witness to the universal tragedy and a place of worship. The memorial is dedicated to all residents and defenders of besieged Leningrad. People cherish the memory of the heroes of the defense of Leningrad, and the lines from Olga Bergholts’s epitaph "No one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten," the memorable text on the friezes of the pavilions "To you, our selfless defenders…" by Mikhail Dudin confirm this.
Photos from open sources
Photos from open sources
The Sands Memorial. During the occupation period from 1941 to 1944, six (according to other sources, seven) concentration camps were located on the territory of Petrozavodsk, which contained about 20,000 prisoners from Karelia and the Leningrad Region. About seven thousand people died due to the unbearable conditions of the camp regime. One of the places of their burial was the city cemetery in Peski. On June 24, 2017, a memorial was unveiled in the entrance area of the cemetery in memory of the prisoners of the Petrozavodsk concentration camps. According to the idea of the author, Fyodor Parshin, an artist—sculptor, a member of the Russian and Moscow Unions of Artists, it symbolizes the split destinies of the dead and survivors. The memorial commemorates the names of 3.5 thousand victims of the occupation regime.
Photos from open sources
Photos from open sources
Memorial routes to the sites of the Nazi genocide of civilians in Russia and abroad
The project aims to preserve the truth about the genocide of the Soviet people by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Great Patriotic War by creating audio guides to memorial complexes and places of remembrance in the Russian Federation and abroad.
The project has created guidebooks and audio guides to places of memory, available in Russian, English and German, with a view to their widespread use in sightseeing and tourism work, the educational process and educational activities.
The project has created guidebooks and audio guides to places of memory, available in Russian, English and German, with a view to their widespread use in sightseeing and tourism work, the educational process and educational activities.
Route cards
The aggregator is designed to accumulate historical and patriotic routes with the possibility of adding an audio guide. The Center is developing a mobile application with interactive quizzes when visiting memory sites. Based on the aggregator, it is planned to create an accessible set of audio guides for citizens, tourist and sightseeing purposes.
The aggregator is filled with walking and driving routes to memorable places, including architectural monuments, museums and other places associated with points of historical memory of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
The aggregator is filled with walking and driving routes to memorable places, including architectural monuments, museums and other places associated with points of historical memory of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
An information description is formed for each memory object, which includes:
- Audio guide to the information point
- Text description of the object
- Photos of objects
- Mobile application
The National Center for Historical Memory is developing a mobile application with interactive history quizzes.
Routes and locations of the aggregator
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