To winners’ generation – with love
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The presentation of the third (reprinted) version of the Great Heroic Deed wartime photo album took place at Gazprom VNIIGAZ. This reprint was dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the Great Victory and linked to the 50th Anniversary of the first issue of the album. The album comprises photos taken by battlefield journalists at all the stages of the Great Patriotic War: starting from the heaviest hardships of the first war months until the triumphant May of 1945. The authors of the photos are legendary Soviet battlefield journalists – Dmitry Baltermantz, Evgeny Khaldey, Anatoly Egorov, Yakov Ryumkin and others. The heir of Alexey Volgemut, the first compiling editor – Ernest Volgemut, PhD holder in Engineering Sciences, Chief Research Associate of Gazprom VNIIGAZ, initiated the reprint.
Initiator of reprint edition Ernest Volgemut, Chief Research Associate of Gazprom VNIIGAZ, tells about book origins
Pavel Tsybulsky, Director General of Gazprom VNIIGAZ, opened the presentation. For Gazprom VNIIGAZ the preparation and issue of this reprint edition has a historical and educational purpose, and it is not a commercial project. The album is to be distributed among educational institutions, veteran organizations, trade unions and non-governmental organizations.
Reprinted album presented to heirs of historical photo authors . Maria (left), granddaughter of battlefield journalist Arkady Shaykhet, receiving album
During the event several copies of the album were presented to the authors’ heirs, as well as to cultural and educational institutions. The album was given to secondary schools in the Razvilka settlement and the Lenin farm cooperative in the Leninsky District of the Moscow Region, St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Center for Continuing Education, Marshal Poluboyarov secondary school No. 982 in Moscow, Vidnovskaya high school, the History and Culture Center and the Inter-urban library in the Leninsky District of the Moscow Region as well as the Gorky Leninskiye State Museum-Reserve. Some of the reprinted albums were handed over to organizations – members of Neftegazstroyprofsoyuz (union of oil and gas industry workers) of Russia.
Part of issue given to cultural and educational institutions. Nina Khitrova, Chairwoman of Gazprom VNIIGAZ Trade Union, presenting photo album to representative of Gorky Leninskiye State Museum-Reserve
The event participants learnt a lot about the war biographies of photo journalists and many wartime photos from Ernest Volgemut, Chief Research Associate of Gazprom VNIIGAZ and the son of Alexey Volgemut, the first compiling editor.
Dmitry (left), grandson of photo journalist Dmitry Baltermantz extends his gratitude to initiators of album reprint
Guest of presentation Masha Voronova, member of Kantemirovetz search group of Marshal Poluboyarov secondary school No.982 in Moscow
The guests demonstrated great interest in the exhibition of wartime documents and photos called ‘To Winners’ Generation – with Love’. Gazprom VNIIGAZ employees, whose relatives fought in the lines of the Great Patriotic War, provided materials for the exhibition.
Yulia, granddaughter of battlefield journalist Robert Diament, at exhibition of wartime documents and photos ‘To Winners’ Generation – with Love’
Background
Gazprom VNIIGAZ is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom, a research center for developing and designing technologies for the gas industry, including gas field exploration and development, offshore oil and gas resource exploitation, gas processing and treatment; regulatory framework, design and operation of gas transportation and underground storage systems; environmental safety and energy efficiency.
The company’s headcount exceeds 1,500 specialists, including more than 50 Doctors of Sciences and 280 PhD holders as well as over 400 young scientists and engineers. The science and technology complex is comprised of more than one hundred industrial and research labs in the Moscow Region, Ukhta and Salekhard. Gazprom VNIIGAZ comprises the oldest post-graduate school in the gas industry as well as dissertation councils in seven disciplines.
An integrated management system meeting the ISO 9001:2008, STO Gazprom 9001:2006 and ISO 14001:2004 standards has been introduced and certified by the company.