In the year marking the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, speakers and participants will discuss the creative dimension of historical memory and its priorities. A separate focus will be on the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators. It is symbolic that the creative interpretation of historical memory is enshrined in law as one form of commemoration, under the law “On Perpetuating the Memory of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.” In this spirit, recent years have seen the creation of works of art and literature, museum exhibitions, and musical compositions.
Moderator: Elena Malysheva, Head of the National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation, member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, Honored Archivist of Russia.
Speakers:
- Ekaterina Yakovleva, Director of the Documentary Broadcasting Directorate at RT;
- Olga Khomova, Director General of the Saint Petersburg State Budgetary Cultural Institution “State Academic Capella of Saint Petersburg”;
- Hayk Grigoryan, music producer, author and creator of the project “Opera Night”.
- Valeria Pozikova, Head of the Creative Programs Directorate of the Russian Union of Youth;
- Pyotr Baranov, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, board member of the Moscow Union of Artists, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Association of Moscow Sculptors;
- Innara Guseinova, Vice-Rector for Youth Policy and Educational Work, Moscow State Linguistic University;
- Kirill Baloban, actor in the multi-part feature film “Taganrog”;
- Ilya Vasiliev, Chairman of the Board of the Alexander Pechersky Foundation;
- Gauhar Aldiyarova, Head of the MirA Studio.