09.11.2015  NovSU holds an International Academic Conference. Polish Consulate General is one of the organizers of the event

On November 6, at 02:00pm at the NovSU’s Humanitarian Institute (Antonovo, room 1204) started the International Academic Conference “Paths to Victory. Polish and Soviet resistance Movement against Nazi Occupation – Similarities and Differences.”

It was organized by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Saint Petersburg, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, and St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

There were the following reports in the conference program: 

1.    Prof. Sergey Kulik (Saint-Petersburg State University): Categories of Partisan Detachments in North-West Russia.

2.    Prof. Rafal Vnuk (the Museum of the Second World War; the Catholic University Of Lublin, Poland): The Polish Underground State and its Rivals: Four Faces of Underground.

3.    Prof. Boris Kovalev (St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences): The Russian Orthodox Church and the Partisan Movement.

4.    Prof. Bogdan Mutschal (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland): The Relationship between Polish and Soviet Partisans on the Territory of the Former North-Eastern Poland (which is Western Belarus now) in 1942-1944.

5.    Assistant professor Dmitri Astashkin (Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University): Partisans at the Trials on Nazis.

6.      Dr. Machei Korkuch (the Institute of National Remembrance, Krakow, Poland): The Reflection of Soviet-Polish Relations Regarding the Activities of Partisan Detachments on the Territory of the Republic of Poland in 1939-1945.  

7.      Valery Kolotushkin, the archivist of the State Archive of the Novgorod region: Memorialization of the Partisan Movement on the Novgorod Land. 

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