Almost touching today requests last pre-war days. June 17, 1941 resident article Maselskaya the Karelo-Finnish SSR Z. V. Alekseev goes to the Publichka: “In the absence in our area of the encyclopedia please do not refuse to report, as explained in Russian the foreign word “psychopath”. Remain in expectation of the answer.”
the Letter was was June 21, 1941 Response to two sheets sent on July 4.
And on the second day of the war, June 23, a request comes in from the Studio “thumbnail”: “…received an urgent task produce for the red army and the broad masses of working people of the Soviet country a series of short advocacy films, revealing the face of modern fascism. Therefore the Studio must as soon as possible to collect in the libraries of the city of Leningrad and to provide for the use of the scripting different stuff…”
June 24: “Library Simolestes asks not to refuse to send a list of books on the medicinal drug sulfide”.
June 30: “Please issue the temporary use for classes of readers the book “the Sealed door for shelters”.
July 10: order books on the organization of a camp (mobile) repair of motor columns.
July 25 laboratory community health requests “immediately to indicate Russian and foreign bibliography on the issue of decontamination of dwellings and household items”.
July 28: request to the Department of external services: “Gorky regional scientific library asks you to urgently send a bibliography of literature on the handling of guns” (PostScript by hand: the list sent August 1).
August 7: application from orgsudprom of Leningrad in the bibliography for the production of ammunition (cartridges) for shells.
13 August: the demand for literature on the treatment of gas gangrene in Russian, German, French.
September 6: the request of the Institute N34: “Please urgently find bibliographic material for the production of artificial flints for lighters. Payment of the account. Director of the research Institute-34 (N. D. Gorbunov)”.
And September 8, 1941 Leningrad was blocked.
October 8: in the Publichka request comes from the headquarters of the Leningrad military district: “…please create a certificate on the application of London fabric for sealing the window of Windows”.
October 29: the appeal of the Navy “to assist in the compilation of materials on the following topics: 1) the skis and their use in modern warfare. 2) the war in winter conditions”.
December 1: request from the hospital N 2012 “to provide for the care of the book and send to the library 2 to your fellow employees.”
the War was rapidly squeezing Leningrad in a deadly ring. And the Huntington library.ESA took readers and processed the order. Here is one of them that came in the mail at the end of the 41st: “I am an invalid of the 1st group and had to be in bed. I would like to do crafts…” the Author Lyubov Alexandrova, requests the information published from 1910 to 1918 the women’s magazines with patterns. A reply-to address is specified with the PostScript, the authors of “evacuated from the area of meat” (was at the front line).
has Experienced the Love A. winter of the siege?
the thin sheets of tissue paper – typewritten chronicle of the life of Publicke in 1942 Meticulously prepared for us, the children, the progress report:
“Despite the extremely adverse working conditions, a significant loss of personnel and severe physical condition, – the work not only died, but was thus that the library is one of the few existing research organizations of the city became a vital link in its defense. During 1942 in the reading room was serviced 1449 new readers. For 8 months the attendance was 9588 people, most in December – 1398 people (it was the coldest month of the first year of the siege, people came to read and bask – Auth.). From the General Fund and library departments issued 36402 volumes”.
read the people of Leningrad, coming to the library from the hungry bread lines? That could distract them from their daily terror attacks? “Changed the demand for foreign literature. Greatly increased interest in the periodicals, foreign Newspapers and magazines, especially illustrated editions. Increased demand for materials for learning the English language. The increased demand is observed also on the literature of the Scandinavian countries…”
And yet were not translated, the readers in the music division!
according to the report, “in 1942 in order legal Deposit the library has received 14 934 unit of storage in addition 115 668 copies of Newspapers and 1199 – small stuff.”
the people of Leningrad not only read books – they were saved.
From the report: “the Peculiar conditions of the city-front: evacuation, severe conditions of winter 41/42 in the destruction from the bombing and shelling has put forward to the library the need to take urgent measures to rescue the book of property lost in broken homes, often half-stolen or burned. Strength and capabilities of the acquisition Department for this task was so insignificant that in the beginning I had books to bring on your shoulders, making trips on foot, to use the stroller to carry books, and much later organized transportation was carried out on the car… On January 1, 1942 there have been over 170 libraries addresses of citizens, their volume was from a few dozen to 10,000 volumes. The team had to enter the apartment ��asto through the gaps of the walls, to ship out of the Windows, to collect scraps of valuable materials among the debris of bricks, mortar, broken of charred apartments, you can get literature from 5-6 floor, quickly shipping houses doomed to demolition, to extract dirt and debris damp, mouldy or burnt books and manuscripts.”
So was saved a Leningrad library, which was immediately described by the bibliographers of Publicke. In particular, it has been stored a priceless collection of professors A. I. Cuba, E. P. Andreev, engineer P. Matveeva, bibliophiles, V. M. Losev, and A. A. Smirnov, a historian of Russian literature and scholar N. About. Lerner and many others. And this at a time when only in 1942 in the State public library died 114 current employees.
the Library worked. But rather defended the treasures of the Motherland. Continued correspondence with scientific organizations and authors. Through the Book chamber and directly from publishers in the Publichka was received books. In the besieged city were printed publications and periodicals, who also came to the library. And, of course, her staff carried the watch to “rig”: the roof of the famous case on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Sadovaya street, to cut firewood in the yard, restored communication (from the minutes of the meeting at the Directorate of Publicly – “the 1944 scheduled work: reconstruction of the heating system and plumbing, facades, glazing of Windows required 2000 sq m of glass…”
Who are these heroic warriors of Publicke?
Alexander Khristoforovich Wolper immediately after the revolution served as head of the Department of canteens in Ekaterinoslavl. When came to the city “white”, moved to Saratov, and from there to Kharkov. Careers the party line, he moved to Leningrad, in 1936, became Director of the library. The further events of his life – in the documents of the archive of Publicly.
the Winter of 1941, when conscription the Wolper installed an extreme degree of degeneration. On December 17, “tov. Wolper traveled to the town of Melekes to work for the management division of the library for organizing and securing evacuated its values.” After the siege was lifted on 1 June 1944, a decision is made “in connection with the review of Wolper A. H. at the disposal of the people’s Commissariat of the RSFSR to dismiss him Malceski office of the State public library”. He was awarded medals “For defense of Leningrad” and “For valiant labor in the great Patriotic war” and was appointed editor of political broadcasting in Lenediamine. Then teaching and honored, a personal pension.
And in Leningrad from October 2, 1941, the Director was entrusted to Elena Filippovna Egorenkova. She was 34 years old, graduated from the Oriental Institute in Leningrad, knew the language. I worked in Stalinabad the Tajik SSR. In 1940 came in the Public library.yoku scientific Secretary. And took on their fragile female shoulders all the hardships of the blockade years. No wonder essays about Egorenkova out in the foreign press – visited Leningrad Western journalists to show the world the courage of the city. She personified. However, “not heroics, but lived” – so much about myself and Leningrad women wrote Olga Fedorovna Bergholz (with poet friends bibliographer Mariya Mashkova, who left poignant memories of war).
Egorenkova – acting Director, Director of the library in the evacuation. It was left “on the farm”, but she just kept the Publichka, and multiplied its riches and glory. And in 1946 passed the case to the new Director.
Then one of the Director of the scientific library of Leningrad, worked as an instructor in the Dzerzhinsky district Committee of the party. After the siege and knowing the price of deeds and words, come into conflict with one of the senior officials. When he decided to return to the library, got a feature, more like a denunciation. Worst thing that’s happened…
the Identity of Yelena Filippovna Egorenkovoj requires that, in the year of the 75th anniversary of the Victory to honour her memory.
