The article reviews the collection of documents “The Assault on Perekop in the Mirror of Historical Memory”, prepared in 2023 by the staff of the Russian State Archive in Samara (hereinafter RGA) under the direction of O. N. Soldatova together with Samara, Moscow and Sevastopol historians, archivists and museum staff. The materials of the collection consisted of documents from six fonds of federal archives - the Russian State Archive in Samara, the Russian State Military Archive, the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, as well as the Museum-Reserve of the Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol. The reviewers note that the compilers have carried out thorough preparatory work to identify, analyze and select complementary documents, the dominant part of which is being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. In terms of the development of archaeographic methodology, the collection is promising in terms of the proposed interdisciplinary approach, which combines the potential of historical science, archival science, source and art history in covering one of the most important events of the Civil War and related domestic commemorative practice of the late 1930s. It is stated that in this focus the structure of the collection is logical: the first section is devoted to the history of the Perekop-Chongar operation of 1920, the second - to the largest Soviet pre-war art project - the battle panorama “The Assault on Perekop” (1934-1940), lost during the Great Patriotic War, the third section - to the All-Union competition of projects for the construction of the building for the panorama, held in 1940. The merits of the extensive and well-developed scientific and reference apparatus of the publication are emphasized. The numbering, dating, legends and titles of published documents are positive features of this structural part. The publication is provided with notes and comments on the content, a biographical guide, lists of abbreviations and sources and literature, demonstrating its high archeographic level. The value of the collection of documents is also due to the inclusion of visual sources: photographs of the creators of the panorama, sketches by M. M. Soloviev, drawings and blueprints of the building project for the panorama “Assault on Perekop”. The authors of the review conclude that the publication has undoubted merits and the importance and relevance of its appearance in the world. Confidence is expressed in the emergence of interest of readers - historians, archival and museum workers, students, etc. to the reviewed novelty in a number of documentary collections and its active use in scientific and educational activities, as well as in the preparation of similar projects in the future.
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