No one is forgotten

In a memory of the Great Patriotic War, the films created with the support of the Society, will be shown in Moscow and St. Petersburg RGS lecture halls on June 22.

At 19:00 the guests of the Moscow headquarters of the RGS (Moscow, Novaya Ploschad, 10, p. 2) will meet the creators of the film "Polar Brotherhood" Valdis Pelsh and Elena Potanina.

This is a picture of the cooperation of the Russian and British air forces in the Arctic in 1941, when the British pilots helped to smash the fascists under the Murmansk Soviet military.

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Scene from the movie "Polar Brotherhood". Photo is provided by the creators of the film.
Scene from the movie "Polar Brotherhood". Photo is provided by the creators of the film.

Those days the 151st air wing of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain was formed from the number of 500 British military experts.

It is interesting that originally the British were collected at the airfield Leconfield, where they were vaccinated against tropical diseases and issued equipment for the southern latitudes, and then, in a situation of utmost secrecy, they were sent to the Arctic to help the Soviet Union survive one of the most difficult periods of the war.

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Photo is provided by the creators of the movie "Polar Brotherhood"
Photo is provided by the creators of the movie "Polar Brotherhood"

The film tells about several months of the amazing polar brotherhood, when the Russians and the British lived, learned from each other and fought, as they say, the wing to the wing. The premiere of the film is timed to the 75th anniversary of the death of one of the main characters in the film, Boris Feofontovich Safonov, the first twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Photo is provided by the creators of the movie "Polar Brotherhood"
Photo is provided by the creators of the movie "Polar Brotherhood"

The film is strictly historically accurate and at the same time, the authors of the film used a wide arsenal of modern technical means. They used computer graphics, historical reconstructions, real combat aircraft of the forties and black-and-white front-line chronicles appeared in a color version.

The entrance to the Moscow lecture hall is free, by appointment.

At the same time, at 19:00, in the lecture hall of Shokalsky (St. Petersburg, Grivtsova, 10a) will be screened the film "Geographers - the Great Victory."

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Scene from the movie "Geographers - Great Victory"
Scene from the movie "Geographers - Great Victory"

The film was created as part of a joint project of the Russian Geographical Society and the Russian Defense Ministry with the support of the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FGC UES).

The audience will learn about the unknown feats of the "geographic special forces" - surveyors, geodesists, geomorphologists and other specialists, who helped to build the "Road of Life", to hold a military parade on Red Square in November 1941, to organize an assault on Berlin and much more.

For a long time, the exploit of military geographers remained in the shadows, as many of them worked on projects classified as "secret." The creation of the film uses the unique declassified military geographic materials of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of Russia and the funds of the Scientific Archive of the Russian Geographical Society, the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other organizations. The film became part of a large-scale special project of the RGS "From geographers - to Great Victory", dedicated to the 70th anniversary of this significant event.