Letters from the front: Library named after. V. G. Belinsky - to the 60th anniversary of the Victory / [comp. N. Sulimova, E. Yakubovskaya]. — Ekaterinburg: Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after. V. G. Belinsky, 2005.

The idea of publishing letters from the front stored in the library archives came to us somehow suddenly, unexpectedly. The pioneer and singer of this topic in the library in the year of the 60th anniversary of the Victory was Valentina Ilyinichna Ryabukhina, chief specialist of the department of local history literature. And then the letters “hooked” many: on the wave of new interest in the war, the living voices of those who fought and won the Victory sounded like something different, especially. We are probably tired of television pathos, political speculation, outright lies. I wanted to make these texts, amazing in today’s times, accessible to many, first of all, those who still remember what honor, duty, Motherland, freedom, feat are...