Evacuation of the Historical Library’s Collections to Khvalynsk and Kustanay (1941—1944): A Documentary Chronicle

The article presents a documentary and memoir story of the evacuation of the State Public Historical Library collections in the summer and autumn of 1941, together with the funds of other Moscow libraries and museums (including the Lenin State Library of the USSR and the State Historical Museum) on a barge to Khvalynsk (in the Saratov region), and then to the city of Kustanay, the Kazakh SSR, the activities of the United Museum and Library Repository No. 1 and the return of library collections to Moscow in the summer of 1944. Some published documents are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.