The Post-War Everyday Life of Leningrad and the Popularization of the Tanya Savicheva Image. Interview with A. V. Uralov

The interview materials reflect a little-studied topic - the popularization of the image of Tanya Savicheva and the "blockade diary" in the Soviet era, show the attention to the blockade topic in the 1950s - 1980s, contain information about the daily life of the post-war years, as well as the fate of the apartment where the diary was written, which became a symbol of the terrible events of the siege of Leningrad. A retrospective assessment is made by a direct participant in the events, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Uralov, a resident of the Savichevs' apartment, whose family received it in 1944. Aleksandr Vladimirovich is a witness to the post-war years, the popularization of the image of Tanya Savicheva and the original appearance of the place where the "blockade diary" was written. The interview describes visits of creative figures of the Soviet period, composers, writers and poets of the sixties to the apartment. It also shows the process of perpetuating the memory of the victims of the blockade, including Tanya herself, in particular, the history of the formation of a memorial classroom, the installation of a plaque and the unrealized museumification of the apartment, emphasizes the importance of preserving the historical memory of the events of the Great Patriotic War.