“Step by step, the reconstruction of the Mariupol branch of the Museum of Local Lore, the former Kuindzhi Museum, is being completed. The renovation of the exposition of the Luhansk Museum of Local Lore is nearing completion,” he said, announcing the extensive RIO plans for 2023. According to Naryshkin, work has also begun on the transfer of the archaeological museum “Stone Tomb”, located on the territory of the Zaporozhye region, to the federal Museum “Tauric Chersonesos”.
RIO will celebrate all the dates associated with the liberation of Donbass and all of Novorossia from the Nazi invaders. This year, all these events are 80 years old. On February 14, 1943, Voroshilovgrad (now Lugansk) was cleared of the invaders, and on September 8, 1943, the city of Stalino, which is now called Donetsk. On September 23, Red Army units completely liberated Melitopol. Sergei Naryshkin promised that in February at the Melitopol State University, with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, public lectures of Russian historians dedicated to this stage of the Great Patriotic War will be organized.
“We are well aware that today history has turned into a “battlefield” and in order to emerge victorious from this battle, it is necessary to know history as it really is and was. This applies to literally everyone – future engineers and doctors. , musicians and economists, all those who receive higher education in our country”, he stressed.
Therefore, the state pays so much attention to school historical education. “On behalf of the President of the Russian Federation, he has started preparation of a new unified line of textbooks on the history of Russia for secondary schools,” said the head of the RIO. He recalled that good results have been achieved in the field of historical education. “Last year, together with the Ministry of Education and Science, we managed to double the amount of teaching of Russian history in higher education institutions in specialties and non-historical areas of study,” explained the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy. . of Science. Hundreds of amendments were adopted during public comment on this document. And at the end of January 2023, the final version of the concept will be submitted to the Ministry of Education and Science for approval.
