Tatyana Gennadievna Nedzelyuk,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Siberian Institute of Management − A Branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Novosibirsk, Russia; Tobolsk Integrated Scientific Station of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tobolsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Materova,
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Childhood in Evacuation: Sources for Studying the History of the Daily Life of Children’s Institutions Evacuated to the South of Western Siberia During the Great Patriotic War
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2025-2-14
The article is devoted to the characterization of the source potential for reconstructing the history of the daily life of children’s institutions evacuated to the south of Western Siberia during the Great Patriotic War. The evacuation of children from places of military operations has acquired an urgent meaning in modern history. The historiography presents various, often contradictory, interpretations of the narrative “childhood in evacuation”, which prompts us to once again turn to the topic of sources for studying the history of the daily life of children’s institutions that changed their location during the Great Patriotic War. Children from besieged Leningrad and other occupied regions sought to settle in a warm climatic area (as far as possible in Siberia), and therefore the territorial locus of the study covers the Altai Territory, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Kemerovo regions and the south of Tomsk. The Altai village of Belokurikha became the home of the All-Union Artek Children’s Camp for the period from 1942 to 1945. The office documentation on the research topic was identified by us as part of the archival collections of the State Archive of the Novosibirsk Region, the Novosibirsk City Archive, the State Archive of the Tomsk Region, the State Archive of the Altai Territory, the State Archive of Kuzbass. Sources of oral origin, materials of biographical interviews with former teachers, children from orphanages, Artek residents and their classmates provide an opportunity to study the history of extreme everyday life during the war.
Publishing: 28/04/2025
The article has been received by the editor on 26/01/2025
How to cite: Nedzelyuk T.G., Materova E.V. Childhood in Evacuation: Sources for Studying the History of the Daily Life of Children’s Institutions Evacuated to the South of Western Siberia During the Great Patriotic War // Historical Courier, 2025, No. 2 (40), pp. 174−183. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2025/ISTKURIER-2025-2-14.pdf]
Links: Issue 2 2025
Keywords: The Great Patriotic War; Western Siberia; history of childhood; alltagsgeschichte; source study; evacuation of the civilian population