Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
For three days, the White Hall hosted a theatrical performance dedicated to the memory of the Polytechnic students and teachers who participated in the Great Patriotic War. Students from all areas of SPbPU training were involved in this large-scale event. The audience and performers were united by the desire to preserve the historical truth and convey it through art.
The play “Engineers of Victory” became an important part of the events of the Polytechnic University dedicated to the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The contribution of our university to the Victory is great. More than 4.5 thousand Polytechnicians fought at the front, the hydro corps housed a school for riflemen and radio operators, and the main building housed a hospital. Thanks to the engineers of the Polytechnic Institute, some of the best guns in the history of military equipment went on combat duty. From the stage of the White Hall, they told about the graduate of the mechanical engineering faculty Mikhail Koshkin, who created the legendary T-34 tank, about the graduate of the electromechanical faculty Pyotr Kapitsa, who received liquid oxygen and saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, about the Road of Life, about the protection of the navy from the enemy mine threat. But the most poignant moment of the production was the voiced letters from the front line.
“We listened with special trepidation to the letters of students who went to the front,” shared IMMIT first-year student Sofya Kochkina. “And when you see their portraits with the date of their death, it is impossible to hold back your tears. They were the same age as us!”
The production about the Polytechnic students of the war years involved today’s students: soloists of the SPbPU pop-symphony orchestra, members of the Student Theatre, the Polyhymnia Youth Choir, the Polytechnic Chamber Choir, and students of the Humanities Institute, which made the performance unusually touching and symbolic.
Particular attention in the stage action was given to the atmosphere – lighting, video footage, sound effects allowed the audience to immerse themselves in the events of those years, to feel the pain of loss and the joy of Victory.
“The audience stood up to the sounds of the metronome, because there was no other way to listen to the beats, which became a call to freeze and remember the Polytechnicians, whose portraits floated like a river through the White Hall as the Immortal Regiment. The audience also stood up when the choir performed the final composition, “Where does the Motherland begin?” said Marina Arkannikova, scriptwriter and director of the production “Engineers of Victory”, director of the Higher School of Media Communications and Public Relations of the State Institute of Culture, artistic director of the Directorate of Cultural Programs and Youth Creativity. “Of course, the production was special for all of us. This is our duty to the fallen heroes of the Great Patriotic War and such an important need today to talk to young people about our great historical past as part of our identity, about our contribution to the present and future of humanity.”
The production, created by the Directorate of Cultural Programs and Youth Creativity with the support of the Polytechnic Museum, became a living history lesson for students.
In a few days, the Immortal Regiment will “stand” on the SPbPU campus and on the territory of student dormitories — 80 portraits of polytechnic students who went to the front from their student days — so that everyone can feel that the Great Victory is backed by the lives of those who studied at our university, so that May 9 will forever become not only a date on the calendar, but also the history of every heart.
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