Front-line brigades: art and war презентация

The aim of my work: is to observe the role of the Front concert teams during the Great Patriotic war, their contribution to the Victory and in general to show the heroism of all the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic war, their patriotism.
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The object of the research is Art during the Great Patriotic war.
The subject is Front concert teams’ activity during the Great Patriotic war.
The objectives are:
1. to learn the literature about this problem;
2. to analyze the information about the object of the research;
3. to interpret the results of the research.

The hypothesis of the research – Did the activity of the Front concert teams influence on the Soviet soldiers’ mood, their moral spirit?

June 21, 1941
the troupe of the Maly theater under the leadership of Nikolai Alexandrovich Annenkov played a concert in the Volyn region in the North-West of the Ukraine, where one of the garrisons of the Workers 'and peasants' Red army was.

The front-line theater on the South-Western front.
The play "Suvorov” is on the stage. August 1942. Photo: by Georgy Zelma.

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In fact, the actors of the Maly theater became the first front concert team.

The Plenum of the Central Committee of the Union of actors published the «Appeal to all creative workers»
on June 23, 1941:
«Wherever there are parts of our Red army and Navy, art workers share with the soldiers the war life. Now our art is powerful means of the victory of communism over fascism.»

During the Great Patriotic war, Leonid Utyossov, with his jazz band, gave more than 200 concerts on different fronts. They worked in
the hardest conditions, were bombed out a dozen times.

Izabella Yurieva. Only in the besieged Leningrad she gave 106 concerts, getting there on the Road of Life. In winter, when it was 38 degrees of cold, she sang on the Karelian and Kalininsky fronts. Without a microphone.

In total during the Great Patriotic war about four thousand front concert teams were organized, from them more than 700 were organized in Moscow and more than 500 were organized in Leningrad.

The Director of the Moscow art theatre, Joseph Moisseyevich Rayevsky described the Soviet soldiers: “We appealed to ordinary spectators, who had been separated from families, from their business and had been forced to take up arms. At the same time, these viewers were extraordinary! It was necessary to show them high art, telling them about the triumph of life, truth, justice.”

Among the active participants of the front concert teams the greatest actors were: Lyubov Orlova, Nina Ruslanova, Arkadii Raikin, Leonid Utyossov, AllaTarasova and others.

Lyubov Orlova is on the improvised stage - the wing of the downed Nazi aircraft..

Claudia Shulzhenko. During the first year of the Leningrad blockade she gave 500 concerts, she went to the front hundreds of times. In 1942 she was awarded with the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", and May 9, 1945 – the order of the Red Star.

In total, 1 million 350 thousand performances and concerts were played. 42,000 actors took part in the concerts, some of them performed on various fronts several hundred times.
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The role and contribution of front concert teams and theaters to the VICTORY was very great!
More than three thousand art workers were awarded with orders and medals of the Soviet Union.