International Academic Conference
War in the Arctic 1944–1945: Military Operations – Everyday Life – Memory
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International Academic Conference
War in the Arctic 1944–1945: Military Operations – Everyday Life – Memory
Moscow, October 8-9, 2019
Working languages: Russian, English
Papers – 20 mins.
October 8 (Leninski prospect 32 a, Beige Hall, 3rd floor)
09.30–10.00 Registration
10.00–10.30 Greetings
10.30–11.45 First session
Moderator: Viktor Ischenko, PhD, Institute of World History, RAS
Papers: Alexey Komarov, PhD, Institute of World History, RAS The European North in 1944–1945: War and Diplomacy
Kimmo Rentola, Prof., University of Helsinki The Soviet Union and Finland’s Withdrawal from the War in 1944
Henrik Meinander, Prof., University of Helsinki Horizons of Expectation: Finnish Strategies in the War in the Arctic, 1944–1945
Q&A. Discussion
11.45–12.15 Сoffee Break
12.15–13.30 Second session
Moderator: Tom Kristiansen, Prof., University of Tromsø – Arctic University of Norway
Papers: Alexander Chapenko, PhD, Murmansk Arctic State University The problematic issues of fighting in the Murmansk area in 1941-1944. (based on materials from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation)
Sven G. Holtsmark, Prof., Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies The Norwegian Government and the Soviet Liberation of Øst-Finnmark
Gunnar Åselius, Prof., Swedish Defense University Sweden and the Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive, October 1944 –January 1945
Q&A. Discussion
13.30–14.45 Lunch
14.45–16.00 Third session
Moderator: Sergei Verigin, Prof., Director of the Institute of History, Political and Social Sciences, Petrozavodsk State University
Papers: Vasiliy Khristoforov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian History, RAS The Process of Negotiating the Truce between the USSR and Finland in 1944: Visible and Covert Leverage in the Documents from the Russian archives
Tom Kristiansen, Prof., University of Tromsø – Arctic University of Norway The Petsamo-Kirkenes Campaign and the Soviet Liberation of Finnmark in British, German and Norwegian historiography
Ekaterina Orekhova, PhD, Murmansk Regional Local Lore Museum Employing Animals in the Troops of the Karelian Front, 1941–1944
Q&A. Discussion
16.00–16.10 Coffee Break
16.10–17.25 Fourth session
Moderator: Kimmo Rentola, Prof., University of Helsinki
Papers: Yulia Moshnik, PhD, Vyborg Museum “Towards Petsamo”. Military actions of the III Finnish Army Corps in October 1944
Alexander Rupasov, Prof., St. Petersburg Institute of History (N. P. Likhachev House), RAS Northern Defensive Sector of the Soviet Northern Navy in the Petsamo- Kirkenes Operation (March – October 1944)
Dmitriy Zhuravlev, PhD, Museum of Military Medicine, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Hospitals of the Northern Navy in 1944–1945
October 9 (Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, RGASPI, 15 Bolshaya Dmitrovka st.)
09.30–10.00 Arrival of participants to the RGASPI.
10.00–11.15 Fifth session
Moderator: Andrey Sorokin, Director of the Russian State Archive of Socio- Political History (RGASPI)
Papers: Sergei Verigin, Prof., Director of the Institute of History, Political and Social Sciences, Petrozavodsk State University Arctic Raids of the Karelian front guerrillas, 1942–1944
Stian Bones Prof., University of Tromsø – Arctic University of Norway Abwehr and Soviet Intelligence Activities in Eastern Finnmark. Hunting Down the «Partisans»
Konstantin Kotkin, PhD, Murmansk Regional Local Lore Museum Duty, Everyday Life, Feat, and Trauma: Poles of Arctic Guerrillas’ Memoirs of the Great Patriotic War
11.15–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.45 Sixth session
Moderator: Sven G. Holtsmark, Prof., Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies
Marianne Neerland Soleim, Prof., University of Tromsø – Arctic University of Norway Soviet Prisoners of War in Norway and Northern Finland – Treatment, Deaths and Forgotten Memories
Marina Panikar, PhD, Mikhail Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University Repatriation of Soviet Prisoners of War from Norway (based on participants’ memoirs)
Yulia Kantor, Prof., Institute of World History, RAS “Farewell, rocky mountains, to the feat the Motherland calls”. War in the Arctic in Genetic Memory and Ego-Documents
Q&A. Discussion
12.45–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.00 Seventh session
Moderator: Yulia Kantor, Prof., Institute of World History, RAS
Papers: Pavel Filin, PhD, Deputy Director of the echnological Development of the Arctic Museum and xhibition enter The role of the Northern Sea Route during theТ Great Patriotic War Е С Liudmila Mezit, PhD, Viktor Astafiev Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University “We honestly helped the front.” Enterprises of the Yenisei North in 1941– 1944
Q&A. Discussion
15.10–15.30 Conclusions. Closure
15.30–17.00 Tour of the RGASPI. Exhibition visit