As part of the cooperation activity between SPbGASU and the St Petersburg regional branch of the Russian society "Knowledge", Associate Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy Evgeny Guryev gave a lecture to employees of the linear police departments on transport of the Vitebsk and Varshavsky railway stations.

The lecture “Soviet military leadership in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Evgeny Pavlovich introduced the audience to the main periods into which the history of the Great Patriotic War is divided: the defensive period, the period of radical change and the offensive period. The lecture was based on the history of Soviet military art from the unsuccessful Border Battle of 1941 to the victorious May of 1945. The milestones of this history were the main battles of the Great Patriotic War: the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, the Belorussian, Berlin and Manchurian offensive operations. The lecture emphasized the importance of remembering the events of the war and the efforts that were made to achieve Victory.

"I have been studying the Great Patriotic War since my first year at university. I have two textbooks on it," the teacher said.

"The performances of the teachers of the SPbGASU Department of History and Philosophy as speakers of the Russian Society "Knowledge" testify to their high qualifications and form a positive public opinion about the university. Other lectures by Evgeny Guryev are also planned: the next one will take place on 17 April - for the employees of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St Petersburg," said Irina Lapina, Head of the SPbGASU Department of History and Philosophy.