title: Documents on the attempt to award the city of Novorossiysk the title of “Novorossiysk”. Novorossiysk the title Hero-City in 1958
abstract: The article notes that Hero-Cities played a significant role in perpetuating the memory of the events of the Great Patriotic War in the USSR. However, the circumstances of the very awarding of the honorary title in historiography are not given enough attention, including due to the lack of necessary sources at the disposal of researchers. The purpose of the publication is to introduce documents about the attempt to award Novorossiysk the honorary title of Hero-City in 1958. The initiative was ta
journal: Herald of an Archivist