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Nika Plus TV channel aired a story about the international project “Ordinary Man in a Great War”. The project will produce a new historical tourist route encompassing several districts in Russian Karelia and in Finland.

“Adding a humanitarian dimension to the war theme is the project’s specialty. Showing how ordinary people lived through this tough time on both sides of the border, both in battlefield trenches and in villages and hamlets”, - said Pavel Petrov, head of the KarRC RAS Department for International Cooperation, in his interview about the project idea.
Within this project, Deputy Director for Science at the KarRC RAS Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History Svetlana Yalovitsina takes a series of interviews with people in the Kostomukshsky and Kalevalsky Districts, recording their recollections about the war. The stories, together with memorabilia from family archives, will be included in local museum exhibitions.
"We chose not to focus on military actions, map or political controversies, but to speak mainly of the sentiments of an ordinary man in the war. This is not necessarily a military man, a soldier. We look at various people: those who had to get evacuated, who lived in occupied areas, children, women", – the scientist explained.

Some of the stories told by local people were aired in the TV piece.