Journal’s content № 3 2022

S.V. Slivko. The Khabarovsk Trial of 1949 in Soviet and American Press Coverage.
The article is devoted to the reflection of the Khabarovsk trial over Japanese war criminals in the Soviet and American periodicals of 1949-1950. It identifies various approaches to the coverage of the Khabarovsk trial, examines the methods of forming public opinion about the trial, examines the information context, which includes materials about the trial of Japanese war criminals, analyzes the composition of publications and reveals the degree of their reliability in covering the process and its content.
Key words: Khabarovsk trial, World war II, Kwantung army, soviet press, american press.

A.V. Samokhin. Detachment № 100 and bacteriological warfare against the USSR: based on the materials of the Khabarovsk trial.
In the article, based on the materials of the trial that took place in december 1949, the author examines the activities of the detachment № 100 of the Kwantung army. There are practically no publications on this topic in Russian historiography. Nevertheless, the activities of this division of the Kwantung army in preparing for bacteriological warfare seem to be no less important than the activities of detachment № 731.
Key words: Khabarovsk trial, Japanese war criminals, bacteriological weapons, detachment № 100, «epizootic» detachments.

D.A. Lyakhov. Materials of the Khabarovsk trial 1949 in the funds of the State Archives of the Khabarovsk Territory.
The article examines unique documentary materials from the funds of the State Archives of the Khabarovsk Territory, dedicated to the Khabarovsk trial of 1949 over Japanese war criminals and related thems.
Key words: World war II, japanese war criminals, bacteriological weapons, Khabarovsk trial, archival documents.

T.V. Kirpichenko. Detachment № 731: Review of nonfiction and scientific literature.
The article introduces the literature on the end of World war II on the territory of the Soviet Far East, the defeat of the Kwantung army, the surrender of Japan and the 1949 trial that took place in Khabarovsk over Japanese war criminals who were developing bacteriological weapons.
Key words: World war II, Kwantung army — surrender, Khabarovsk trial of 1949, development of bacteriological weapons, japanese war criminals, detachment № 731.

A.N. Averina. The topic of the Khabarovsk trial in the museum space.
The article analyzes the practice of presenting events in the Far East in August 1945 in federal and regional museums of Russia, formulates the reasons for the absence of the topic «Khabarovsk process of 1949» in the modern museum space, identifies the problems of its museification, including psychological and pedagogical character.
Keywords: Khabarovsk process 1949, museum space, exposition.

L.V. Korneva. Detachment № 731 Crime Museum — Harbin’s Saddest Museum: impressions of a person and a museum expert.
The author of the article shares her impressions of her participation in the international Forum «Russian-Chinese red tourism and the repeated return of Russian immigrants and their descendants to their second homeland, Heilongjiang province» (october 2015), within which, under the program of «red tourism», a visit to the museum «Detachment 731» took place.
Key words: «red tourism», detachment № 731, Museum of evidence of the crimes of the Japanese invaders.

M.I. Romanova. The filmimage of the War in the Pacific ocean and problem of formation of the young generation historical memory about the Second world war.
The article is devoted to the problems of the formation of historical memory of the Second World War in the modern generation. These problems are largely determined by the fact that young people have lost communication with this event due to its remoteness in time. It is perceived as a mythologized and modernized image of historical memory. Cinema plays an important role in shaping this image. Using the example of films dedicated to the war in the Pacific, an attempt is made to show how cinema transforms the perception of the image of war in the minds of the younger generation.
Key words: the war in the Pacific, cinematography, the image of war, historical memory, mythologization, modernization.

A.P. Lavrentsov. Notes of a local historian.
The article reconstructs the history of Detachment № 731, reveals the circumstances of the preparation and conduct of trials in Tokyo and Khabarovsk, traces the fate of convicted and subsequently pardoned Japanese criminals, raises the question of the attitude of modern Japan to the development and testing of bacteriological weapons on people during the Second world war.
Key words: Khabarovsk trial, detachment № 731, bacteriological weapons.