Image of kindergarten children from Kindergarten No. 1 in the Korabelnyi District of Mykolaiv during the Third Soviet Famine. Children such as these starving in the famine were referred to as «пухлі діти», "chubby children" because of their distended abdomens.
In 1941, the building housed a military hospital. While retreating from the city, the fascists burned the building of the former male gymnasium along with other houses. All that remained of it - burnt brick walls - was transferred to the industrial technical school. Reconstruction work was completed in 1952.
A slideshow presentation celebrating the history and collections of the Scientific Library of Zaporizhzhia National University in celebration of the 120th anniversary of the library fund.