Graduation qualification work P.А. Pestravskaya is devoted to an important topic - children's diaries of the Great Patriotic War. 	Various aspects of the history of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) traditionally attract the attention of researchers. In Soviet historiography, the course of military action was studied in detail, a considerable amount of material was collected that pertained to the life of both the participants in the battles and the workers of the rear. 	At the same time, it was the events of the world war that caused a large number of falsifications. In assessing the Great Patriotic War, priorities changed both in the scientific literature and in the works of art. Events began to be submitted linearly, biased, without versatility, which is present in any life situation. 	An impartial assessment of the events of war is possible only in the memories of witnesses, the participants themselves, who because of their age, social status and other things written about the incident from different sides, do it with varying degrees of emotion, awareness, and so on. 	In this regard, the memories of children of the war period are highlighted. To help contemporaries make up their own opinion about the events of the Great Patriotic War and was written by P.A. Pestravskaya submitted work. 	Graduation qualification work P.А. Pestravskoy consists of an introduction (in which the actuality, novelty, object of study, explains the chronological and territorial her box, present historiographical analysis and set out source base), and two chapters of «The motives keeping diaries» and «Thematic analysis and comparison of children's diaries of wartime» (which on the material of the two published sources - «Children's book war - Diaries 1941-1945» (Moscow, 2015) and «Life in the occupation of Gatchina Pushkin Estonia Diary Lyusi Hordikaynen» (St. Petersburg, 2006) and the material. Personal archive Julia Alexandrovna Krivulina (. Ur Hordikaynen), St. Petersburg (1922-2012), 504 U xp) analyzed the themes of children's diaries; compared children's wartime diaries, whose authors were Lucy Hordikaynen, Galya Zimnitskaya, Zoe Khabarova, Roman Kravchenko, Berezhnaya, Anya Aratskiy Volodya Chivilikhin and Vladik Berdnikov; Compared the described events in terms of the territorial location of the authors of diaries and the location of German invaders in the territories of the Soviet Union; The susceptibility of children's memory to the events of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) is characterized; Individual characteristics of children's perception of the events that occurred depending on the age and the environment were elucidated. In conclusion, the author came to significant conclusions. 	Final qualifying work to write good scientific language, yet it is not without publicistic that best conveys the event of war, seen through the eyes of children and adolescents. 	It is necessary to note the Appendix to the work. This is the text of the interview (which is of great importance for solving the research problems) with S.A. Nuridzhanova, sister of Yu.A. Krivulina, held December 8, 2016 in St. Petersburg. 	Graduation qualification work P.А. Pestravskaya meets all the requirements for such works, can be recommended for protection and deserves the highest appreciation    O.B. Vakhromeeva