Members of the Pichota student group “Memory and Glory” visited the State Archives of Minsk Region as part of the national project “Archives: Memory of the Past for the Future”

On 16 June 2022, the State Archives of Minsk Region was visited by the members of the Pichota student group “Memory and Glory” within the framework of the national project “Archives: Memory of the Past for the Future”.

The republic-level project “Archives: Memory of the Past for the Future” was initiated by the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus together with the Belarusian Republican Youth Union and timed to the Year of Historical Memory and the 100th anniversary of Belarusian Archival Service.

As part of the project, in the reading room of the State Archives of Minsk Region the students examined archival documents on the history of student construction teams of the past years. They also identified documents on the participation of construction teams in the construction and reconstruction of memorial complexes, monuments and obelisks honouring the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.