Awareness Day at the National Archives

On October 21, 2022, an information day was held at the National Archives. With a lecture on the topic “Food security of the Republic of Belarus in the context of economic sanctions. Import substitution as a national project and a comprehensive strategy for the development of the economy” was delivered by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus Shagoiko Vadim Viktorovich.

In his speech, he spoke about the preliminary results of the current year’s harvesting campaign; measures taken by the country’s leadership to ensure food security at the present time; state policy in the field of import substitution and its features in the conditions of sanctions pressure. This topic aroused keen interest of the archive workers, the lecturer gave exhaustive answers to all the questions that arose.

Shagoiko Vadim Viktorovich was given a tour of the archive. The head of the department for the use of documents and information, M.A. Starostenko, prepared documentary materials on the history of agriculture in Belarus for review, and Vadim Viktorovich was presented with the publication of the National Archives “Restoration of Agriculture in 1943-1945: Doc. and materials”.