Working meeting of the leadership of the Belarusian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, Natalya Borisovna Gagarina and Sergei Vasilyevich Sobolev

On Monday, November 28, a working meeting of an employee of the Memorial Museum named after A. Yu.A. Gagarin, niece of the pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin Natalya Borisovna Gagarina, press secretary of the International Public Organization «Brotherhood of Belarusians and Russians» Sergei Vasilyevich Sobolev and the archive management represented by director Andrei Nikolaevich Gonchar and deputy director Elena Mironovna Grinevich. During the conversation, issues of interaction and partnership regarding access and use for the purpose of popularization of archival documents, in particular, the collection of war correspondent V.I.Arkashev, were considered.

As an employee of the army newspaper «Destroy the Enemy», and then – the front-line newspaper «Krasnoarmeiskaya Pravda», Vasily Ivanovich Arkashev went through a military path from Minsk to Moscow and from Moscow to Koenigsberg. Moscow region, Smolensk region, Belarus, Prussia – these are the milestones of the journalist’s biography.

The fate of Vasily Ivanovich Arkashev is closely connected with the city of Gzhatsk in the Smolensk region of the Russian Federation: the archive funds contain unique photographs that capture both the battles for Gzhatsk in the summer of 1941 and its liberation in March 1943.

By the centenary of the liberation of the city from the Nazi invaders, in March 2023 it is planned to open a large-scale exhibition project in this city, in which the BGAKFFD will take part as a partner.