On March 16, 2023, the institution «Zonal State Archive in Novogrudok» was visited by students of secondary school No. 4 in Novogrudok

The meeting with schoolchildren took place in the form of a lesson on the topic «Post-war Novogrudok Region: Restoration and Development» using archival documents presented at a poster documentary exhibition in the reading room of the state archive. The children learned how industry was restored in the region in the first post-war five-year plan, agriculture developed, what changes healthcare, education, culture underwent, and it was in those years that the foundation was laid for the economic development of the city and the region in the future. At the end of the lesson, A.S. Zabelinskaya showed the students the earliest documents stored in the archive, and also answered the students’ questions.

The children also took part with great pleasure in a sightseeing tour of the archive with a visit to the storage facilities, the library, and the document processing room.