On holding a lecture and excursion for students of retraining courses of the Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University

On March 28, 2023, as part of the Republican campaign «Archives for School» and the Year of Peace and Creation proclaimed in the Republic of Belarus, a lecture and an excursion were held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus for a group of students of the Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University who are undergoing retraining under the program «Personnel work at the enterprises of the agro-industrial complex».

As part of the event, Vladimir Denisov, a leading researcher at the Department for the Use of Documents and Information, told the guests about the history of archiving in the Belarusian lands and the history of the NIA of Belarus, about the composition and features of the institution’s funds, the possibilities of using the archive funds when studying family history, and also gave the audience a tour of archives, where he acquainted them with the conditions for storing the funds of the NIA of Belarus, samples of such documents as act books of judicial institutions of the 16th-18th centuries, registers of births, revision tales and cases of noble origin.

The exhibited archive materials aroused great interest among the audience, and they asked the archivists numerous questions.