Meeting with students of school No. 90 and gymnasium No. 56 in Minsk at the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus

On March 30, 2023, as part of the «Archives for School» campaign, a meeting was held at the National Archives with students from school No.90 and gymnasium No.56 in Minsk.

Inessa Vladimirovna Dorogush, head of the department of funds of personal origin, conducted a tour of the archive, spoke about its history, composition and features of storing documents, and the work of the archive in the field of publication and exhibition activities. During the tour, students got acquainted with the photo-documentary exhibitions of the National Archives dedicated to the Year of Peace and Creation: «We, Belarusians are peaceful people…» and to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marat Fedorovich Yegorov, a public figure, chairman of the Belarusian Peace Foundation, president of the International Humanitarian Non-Governmental organization «Chernobyl-Help», Honored Worker of Culture of the BSSR, participant in the Great Patriotic War, as well as with the banner exhibition «Khatyn – a shrine of national memory», prepared by the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents and the State Archive of the Minsk Region, dedicated to the 80- anniversary of the tragedy of the Belarusian village of Khatyn, burned together with the inhabitants by the fascist invaders on March 22, 1943.

The students visited the archives of funds of personal origin, where they got acquainted with the documents of state and party leaders, scientists of Belarus and participants in the Great Patriotic War, as well as the archives of funds of partisan formations.