Action «Archives-School»

On April 20, 2023, students of the 7th grade of secondary school No. 1 in Novogrudok became guests of the Zonal State Archive in Novogrudok.

Together with their class teacher, the guys visit the archive not for the first time.

In the reading room, schoolchildren got acquainted with the current documentary poster exhibition «Novogrudok post-war: restoration and development», the documents of which tell about the difficult period of the return to civilian life of the inhabitants of the Novogrudok region, the restoration of local industrial enterprises from the ruins, the development of agriculture, changes in healthcare, the restoration of the network school institutions.

The children were interested to know that on September 1, 1944, the first post-war training sessions began at their school, then the Belarusian secondary school No. 1 in Novogrudok. Students also studied the earliest documents of their school, which are stored in the archive. The children gladly flipped through the pages of the history of their institution, reflected in the post-war protocols of pedagogical councils, statistical reports, reports on the work of the school for the academic year.

At the end of the meeting, the schoolchildren expressed their gratitude to the archivists for the conversation, interesting documents, and promised to visit the state archive again.