«Archives for School»: a visit to the archive by students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 21 of Mogilev»

As part of the «Archives for School» campaign, an excursion was held at the «State Archive of the Mogilev Region» institution for schoolchildren of the state educational institution «Secondary School No.21 of Mogilev».

The head of the department for the scientific use of documents and information, O.V.Trotskaya, and the archivist of the 1st qualification category, A.I.Shvyryov, introduced the students to the history of the archive, the composition of archival funds, the specifics of the work of archivists and researchers in the reading room. They also got acquainted with the documents on the genocide of the civilian population during the Great Patriotic War, the recently published collection of documents «Without a statute of limitations. Mogilev Region», an exhibition at the stand «Mogilev Sisters of Khatyn», as well as ego-documents of the partisan participant and teacher Pyotr Alekseevich Lyarsky.

The archive staff showed the guests the equipment of the laboratory for digitizing archival documents.