About the event dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Gomel from the Nazi invaders, organized on the basis of the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Gomel Region»

On November 15, 2023, as part of the republican action, the staff of the «State Archive of Public Associations of the Gomel Region» held an event with students of the 1st year of the «Gomel State Technical University named after P.O. Sukhoi» institution. The students were accompanied by the professor of the department of social, humanitarian and legal disciplines Elizarov Sergey Aleksandrovich.

Students got acquainted with the main directions of activity of the archive, with the composition and content of its funds, with the system of the created scientific reference apparatus.

They studied the most interesting documents from the pre-war and post-war period. The personal files of the members of the Gomel regiment of the people’s militia that defended Gomel in August 1941, the memories of the veterans of the Great Patriotic War who participated in the defense of Gomel, as well as the personal files of the Heroes of the Soviet Union were of particular interest to the children.

At the end of the event, the archivists answered numerous questions of the students and conducted a tour of the archives.