Students and teachers of the Lyceum of the Belarusian State University visited the State Archive of the Minsk Region

On November 15, 2023, students and teachers of the BSU Lyceum visited the State Archive of the Minsk Region as part of the «Archives – School» campaign, the pilot project «Young Archivist» and with the aim of improving the patriotic education of young people, forming an objective attitude of new generations of citizens to the historical past, perpetuating the memory of outstanding natives of the Belarusian land.

An overview tour was held for the guests, during which the children got acquainted with the history of the creation of the regional archive, the main directions of the institution’s activities.

Also, the employees of the department of use and publication of documents assisted the students in the research work on the study of the heritage of the Soviet statesman and party figure F.E. Dzerzhinsky. The children were provided with documents identified by archivists in the state archive: correspondence with relatives, memories of contemporaries, information about the perpetuation of the revolutionary’s memory.