On holding a lecture and excursion for students of the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium No. 5 named after. V.S. Korotkevich, Grodno» as part of the republican action «Archives for School» in the National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno

On March 5, 2024, a lecture was held at the National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno for 8th grade students of the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium No. 5 named after. V.S. Korotkevich, Grodno» about the history of the creation of the archive, the main directions of its activities and the composition of documents.

Visitors were given a sightseeing tour of the archive. In the exhibition hall of the archive, students got acquainted with poster exhibitions and exhibits from the «archivist’s corner of the 19th-20th centuries», in the scientific reference library they were presented with printed publications of the 17th-20th centuries, and in the archive storage they learned about the conditions for storing archival documents.

The children were especially interested in the process of restoring original archival documents in the laboratory for special document processing.