Documentary exhibition dedicated to the history of the formation of state symbols of the BSSR and the sovereign Republic of Belarus

On April 3, 2024, a meeting of the Republican Interdepartmental Coordination Council for Patriotic Education of the Population of the Republic of Belarus was held on the topic «Formation of respect for state symbols.» As part of this event, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus prepared an exhibition of archival documents dedicated to the history of the formation of state symbols of the BSSR and the sovereign Republic of Belarus.

The National Archives presented unique documents at the exhibition: minutes of meetings of the Council of People’s Commissars for 1926 and 1927. on approval of the draft coat of arms of the BSSR, Law of the Supreme Council of the BSSR on amendments and additions, adopted on July 26, 1938, description of the State Flag of the Belarusian SSR, technical conditions for the State Flag of the BSSR 1951, resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on the production and use of the image of the State Emblem of the Republic of Belarus dated August 7, 1995, Resolution of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on the draft Law of the Republic of Belarus «On State Symbols of the Republic of Belarus» dated June 16, 2004, draft Law of the Republic of Belarus «On State Symbols of the Republic of Belarus» dated July 5, 2004 G.

Head of the Department for the Use of Documents and Information M.A. Starostenko gave a tour of the exhibition for the event participants.

1. Head of the department M.A. Starostenko introduces the documents of the exhibition to the Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus – Igor Vladimirovich Lutsky, Assistant to the Minister of Defense for Ideological Work in the Armed Forces – Head of the Main Directorate of Ideological Work of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus Leonid Viktorovich Kasinsky

2. Exhibition of archival documents on the history of the formation of state symbols of the BSSR and the sovereign Republic of Belarus