On the holding of an event by the State Archive of the Brest Region as part of the pilot project «Young Archivist»

As part of the republican action «Archives for School» and the pilot project «Young Archivist», as well as in accordance with the work plan of the branch of the Department of History of Belarus and Political Science of the Educational Institution «Brest State University named after A.S.Pushkin» at the institution «State Archives of the Brest Region» for the 2023/2024 academic year. On April 3, 2024, a workshop was held for 3rd year students of the Faculty of History on the topic: «Microhistory in archival documents: the history of personalities, families , populated areas».

During the event, the director of the State Archive of the Brest Region A.G.Karapuzova spoke about the source study potential of documents stored in the archive for studying the history of families and settlements in different historical periods.

Students shared their experience of genealogical archival research in the National Historical Archive of Belarus.

At the end, Anna Karapuzova answered students’ questions and invited them to continue studying archival documents on their own in the archive reading room.

1. Opening speech by the Dean of the Faculty of History A.A. Savich

2. During the lecture

3. Director of the archive A.G.Karapuzova tells students about the composition of the documents stored in the archive