On the participation of employees of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus in the presentation of the exhibition «Feats and Fates of Partisans in Documents» as part of the «Unity Marathon» in Minsk

From January 20 to 26, 2025, in Minsk, as part of the social and cultural event «Unity Marathon», a traveling exhibition «Feats and Fates of Partisans in Documents» is presented. This is a joint project of the Publishing House «SB. Belarus Today», the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter – NARB) and the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents. The project tells the history of the partisan struggle through the prism of the biographies of its participants.

The exhibition is open in the Green City shopping center at the address: Pritytskogo Street, 156 (Kamennaya Gorka metro station).

Visitors to the exhibition study the presented documents and photographs with interest, ask questions, and use the opportunity to find information about their heroic ancestors in the database of the Internet portal «Partisans of Belarus». Currently, the Publishing House «SB. Belarus Today» together with NARB has digitized more than one and a half million pages of archival documents and placed 227 thousand names of participants in the partisan and underground movement and information about them in the database.

Throughout the week, NARB employees, including young specialists, have been participating in the presentation of the said project.

On January 20, the Head of the Publications Department U.A.Kolobaeva conducted excursions and presentations of the project for visitors to the event. Hundreds of schoolchildren from the capital are also visiting the exhibition these days.

1. The Head of the Publications Department of NARB U.A.Kolobaeva with visitors to the exhibition

2. Search for relatives-partisans by visitors to the exhibition

3. Search for relatives-partisans by visitors to the exhibition

4. The Head of the Publications Department of NARB U.A.Kolobaeva with visitors to the exhibition

5. The Head of the Publications Department of NARB U.A.Kolobaeva with visitors to the exhibition