On Victory Day events in the State Archives of the Brest Region
On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, the State Archives of the Brest Region organized a number of events as a tribute to the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland and the victims of the Great Patriotic War.
05.05.2025 young archive workers (all of them are members of the BRSM NGO) laid flowers at the memorial sign to the victims of the genocide «Tree of Life».
06.05.2025 the chairman of the primary trade union organization of the archive N.V.Yakuta and the archive employees visited the garrison cemetery of Brest, laid flowers at the mass graves of the Red Army soldiers and civilians who died during the Great Patriotic War, and honored their memory with a minute of silence.
On the same day, the archive workers visited the grave of Gleb Mikhailovich Norov, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, who worked in the archive in 1964-1987 as a senior custodian of the funds.
05/07/2025, a ceremonial meeting of the staff was held in the archive, timed to coincide with Victory Day. The director of the archive A.G.Karapuzova addressed the workers with a congratulatory speech. As part of the event, a presentation «Archivists-winners» was presented about the archive workers in different years – participants in the Great Patriotic War, and a documentary film «History of the Great Victory» prepared by the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents was shown.
05/07/2025, the director of the archive A.G.Karapuzova and young archive workers took part in the opening of the exhibition «We stood firm and won», prepared by the UK «Brest Regional Museum of Local History».
On Victory Day, the archive staff took part in a ceremonial procession to the Brest Hero Fortress Memorial Complex, in a rally dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, and laid flowers at the Eternal Flame.
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| 1. Young archive workers at the Tree of Life memorial sign |
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| 2-3. Laying flowers at the mass graves of Red Army soldiers and civilians who died during the Great Patriotic War at the garrison cemetery in Brest |
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| 4. During a visit to the grave of G.M. Norov, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a former archive employee |
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| 5. Speech by the archive director A.G. Karapuzova at a ceremonial meeting |
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| 6. Head of the Department of Use and Publication of Documents G.D.Kalustova talks about archivists – participants of the Great Patriotic War |
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| 7. The archive staff during the screening of the film «History of the Great Victory» |
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| 8. At the opening of the exhibition «We stood firm and won» in the UK «Brest Regional Museum of Local History» |
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| 9. In the memorial complex «Brest Hero Fortress» |
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| 10. Laying flowers at the Eternal Flame |