International round table on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Kim Borisovich Gelman-Vinogradov

On June 26, 2025, the International Round Table «Scientist – Innovator, Teacher, Warrior. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Kim Borisovich Gelman-Vinogradov» was held at the History Department of BSU.

Representatives of the History Department of BSU, the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian University (via videoconference), and the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Document Science and Archival Affairs (via videoconference) took part in the round table. The archival service of Belarus was represented at the round table by the director of BelNIIDAD A.E.Rybakov, employees of the institute S.E.Kupriyanov, I.V.Lyutarevich, A.A.Nedashkovskaya, director of BGAMLI E.A.Makarenko.

The participants of the scientific meeting were addressed with a welcoming speech by the Dean of the Faculty of History of BSU, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor A.G.Kokhanovsky, Acting Director of the Historical and Archival Institute, Dean of the Faculty of Archival Science and Records Management, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor F.G.Taratorkin, Head of the Department of Source Studies of the Faculty of History of BSU, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor S.N.Khodin.

The presentations of the participants at the Round Table were grouped into two thematic blocks.

Within the framework of the first block «Remembering K.B.Gelman-Vinogradov and his works» reports and speeches were presented devoted to the analysis of the scientific views of the scientist, as well as his business and personal qualities. Reports and speeches were presented by Associate Professor of the Department of Automated Systems of Document Support for Management of the IAI RSUH, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor V.F.Yankova, Head of the Department of History and Organization of Archival Affairs of the IAI RSUH, Doctor of Historical Sciences. (History, Professor T.I.Khorkhordina, Head of the Department of Automated Document Management Systems of the IAI RSUH, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor M.V.Larin, Director of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Document Management, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor P.A.Kyung, Research Fellow of the Scientific and Educational Center «Humanitarian Archive» of the RSUH Yu.I.Novoselskaya, Associate Professor of the Department of History and Organization of Archival Affairs of the IAI RSUH N.I.Khimina).

As part of the second block «Ideas of K.B.Gelman-Vinogradov in a Modern Refraction» reports and speeches were presented on current issues of documentation, archival science, source studies through the prism of the scientist’s views. Reports and speeches were presented by Professor of the Department of Source Studies of the Faculty of History of the Belarusian State University, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor M.F.Shumeiko, Director of the BelNIIDAD, Candidate of Historical Sciences. sciences, associate professor A.E.Rybakov, Deputy Director General for Scientific and Methodological Work of OOO DIMI-CENTER, Doctor of History Yu.Yu. Yumasheva, Associate Professor of the School of Historical Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Candidate of History, Associate Professor M.F.Rumyantseva, Senior Lecturer of the Russian University of Transport E.V.Bobrova, Associate Professor of the Department of Source Studies of the Faculty of History of BSU, Candidate of History, Associate Professor T.D.Gernovich.

Summing up, the participants of the Round Table noted the significance of the event and highly appreciated the level of its organization.

It was decided to prepare and publish abstracts of the reports and speeches of the participants as a separate block in the next issue of the Belarusian Archaeographic Yearbook.

Brief biographical information:

K.B.Gelman-Vinogradov was born in Gomel. From December 28, 1942, he participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded 12 combat medals, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. He ended the war with the rank of senior lieutenant. In 1950, he entered the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute, after graduating (with honors) he continued to work as a teacher at the institute. K. B. Gelman-Vinogradov is well known in the circles of historians, archivists and document scientists as a scientist who devoted almost half a century of his life to research, and a remarkable teacher who taught more than one generation of students and postgraduates at MGIAI-RSUH.

His doctoral dissertation on machine-readable documents, defended in 1984, served as a kind of harbinger of the formation of a new scientific direction in document science – the study of electronic documents. In recent years, the scientist successfully worked at VNIIDAD as a leading researcher in the department of document science and a member of the dissertation council. Studying the documents in the information technology key, the scientist came up with an extraordinary idea about their content and purpose, which he outlined in the article «Special Mission of Documents» (2007), which gave the title to a collection of his scientific works, published on the eve of the scientist’s 85th anniversary.

1. Dean of the Faculty of History of BSU, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor A.G.Kokhanovsky makes a welcoming speech

2. Participants of the round table during the speech of Russian colleagues

3. Russian colleagues took part in the work of the round table via videoconference