2014 marks 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. Belarusian archivists make their contribution to the interpretation of this war’s events

2014 marks 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War.
The Belarusian Society of Archivists supports the actions taken by the Commission on Implementation of International Humanitarian Law at the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus chaired by the Justice Minister of Belarus V. G. Golovanov to mark a respect for the memory of Fatherland defenders and war victims and to draw the public’s attention to the war graves of the First World War in Belarus.

Belarusian archivists make their contribution to the interpretation of this war’s events. In 2010, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus together with the Academy of the Interior Ministry of Belarus and Austria’s Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences published a book entitled War Graves of the First World War in Belarus.

The National Historical Archives of Belarus is preparing a book of documents, Belarus in the First World War. 1914-1918, scheduled for publication in 2013-2014.

In addition, the National Historical Archives of Belarus submitted to the Minsk City Executive Committee the records that were used in the work on improving the former Communal cemetery of the WWI victims, opened in Minsk on 29 November 1914 at the initiative of the Alexander’s Wounded Committee “for reminding the future generations of the victims of the First European War”.