A ceremonial opening of the new building of the Local State Archives in Slutsk

A ceremonial opening of the new building of the Local State Archives in Slutsk (Minsk Region) took place on 7 November 2018.

The meeting was attended by Chairman of Minsk Region Executive Committee A. Isachenko, Deputy Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management O. Ledovskaya, Deputy Chairman of Slutsk District Executive Committee D. Korolyov and other honoured guests.

The construction of the new building has been completed on the sidelines of the investment program for Minsk Region. 2,8 million rubles have been spent. The total area of the building is 2 177 sq meters. The area of the archival repository has increased thrice and is now 660 sq meters expected to receive 440 000 storage files. The building is equipped with mobile shelves, modern systems of ventilation and video monitoring, burglar alarm, fire system, a miniature boiler. There is a reading room and an exhibition hall. A local computer network has been installed for work with the Standard Archive Automated Information System. The Archive has acquired new scanning and computer equipment.