Participants of the partisan movement in Belarus – leaders of the BSSR and the USSR in the 1950s–1970s
About the project
The Participants of the Partisan Movement – Leaders of the BSSR and the USSR in the 1950s–1970s Project is a special rubric on the Archives of Belarus website, an internet resource of the archives and RM authorities and the state archives network in the Republic of Belarus.
Purposes
On the basis of documentary sources the Project aims to expand information available on the internet about the participants of the partisan movement in Belarus in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, who held key positions in the partisan movement and resistance activities and in the postwar period became leaders of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union (M.V. Zimyanin, V.I. Kozlov, V.Z. Korzh, V.E. Lobanok, K.T. Mazurov, P.M. Masherov, I.E. Polyakov, P.K. Ponomarenko, S.O. Pritytsky, F.A. Surganov).
Structure of the project
The online exhibition shows over 400 records and materials (their electronic copies) available from the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art, the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, and the Belarusian Research Center for Electronic Records.
The exhibition is structured in two levels:
– List of records, including their title, date, type, language and location
index. On the right are the links to view a full-size record. The records are
arranged mainly in chronological order.
– Electronic copies of records.
The exposition consists of 10 thematic sections, which provide biographical data and information on the combat, economic and social activities of the above listed persons.
More than a half of the exposition are photographs. On display are also over 50 audio- and video recordings (fragments from radio programs and documentary films). The rest of the exhibition are handwritten documents, typescripts and prints (in full text or fragments). There are many autographs. The documents are in Russian and Belarusian languages.
The offered material is not exhaustive and further research is possible on the subject to expand the online exhibition, in particular with the electronic copies of documents available from the personal collections.
General coordination of the project – Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus.
Main executor of the project, information contents, web design – Belarusian Research Center for Electronic Records.
Selection of archival sources and making of digital copies – Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings, National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art, Belarusian Research Center for Electronic Records
Notes
The use of the project materials requires a reference to the source of information – the Archives of Belarus Website and the individual archive in which a record is held. For other issues relating to the use of data posted on the website, please contact the respective archival institution (the contact information on the website page “Archives and records authorities and the state archives network”).
For comments and opinions on the project please email: ed@archives.gov.by