Photo documents from the collection of Nikolai Ivanovich Cherginets, transferred by him to the fund of the institution «Belarusian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents»

On October 17, the well-known Belarusian political and public figure, writer, honorary chairman of the Union of Writers of Belarus, People’s Writer of Belarus Nikolai Ivanovich Cherginets turns 85 years old.

Nikolai Ivanovich handed over a collection of photographic documents from his personal archive to the institution «Belarusian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents». On the eve of the anniversary of Nikolai Ivanovich, the scientific and technical processing of photographic documents from his collection was completed. 503 accounting units and 607 storage units were accepted for permanent storage.

Documents of the collection are represented by negatives. They reflect the state and social activities of N.I. Cherginets. Part of the collection is devoted to the formation and development of the Union State: the signing of the Charter of the Union of Belarus and Russia in Moscow, meetings of the commissions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, conferences of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. A significant part of the documents in the collection is dedicated to the first cosmonaut Yu.A. Gagarin, the cosmonaut’s family. Documents tell about the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Yu.A. Gagarin’s flight into space in the city of Gagarin, introduce the obelisk at the site of Yu.A. Gagarin’s death in the Kirzhachsky district of the Vladimir region; Museum of the Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yu.A. Gagarin in Star City. Documents devoted to Afghanistan are of great interest. The collection also includes views of more than twenty cities in twenty countries around the world.

On behalf of the administration and staff of the institution “Belarusian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents” we sincerely congratulate Nikolai Ivanovich on his anniversary! We wish you good health, cheerfulness and optimism, creative success, kindness and well-being. We express our gratitude to Nikolai Ivanovich for his contribution to the replenishment of the archive funds with documents.

Nikolai Ivanovich Cherginets (portrait)

During a meeting with the family of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin in the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Minsk; sitting: 5th from the left – mother Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, 4th from the left – sister Zoya Alekseevna Bruevich, 3rd from the left – brother Boris Alekseevich Gagarin, 2nd from the left – Aza, wife B.A. Gagarin, 1st from the left – Head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee, Major General Viktor Alekseevich Piskarev 1975, Minsk (Collector: Cherginets N.I.)

Meeting of representatives of the delegation of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU for relations with the communist parties of the capitalist countries, who arrived in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan on a friendly visit 1984-1987. Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Collector: Cherginets N.I.)

A group of participants in the signing of the Charter of the Union of Belarus and Russia in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow; in the first row: 3rd from the left – Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhenkov, 4th from the left – Minister of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States Aman Gumirovich Tuleev, 5th from the left – People’s Artist of the BSSR and the USSR Nikolai Nikolaevich Eremenko, 6th from left – Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov, 7th from left – Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Vladimir Vasilievich Rusakevich, 8th from left – People’s Artist of the BSSR and the USSR Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok, 9- th left – Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Vladimir Pavlovich Andreichenko; in the second row: 4th from the left – Rector of the Belarusian State University Alexander Vladislavovich Kozulin, 7th from the left – President of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Alexander Pavlovich Voitovich 23.05.1997 Moscow (Russia) (Collector: Cherginets N.I.)