Students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 11 of Vitebsk» visited the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region with an excursion

On February 2, as part of the «Archives for School» campaign and events dedicated to the Year of Peace and Creation, an excursion was held at the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region for 8th grade students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 11 of Vitebsk».

Elena Bondareva, head of the IPS department, spoke about the role of archival institutions in the preservation of documentary heritage, the work of archivists to confirm the facts of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War. Archival documents, reminiscences of young eyewitnesses of military events, aroused great interest among those present.

During the tour of the archives, which was conducted by the chief custodian of the funds Konstantin Karpekin, the students got acquainted with the conditions and composition of the documents stored in the archive.