Conducting a sightseeing tour in the institution “State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region”

On April 3, 2023, in the Year of Peace and Creation, the “Archives to School” campaign, employees of the State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region conducted an excursion for students of the 6th and 7th grades of the State Educational Institution “Secondary School No. 45”.

The children were presented with documentary exhibitions prepared by the archive staff on the basis of archival documents. The archivists told about the participants of the Great Patriotic War, about the partisan movement in the territory of the Klichevsky region and about the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War based on materials from the archives.
Schoolchildren also had a sightseeing tour of the archive storage, during which they got acquainted with the activities of the archive for the preservation of documents, with the composition of the stored documents, and the mode of their storage.

The museum exposition “History of the Party Archive” was presented to the guests.

At the end of the tour, the children enjoyed a short course in typing on a mechanical typewriter.