On conducting a sightseeing tour in the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region»

On April 13, 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 8th grade students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 40».

The children were presented with documentary exhibitions prepared by the archive staff on the basis of archival documents: «Defense of Mogilev», «Partisan Memory», «Genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War».

During the tour, the students got an idea of the main areas of work of the archive, were able to learn how documents are received in the archive for storage, how the requests of citizens received by the archive are executed, how the storage of documents in the archive is organized, learned all about the types of scientific reference apparatus created by the archive about how archival information is searched.

The museum exposition «History of the Party Archive» was also presented for the children. At the end of the tour, the children enjoyed a short course in typing on a mechanical typewriter.