«Archives for School»: an excursion for students of the educational institution «Mogilev State College of Arts»

As part of the “Archives for School” campaign, the cooperation between the State Archives of the Mogilev Region and the educational institution “Mogilev State College of Arts” continues. This time the archive was visited by students majoring in Library Science and Bibliography with an introductory tour.

In the reading room, students got acquainted with the history of the archive, the specifics of the work of archivists, the composition of archival funds. The guys got acquainted with the collection of documents of the personal origin of Pyotr Alekseevich Lyarsky, in particular, with his diary of a partisan of the special regiment “13”. Acquaintance with such documents allows you to feel the brunt of the partisan everyday life of wartime.

The guests also visited the laboratory for digitization of archival documents, and also visited the archives, where they saw how documents are stored and their safety is ensured.