A training lesson for 4th grade students was held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus

On April 28, 2023, as part of the events of the Republican campaign «Archives for School», a training lesson was held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus for 4th grade students of the 27th secondary school in Minsk. The visit of young visitors imposed additional responsibility on the archivists, as it set a task of particular importance – to convey to them the importance of preserving and using documents from different eras in the history of their native country.

During the lesson, Vladimir Denisov, Leading Researcher of the Department for the Use of Documents and Information, told the students about the specifics of archive collections, about different types of documents and about the circumstances of their creation. The lesson was accompanied by a demonstration of the originals of some documents that are stored in the archive. Particular attention was paid to the disclosure of their value, which is aimed at developing in students from an early age a sense of pride in their historical heritage.

The lesson aroused great interest among the students, who looked with great pleasure at the documentary monuments

of the history of Belarus demonstrated to them.