On April 27-29, Vitebsk hosted the VII International Scientific and Practical Conference «Actual Problems of Source Studies»

The conference was held on the basis of Vitebsk State University named after P.M.Masherov.

Employees of the State Archive of the Vitebsk region took an active part in it, who prepared reports on the following topics: «Memories of participants in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and eyewitnesses of military events stored in the State Archive of the Vitebsk region» (E.M.Bondareva) , «Materials of the First General Census of the Russian Empire in 1897 as a source of information about the population of the empire» (T.V.Buevich), «Libraries of religious buildings of the Vitebsk region in the early 1980s.» (Karpekin K.G.), «Documents of the Chemical Industry Department of the Vitebsk Provincial Council of National Economy as a source for the history of glucose-flow production in Vitebsk in 1918–1921» (Mysoedova S.N.).

The director of the archive T.M.Svistunov took part in the plenary session.