Visiting archivists

On the eve of the International Day of Archives, as part of the Republican campaign «Archives for School» on June 8, 2023, students of the school camps of the Secondary School No. 1 in Polotsk and the Secondary School No. 10 named after V.M. Azin in Polotsk became guests of the State Archives in Polotsk.

Head of the Department for the Use and Publication of Documents Dichkevich M.M. told about the history of creation and about the main activities of the archive. The children learned how documents are received in the archive for storage, how a quick search for an archival document in archives among hundreds of thousands of documents is ensured, their safety and use.

Schoolchildren were genuinely interested in cards for receiving food rations, extracts from registers of births, copies of graduation certificates, photographs of the city of Polotsk in different years.

For schoolchildren, a sightseeing tour of the archives and watching a video of the BGAKFFD «When the summer was without mobile phones. In the public domain».