Excursion and film lecture for students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.4 of Dzerzhinsk» and the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium of Dzerzhinsk»

June 13, 2023 was a rich and eventful day for archive workers. As part of the events dedicated to the Year of Peace and Creation, the «Archives to School» campaign and the International Week of Archives, employees of the Belarusian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents conducted an excursion for students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.4 of Dzerzhinsk» and 2 film lectures for students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium in Dzerzhinsk». The total number of visitors to the archive was about 80 people.

During the visit to the archive, the guests were able to get acquainted with the exhibition «The Difficult Path to Victory». The exhibition exposition unites 6 stands: «A country on fire», «Occupied childhood», «Temples under enemy gunpoint», «Partisan Republic», «Hard path to Victory», «Feat is immortal». Students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.4 of Dzerzhinsk» visited the departments of technical control, digitization of documents and laboratories for the restoration of documents.

In the reading room of the archive, students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 4 of Dzerzhinsk» and the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium of Dzerzhinsk» were told about archiving in the Republic of Belarus and the main milestones in the formation and development of the BGAKFFD, as well as students and teachers were able to get acquainted with printed materials of the archive, photographic equipment and various types of media for film, video and audio documents used in the past – cameras, video cassettes, gramophone records, magnetic tapes, positive and negative film.

The visit to the archive for students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 4 of Dzerzhinsk» ended with watching fragments of the film «Countdown. Belarusian space. Secret Topic» (2011), and for students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium of Dzerzhinsk» by watching two parts of the documentary «Liberation of Soviet Belarus» (1944).

1. Leading archivist of the department of state accounting and scientific reference apparatus O.F. Chernenko during an excursion for students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.4 in Dzerzhinsk» (June 13, 2023, Minsk region, BGAKFFD)

2. Pupils of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.4 of Dzerzhinsk» get acquainted with various types of carriers of film, video and audio documents during the excursion (June 13, 2023, Minsk region, BGAKFFD)

3. Teachers of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.4 of Dzerzhinsk» get acquainted with various types of carriers of film, video and audio documents during the excursion (June 13, 2023, Minsk region, BGAKFFD)

4. The archivist of the II qualification category of the technical control department T.D. Shishko introduces the students and teachers of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.4 of Dzerzhinsk» with the work of the department (June 13, 2023, Minsk region, BGAKFFD)

5. Pupils of the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium of Dzerzhinsk» get acquainted with various types of media for film, video and audio documents during a film lecture (June 13, 2023, Minsk region, BGAKFFD)

6. Pupils of the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium of Dzerzhinsk» get acquainted with various types of media for film, video and audio documents during a film lecture (June 13, 2023, Minsk region, BGAKFFD)