Conducting a sightseeing tour of the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region»

In the Year of Peace and Creation, as part of the «Archives to School» campaign and events dedicated to the Day of National Unity on September 20-21, 2023, the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region» was visited by students of grades 8-9 of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.33» Mogilev».

Leading archivist Svetlana Bryuzgina spoke about the defense of the city of Mogilev in July 1941, about the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War and introduced the children to documentary exhibitions prepared by the archive staff, based on archival documents on the topics: «Defense of Mogilev», «Partisan Memory» , «Genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War», «Tikhonov I.A. – a fund of personal origin, a participant in the Great Patriotic War».

The head of the department, Tatyana Shevchik, spoke about the history of the creation and the main activities of the archive. Also, as part of this event, students were given a sightseeing tour of the archive storage facility, during which the children became familiar with the composition of the stored documents and their storage regime.

During the excursion, students got acquainted with the exhibition on the history of the party archive.