About conducting an excursion for students of grades 4, 7 and 8 of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 4 of Mogilev»

On October 30, 2023, students of grades 4, 7, 8 of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.4 of Mogilev» visited the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region».

The excursion began from the reading room of the archive, where the children were met by the head of the department, Tatyana Shevchik, and the leading archivist, Svetlana Bryuzgina.

The archivists told the schoolchildren about why archives are needed, what archivists do, what role archives play in society and what archives exist in Belarus.

In the foyer of the archive, excursion participants were able to see exhibitions dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the Komsomol, the defense of the city of Mogilev, the partisan movement, and the history of the party archive. Among them are archival documents, photographs, albums, badges, medals, periodicals, and books.

The children also managed to visit the holy of holies of the archive – the storage of archival documents, where the head of the department, Svetlana Bartsuleva, told the children how paper rarities are stored.