Participation of the Director of the State Archives of the Grodno Region S.I. Miklashevich in the Round Table «Councils of Deputies – together we are stronger!»

As part of the preparation and celebration in 2024 of the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Grodno Regional Council of Deputies, on December 22, 2023, the director of the State Archives of the Grodno Region, Sergei Iosifovich Miklashevich, took part in the round table «Councils of Deputies – together we are stronger!», dedicated to the development of democracy in Grodno region. Also participating in the round table were representatives of the Grodno regional executive committee, chairmen of the Grodno city, district Councils of Deputies of the Grodno region, members of the Youth Parliament under the Grodno regional Council of Deputies, representatives of regional public organizations, media representatives of the Grodno region, teachers and students of the Faculty of History, Communication and Tourism. The event was held at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

In his speech, Sergei Iosifovich noted the historical significance of the activities of the regional Council of Working People’s Deputies in different time periods, emphasized the importance of the work that the archive carries out jointly with the Council of Deputies, about the documentary materials identified by employees stored in the archive, reflecting the history of the development of the regional Council of Working People’s Deputies . Employees of the Grodno State University noted that, together with the State Archive of the Grodno Region, large-scale work was carried out to identify documents covering the history of the activities of the first bodies of Soviet power in the territory of the Grodno region, as a result of which the collection «Grodno region in July-September 1920: power and society» was published. Documents and materials».

The event ended with the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Grodno State University named after Yanka Kupala and the Grodno Regional Council of Deputies and the approval of the Program for the Implementation of the project «Democracy in the Grodno Region: History and Modernity» for 2024.