Extended meeting of the Directorate at the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus

On January 15, 2024, an extended meeting of the archive directorate was held at the state institution «National Archives of the Republic of Belarus». The meeting was attended by the First Deputy Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus O.A. Ledovskaya.

In his report, the director of the archive, A.K. Demyanuk, summed up the work in all areas of the institution’s activities in the reporting year. Particular attention was paid to the issues of ensuring the safety of archival documents, strengthening the material and technical base of the archive, and personnel policy.

During the presentation, an assessment and recommendations for optimizing work were given to the heads of all departments. The decision of the archive directorate reflected the problems and ways to solve them, and set tasks for the structural divisions for the next year. The archive’s management expressed words of gratitude to the team for their fruitful and successful work.

Deputy Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus O.A. Ledovskaya gave a positive assessment of the work of the archive, while noting the need to focus on maintaining and improving the quality of the types of work performed by archivists in the coming year.

The meeting of the archive directorate ended with a ceremonial award ceremony for the employees.

The gratitude of the Department of Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus was announced:

1. Tatiana Aleksandrovna Gitskaya, leading archivist of the sector for working with documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War of the department for the use of documents and information, for conscientious work, great personal contribution to the preservation of historical and cultural heritage and the popularization of archival documents;

2. Dorogush Inessa Vladimirovna, head of the department of funds of personal origin, for conscientious performance of official duties, popularization of historical and archival heritage in exhibition activities and active participation in the republican action «Archives – School»;

3. Natalya Aleksandrovna Chertovich, deputy head of the department for ensuring the safety of documents and funds, for exemplary performance of official duties and significant contribution to ensuring the safety of historical and archival heritage.

For exemplary performance of official duties, initiative in work, active participation in the public life of the archive, the State Institution «National Archives of the Republic of Belarus» awarded the Certificate of Honor to:

1. Gusak Irina Grigorievna, head of the department of organizational and personnel work;

2. Svetlana Vladimirovna Poznyak, leading archivist of the sector for providing information services to users and popularizing documents of the department for the use of documents and information;

3. Davydova Ekaterina Andreevna, archivist of the II qualification category of the centralized accounting sector of the information retrieval systems department.

Gratitude from the State Institution «National Archive of the Republic of Belarus» was declared to:

1. Vilenchits Ksenia Yuryevna, leading archivist of the sector for working with users in the reading room of the archive of the department for the use of documents and information;

2. Garcia Prikhodko Leonard Valentin, archivist of the I qualification category of the scientific reference apparatus sector of the information retrieval systems department;

3. Tatyana Mikhailovna Krez, leading archivist of the sector for work with government organizations of the department of records management and formation of the National Archival Fund;

4. Lukina Ekaterina Andreevna, archivist of the document digitization sector of the department of automated archival technologies;

5. Igor Alfonsovich Trostyanko, technician for operation and repair of equipment of the chief engineer’s service.