Documents of People’s Artist of Belarus Leonid Shchemelev arrived at BGAMLI

On February 6, 2024, the head of the department of archives of organizations and the formation of the NAF of the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art Maria Iosifovna Pyshinskaya and the leading archivist Natalya Pavlovna Prinko, after several months of fruitful negotiations, visited the widow of the People’s Artist of Belarus – Svetlana Nikolaevna Shchemeleva to accept part of the documents (certificates, congratulatory addresses, individual photographs and with famous figures of Belarus, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, with students, etc.) from the personal archive of the artist L.D.Shchemelev. During the meeting, Svetlana Nikolaevna spoke about family traditions, her husband’s personal life and creative path, and his habits.