«Archives to school»: excursion for students of the state educational institution «Buinichi Secondary School»

As part of the «Archives to School» campaign, on April 10, 2024, the institution «State Archive of the Mogilev Region» was visited by students of the state educational institution «Buinichi Secondary School».

In the reading room, employees of the department for the scientific use of documents and information introduced students to the history of archival work in the Mogilev region and the peculiarities of the work of archivists. Documents on the history of the Great Patriotic War and the genocide of the Belarusian people during the war were presented to students.

The schoolchildren were shown the documentary film «Liberation and Revival of the Mogilev Region», which was prepared by employees of the institution «Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents» (Dzerzhinsk) as part of the project «Open Film Archive. We brought this day closer as best we could», dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Republic of Belarus from the Nazi invaders.

Then the excursion continued to the laboratory for digitizing documents, where the children were clearly shown the process of digital processing of documents and the conditions for storing documents in archives.