Excursion for students of the educational institution «Mogilev State Special Vocational Technical School of Closed Type No.2 Woodworking»

On April 23, 2024, as part of the «Archives to School» campaign, students of the educational institution «Mogilev State Special Vocational School of Closed Type No.2 Woodworking» visited the institution «State Archive of the Mogilev Region».

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. They also got acquainted with the documents of the exhibition on the topic «Chernobyl is our pain».

The students 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 document digitization laboratory, where the process of digital document processing was clearly demonstrated to students. And at the end, they visited the archives, where they were able to find out the peculiarities of the conditions for storing documents.