On holding the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference «Archival Dialogue. To the 100th anniversary of the First All-Belarusian Conference of Archivists»
On May 23, 2024, the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference «Archival Dialogue. To the 100th anniversary of the First All-Belarusian Conference of Archivists».
Deputy Director of the Department of Archives and Records Management A.E.Tsvetkov addressed those present with a welcoming speech, emphasizing the importance of holding such events, and also noted that archives are gradually evolving into scientific, cultural and educational centers.
Deputy Director of NARB E.A.Stukanova congratulated the conference participants and noted that such events allow them to exchange work experience, establish new contacts and areas of cooperation. Elena Aleksandrovna also presented a collection of materials from scientific events held by NARB in 2023, «Archive Diyalogue. Issue 2».
For active work in preparing the popular science publication «Archives. Nothing but the truth» A.E.Tsvetkov presented letters of gratitude from the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus to Deputy Director of NARB S.V.Kulinok and leading researcher of the Publications Department of NARB V.D.Selemenev.
The plenary session was moderated by Deputy Director of NARB S.V. Kulinok. Here were presentations by Professor of the Department of Source Studies of the BSU, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor M.F.Shumeiko («The Role of the 1st All-Belarusian Conference of Archivists in the Formation and Development of Archival Science, Archeography, Record Management») and a leading researcher at the Publications Department of the NARB, K.h.s. V.D.Selemeneva («On the issue of using documents of the former Central Archives in the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus»).
Representatives of the republican institutions (NARB, National Historical Archive of Belarus, National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno, Belarusian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art, Belarusian Research Institute of Documentation and Archival Science) took part in the conference in full-time/correspondence format affairs, Belarusian Research Center for Electronic Documentation) and regional (state archives of Vitebsk and Mogilev regions) archival institutions, higher educational institutions (Institute of Management Personnel of the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus, Belarusian State University, Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University, Minsk Regional Institute development of education, Polotsk State University named after Euphrosyne of Polotsk), National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Institute of History, Center for Research of Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature), Maxim Bogdanovich Literary Museum, National Library of Belarus. The international component of the event was presented by scientists from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the Center for the History of Russian Science and Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian State University for the Humanities. There were about 50 participants in total.
Further work of the conference was organized in four sections. The first section «Archival work in Belarus in the XX-XXI centuries: history, methodology, practice» presents reports by Deputy Director of NARB S.V.Kulinok («Publishing activities of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus: experience and prospects»); employees of the publications department: researchers T.N.Ageenko («Partarchs and cadres (1929-1941)»), N.E.Kalesnik («Belarusian National Commissariat: History of Fund No.4 of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus»), leading archivists Yu.N.Petukha («Materials of the 2nd All-Belarusian Conference of Archivists as a source on the history of the development of the system of local archives of the BSSR in the 1920s») and Ph.D. O.N.Borovskaya («Attempted investigations of the local archival collections from the BSSR from Poland at the 1st Belarusian Conference of Architectural Collectives»); Deputy Head of the Information Retrieval Systems Department V.Yu.Monzul («Stock Catalog of State Archives of the Republic of Belarus as a publicly accessible source of information: experience of use and prospects for further improvement»). T.N.Ageenko and O.N.Borovskaya acted as moderators of the section.
The second section was devoted to the source study potential of documents on the modern history of Belarus and the states of the post-Soviet space of the first half of the twentieth century. It featured reports by junior researcher of the publications department T.V.Petyukevich («The problem of the insecurity of the Garad population of the BSSR zhyllem u adlustravanni pravazdach myastsovykh kamunalnye addzelau (1921-1928)») and the head of the department of information retrieval systems O.Yu.Yurkevich («The importance of archival documents in historical and legal research in the context of the history of civil law of the BSSR in the 1919–1940s»).
The theme of the Great Patriotic War was of great importance in the work of the conference, especially on the eve of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders. The work of the third section, «The Great Patriotic War as Reflected by Historical Sources», was devoted to it, where leading experts, including from Russia, discussed numerous aspects of military history. Also presented here were reports by research associate of the publications department M.E.Tumash («Cipher telegrams as a historical source») and leading archivist of the department for the use of documents and information, Ph.D. V.P.Garmatny («Intelligence reports of the partisan brigade named after P.K.Ponomarenko as a source on the history of the Berezov region during the Nazi occupation»).
The fourth section, «Archival documents as a source for studying historical events (1944-2000s)», was attended by a researcher from the Department for the Use of Documents and Information, Ph.D. V.G.Mazets («Stan of automobile transport and road transport of the BSSR in another era of the 1940s – 1950s (past document of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus)»).
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| 1. Welcoming speech by the Deputy Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus A.E.Tsvetkov |
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| 2. Deputy Director of NARB E.A.Stukanova presents the collection «Archive Diyalog. Issue 2» |
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| 3. Deputy Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus A.E.Tsvetkov presents a letter of gratitude from the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus to Deputy Director of NARB S.V. Kulink |
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| 4. Deputy Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus A.E.Tsvetkov presents a letter of gratitude from the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus to the leading researcher of the publications department of NARB V.D.Selemenev |
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| 5. During the plenary session |
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| 6. Speech by Professor of the Department of Source Studies of BSU M.F.Shumeiko |
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| 7. During the speech of V.D. Selemenev, leading researcher of the Publications Department of NARB |
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| 8. Group photo of conference participants |
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| 9. During the operation of the first section |
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| 10. During operation of the second section |
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| 11. During the operation of the third section |
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| 12. Leading archivist of the department for the scientific use of documents and information of the State Archives of the Mogilev Region A.V.Petukhov speaks during the fourth section |