A virtual exhibition dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Minsk Teachers’ Institute is posted on the website of the National Historical Archive of Belarus

The National Historical Archive of Belarus has prepared and posted on the archive’s website a virtual exhibition «Minsk Teachers’ Institute: on the 110th anniversary of its foundation».

In 2024, it will be 110 years since the opening of the Minsk Teachers’ Institute, an institution that trained teachers for higher primary schools. In 1918, the teacher’s institute was transformed into the Minsk Pedagogical Institute, which is now known as the Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank.

The exhibition displays documents from 1910-1921, revealing the circumstances of the creation of this educational institution and the choice of its location, reflecting the personnel of teachers and students in different years, highlighting the process of evacuation of the institute in 1915 to Yaroslavl and its return to Minsk in the second half 1918.

The exhibition also included materials related to the personality of Vsevolod Ignatovsky, a famous Belarusian national figure, one of the first leaders of the institute.

The identification and selection of materials was carried out by Vladimir Denisov, a leading researcher at the Scientific Research Institute of Belarus.

You can get acquainted with the contents of the exhibition here.