Pilot project «Young Archivist» in the zonal state archive in Kobrin

On October 31, 2024, as part of the pilot project «Young Archivist», the zonal state archive in Kobrin was visited by students of grade 9 «A» of Secondary School No.1 in Kobrin.

A practical lesson on the topic «Creating electronic catalog cards and maintaining electronic catalogs in the software module «Scientific reference apparatus» was held in the reading room.

Head of the department S.V.Zaruba told the students what the scientific reference apparatus system of the state archive is.

The children familiarized themselves with the inventories of cases, traditional and electronic catalogs, independently tried to create electronic cards of a systematic catalog and search for information using electronic catalogs.

The exhibition «Sign of Trouble – OST», exhibited in the foyer of the archive and prepared on the basis of documents stored in the archive, did not go unnoticed by schoolchildren. This exhibition is presented by generalized information about the victims of Nazi crimes; lists of names of Soviet citizens driven away for forced labor in Germany; statements of eyewitnesses about the deportation of fellow villagers to Germany; information about the number of people who returned from Germany, forcibly taken away by the invaders, in the Kobrin district.

In the photo: Pupils of the 9th «A» class of Secondary School No.1 in Kobrin during a practical lesson in the state archive