Career guidance events for students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 17 of Mogilev» and the Educational Institution «Mogilev State College of Arts» in the institution «State Archives of the Mogilev Region»

As part of the «Archives for School» campaign, on December 19, 2024, the institution «State Archives of the Mogilev Region» was visited by students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 17 of Mogilev» and the educational institution «Mogilev State College of Arts».

The staff of the Department of Scientific Use of Documents and Information introduced the students to the history of archival work in the Mogilev region, the specifics of the work of archivists, as well as the banner exhibition «Again, let’s look closer to the past», which is dedicated to the history of the city of Mogilev during the Great Patriotic War.

The children were shown the documentary film «Liberation», prepared by the institution «Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents» (Dzerzhinsk), dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Republic of Belarus from the Nazi invaders.

A career guidance conversation was also held with the students, during which the students were informed about what is needed to obtain the profession of an archivist, and about the educational institutions where training in this specialty is provided.

Then the excursion continued in the laboratory for digitizing documents, where the children were able to see the process of digital processing of archival files. The students also visited the archive storage, where they got acquainted with the composition of the stored documents, the conditions and mode of their storage.

1. Head of the Department of Scientific Use of Documents and Information Olga Trotskaya conducts a career guidance conversation with schoolchildren of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 17 of Mogilev».

2. Aleksey Shvyryov, 1st category archivist of the Department of Scientific Use of Documents and Information, presents the banner exhibition «Let’s Again Look Closer to the Past» to students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 17 of Mogilev».

3. Students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No. 17 of Mogilev» get acquainted with archival documents.

4. Students of the educational institution «Mogilev State College of Arts» work with archival documents in the archive reading room.

5. Olga Trotskaya, Head of the Department of Scientific Use of Documents and Information, demonstrates archival documents of students of the educational institution «Mogilev State College of Arts».

6. Students of the educational institution «Mogilev State College of Arts» look at the banner exhibition «Let’s Again Look Closer to the Past».