On the visit of 9th-grade students of Brest Gymnasium No.1 to the State Archives of the Brest Region

On January 29, 2025, as part of the «Archives for School» campaign, 9th-grade students of the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium No.1 of Brest named after the Defenders of the Brest Fortress» visited the State Archives of the Brest Region.

Employees of the Department for the Use and Publication of Documents told the children about the main areas of activity of the archives of the Republic of Belarus, how the state archive of the Brest Region was created and what documents it stores. The students were told in more detail about the documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War stored in the archive. During the lecture, the students were shown the film «On the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Brest from the Nazi Invaders», provided by the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents.

Then the students were given a tour of the archive with a visit to the archive storage and the laboratory for repair and restoration of archival documents.

1. Head of the Department of Use and Publication of Documents Galina Kalustova tells the students about the archive documents

2. During the lecture

3. Schoolchildren during the tour of the archive storage

4. In the laboratory for repair and restoration of archival documents