On the visit of 9th-grade students of School No.20 of Brest to the State Archives of the Brest Region

On February 3, 2025, as part of the «Archives for School» campaign, 9th-grade students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.20 of Brest named after Hero of the Soviet Union D.M.Karbyshev» visited the State Archives of the Brest Region.

Employees of the Department for the Use and Publication of Documents introduced the children to the history of the State Archives of the Brest Region and told them about the composition of the documents stored there. The children were most interested in the documents testifying to the genocide of the population during the occupation.

At the end of 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.

During the introductory tour of the archive, the students also visited the archive storage facility and the laboratory for the repair and restoration of archival documents.

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

2. During the lecture

3. During the film screening

4. Archivist of the 2nd qualification category Natalia Yakuta tells the students about the conditions for storing archival documents

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