The «Archives for School» campaign for students of the educational institution «Belarusian State Order of the October Revolution and the Red Banner of Labor Agricultural Academy»

On March 4, 2025, as part of the «Archives for School» campaign and the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, the «State Archives of the Mogilev Region» institution took part in a curatorial hour for 1st-year students of the accounting faculty and 2nd-year students of the economics faculty of the educational institution «Belarusian State Order of the October Revolution and the Red Banner of Labor Agricultural Academy» in Gorki.

The leading archivist of the department of scientific use of documents and information Alexey Shvyryov acquainted the students with the history of archival work in the Mogilev region, the specifics of the work of archivists, and the archival funds of the institution.

Then the audience was presented with a presentation «The history of the partisan movement in the documents of personal origin funds». Students learned about the founders of the partisan movement and the most interesting documents from their personal collections.

At the end of the event, a documentary film «Partisan Republic» was shown, prepared by the institution «Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents» (Dzerzhinsk). The film contains unique footage of the daily life of partisan detachments and units, which remained behind the scenes for a long time.

During the curator’s hour, students were able to ask all the questions they were interested in.

1. Demonstration of the presentation «History of the Partisan Movement in Documents of Personal Origin Collections».

2. During a conversation with students.