International Archives Day: a tour of the Rechitsa State Archives for students of the Rechitsa District Gymnasium

On June 9, 2025, as part of the «Archives for School» campaign and events dedicated to International Archives Day, the Zonal State Archives in Rechitsa was visited by students of the «Erudite» summer camp of the State Educational Institution «Rechitsa District Gymnasium named after V.F.Margelov».

The archivists conducted a tour of their archive for the children. During their stay in the archive storage, the young guests learned about the types of archival documents and the conditions for their storage. A master class on stitching archival files was held for them in the department of work with archives of organizations, acquisition and office work.

In the reading room of the Rechitsa State Archives, the students got acquainted with publications from the scientific reference library of the archive and documents of the participants of the Great Patriotic War at the exhibitions in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory, and a demonstration of the documentary film of the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents «History of the Great Victory» took place. Each of the guests was given business cards with QR codes of the ZGA in Rechitsa, BGAKFFD and the site «Archives of Belarus».

1-2. Master class on stitching archival files

3-6. Leading archeographer of the ZGA in Rechitsa S.A.Zharnosenko presents to the students exhibitions of documents of veterans of the Great Patriotic War

7. Leading archeographer of the ZGA in Rechitsa S.A.Zharnosenko informs the students about the universities where they study to become archivists, and about the film «History of the Great Victory»

8-9. Students of the Rechitsa District Gymnasium named after V.F.Margelov with business cards containing QR codes of the ZGA in Rechitsa and the website «Archives of Belarus»

10. Students of the Rechitsa District Gymnasium named after V.F.Margelov in the ZGA in Rechitsa