On the event «Open Day» in the institution «State Archives of the Gomel Region» within the framework of the republican campaign «Archives – to School»
On June 10, 2025, the «Open Day» was held in the State Archives of the Gomel Region for students of the Gomel Cadet School. Archive specialists organized an introductory tour of the archive and archive storage for the students. During the tour, the students learned a lot of interesting information about the documents stored in the archive. Svetlana Primakova, Head of the Department of Accounting and Preservation of Documents, spoke about how archival funds are replenished and preserved. In the archive laboratory, specialist Valentina Chekan clearly demonstrated how archival documents are restored.
In the reading room of the archive, Maya Vashchenko, Senior Researcher of the State Archives of the Gomel Region, held a presentation of the current exhibition «80 Years of Victory! Glory is Carved into Granite…». The exhibition contains documents perpetuating the memory of the fallen heroes of the Gomel region. Maya Vashchenko introduced the cadets to the fund of filtration files of citizens forcibly taken to forced labor in Germany. She told about how they were taken away, in what conditions Soviet citizens lived and worked in the territory of occupied Europe. And also about the return of citizens to their homeland after the liberation of the territory of Belarus by the Red Army troops. The students read with interest the autobiographies and examined the documents of the taken citizens, which were issued by the German authorities. They also told the stories of their relatives of the older generation who survived the war. Maya Vashchenko answered numerous questions from students about the events of the war years.
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| 1. Senior researcher of the State Archives of the Gomel Region M. Vashchenko talks about the filtration files of citizens forcibly taken to forced labor in Germany |
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| 2. Presentation of the exhibition «80 Years of Victory! Glory is carved into granite…» |
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| 3-5. Cadets examine documents from the war years |
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| 6. Head of the Department of Records and Preservation of Documents S.Primakova conducts a tour |