Orsha State Archives employees at the opening of an exhibition of propaganda leaflets from the Great Patriotic War period, «A Feat on a Sheet of Paper»

On August 18, 2026, employees of the Zonal State Archives in Orsha, Natalia Senkovskaya and Yulia Gryadovka, attended the opening of an exhibition of propaganda leaflets from the Great Patriotic War period, «A Feat on a Sheet of Paper», at the K.S.Zaslonov Military History Museum. The exhibit featured documents from the collections of the Orsha History and Culture Museum Complex and was dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Orsha Party-Komsomol Underground Organization.

Also present at the event were representatives of the Orsha District Organization of the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans, the Orsha Centralized Library System, and members of the editorial board of the district newspaper, «Arshanskaya Gazeta».

The exhibition features underground press, frontline and partisan propaganda, authentic printed materials, documents, and propaganda leaflets from the Great Patriotic War, truly demonstrating how words, born from a sketch or printed on a scrap of paper in the underground, became a weapon against the enemy and bolstered the spirit of resistance during the difficult years of German occupation.

1-2. Yu.I.Gryadovka, first-category archivist of the Document Usage Department of the State Archives in Orsha, and N.E.Senkovskaya, head of the NAF Formation Department, at the exhibition opening at the K.S.Zaslonov Military History Museum, Hero of the Soviet Union.