Annual meeting of the heads of archive services and institutions in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine was held in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, 4-5 October 2011

On 4-5 October 2011, an annual three-party meeting of the heads of archive services and institutions in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine was held in Veliky Novgorod, Russia. The meeting discussed the issues relating to the use of records in archive institutions: normative and legal regulation and practice. Among the participants at the meeting was the Governor of Novgorod Province, S.G. Mitin.

The Belarusian delegation headed by the director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of Belarus V.I. Adamushko included the director of the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings V.V. Balandin, director of the National Historical Archives of Belarus A.K. Golubovich, director of the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art A.V. Zapartyko, director of the Belarusian State Archives of Scientific and Technical Documentation A.M. Zapartyko, director of the State Archives of Brest Region A.G. Karapuzova, alternate director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus N.K. Rudakovsky, director of the State Archives of Vitebsk Region T.M. Svistunova, and director of the Central Laboratory for Records Microphotocopying and Restoration I.V. Silin.

The Russian delegation was headed by the chief of the Federal Archival Agency of Russia A.N. Artizov; the Ukrainian delegation by the chairman of the State Archival Service of Ukraine O.P. Ginzburg.

At the plenary meeting among speakers from the Belarusian delegation who made reports on the issues of normative and legal regulation and practice in the use of archival records were the director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of Belarus V.I. Adamushko, alternate director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus N.K. Rudakovsky, director of the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art A.V. Zapartyko.

The chief of the Federal Archival Service of Russia A.N. Artizov and the director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of Belarus V.I. Adamushko held a working meeting.

Belarusian archivists acquainted with the work at the State Archives of the Contemporary History of Novgorod Region, visited the State Archives of Novgorod Region building under construction, historical monuments in Veliky Novgorod.

The next meeting of archivists from the three countries is expected to be held in 2012 in Ukraine.