Gomel archivists released a Guide to Holdings of State Archives of Public Organizations in Gomel Region

Gomel archivists released a Guide to Holdings of the State Archives of Public Organizations in Gomel Region.

The Guide contains data on the fonds of parties and public organisations held at the State Archives of Public Organizations of Gomel Region.

The compilers are N.V. Yakovtsova, the archive’s director and A.L. Fedorenko, chief of the information, records publication and scholarly use department.

The book includes descriptions for 3247 fonds with the end dates 1879-1880, 1898, 1901, 1917-1941, 1943-2010, including 22 fonds of public institutions and political parties of the Gomel region which were transferred to the Archives for permanent preservation during the period from 1993 to 2009.

The edition is intended for archivists, scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, regional specialists, and researchers into the history of Belarus.