BelNIIDAD issued new editions

BelNIIDAD (Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Studies) has issued the Album of Forms of Organizational Administrative Documents with Commentaries (based on the unified forms in the Unified Administrative Records System).

The Album offers examples in the Belarusian language for making records based on the single administrative forms in the Unified Administrative Records System (USORD), adopted by order of the director at the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus dated 14.05.2007 № 25 (with alterations and amendments of 24.03.2008 № 16).


BelNIIDAD reissued the Instruction on Recordkeeping in Government Institutions and other Organizations.

The Instruction establishes the rules for recordkeeping in various institutions in the Republic of Belarus, defines the procedures for records preparation, creation, acception, registration, control, storage and maintenance by both traditional and automation means. This also includes registration forms (registration and control cards, file plans, file inventories etc.), other documents needed in records management.

The edition includes alterations and amendments made by resolutions of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus of 24.10.2011 № 235 and 27.01.2012 № 18.


BelNIIDAD issued the Methodical Recommendations for the Publication of Polish-Language Documents on the History of Belarus in the 16th to the first half of the 19th centuries.

The edition formulates the basic principles and methods for the publication of manuscript sources in the Polish language, created in the Belarusian lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire in the 16th through the first half of 19th centuries.