Heads of archive services and institutions of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine held annual meeting 29-30 May, Uzhgorod, Ukraine

On 29-30 May 2012 the heads of the archive services and institutions of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine held an annual three-party meeting in Uzhgorod, Ukraine. The event dealt with the issues of regional archives and included an international conference “The state, problems and perspectives of regional archives”. The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional Administration A. Ledida.

The Belarusian delegation was headed by the director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus V. Adamushko. Among the delegation were the director of the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings V. Balandin, director of the Slutsk Local State Archives I. Borodina, director of the Belarusian State Archives Museum of Literature and Art A. Zapartyko, director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus N. Rudakovsky, director of the Belarusian Research Institute of Documentation and Archival Science A. Rybakov, director of the State Archives of Grodno Region L. Yunina.

The delegation of the Russian archivists was headed by the chief of the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarkhiv) A. Artizov; the Ukrainian delegation by the chairman of the State Archival Service of Ukraine (Ukrgosarkhiv) O. Ginzburg.

Among the speakers at the international conference from the Belarusian side who delivered reports on issues of regional archives were the director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus V. Adamushko, director of the State Archives of Grodno Region L. Yunina, director of the Orsha Local State Archive T. Loiko.

Within the frames of the three-side meeting the Belarusian delegation took an active part in discussions on the issues of archival business.

The director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus V. Adamushko had a working meeting with the Rosarkhiv chief A. Artizov and the Ukrgosarkhiv chief O. Ginzburg.

The Belarusian archivists acquainted with the work of the State Archives of Transcarpathian Region, the Ukrainian Central State Archives Museum of Literature and Art, visited the historic and memorable places in Uzhgorod and Transcarpathian Region.

The next meeting between the archivists of the three countries is to be held in 2013 in Belarus.