Exhibition of records opens at the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus

On 2 April 2014 an exhibition of records was opened at the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders. The exposition was presented at the opening of the fourth session of the Upper Chamber of Belarusian Parliament of the 5th convocation.

The exhibition of records was prepared by the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings, with the participation of the Russian State Archives of Socio-Political History, and a number of Belarusian regional and local archives.

The director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry Mr. Vladimir Adamushko made a speech before the members of the Council of the Republic.

The Belarusian senators had been shown a 1944 documentary film “The Liberation of Soviet Belarus” available from the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings.