Meeting of the heads of archive services and state archival institutions of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, Grodno, Belarus

On 2-4 June 2015 a professional meeting was held in Grodno, Belarus, that included heads of archive services and state archival institutions of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. The delegation of Belarusian archivists was headed by Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus V. Adamushko, the Russian delegation by the Chief of the Federal Archival Agency of the Culture Ministry of the Russian Federation A. Artizov. Attendees at the meeting were representatives of the archive service of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The meeting discussed issues of providing archival services to citizens and juridical persons at the state archives of Russia and Belarus.

The event included a joint board meeting of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Republic of Belarus and the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation. The board meeting discussed issues of “Practices of the Belarusian and Russian archive services in making lists of records creating organizations, sources of records acquisition for the state archives in the Republic of Belarus and the federal archives in the Russian Federation” and “The plan of joint actions of the Department for Archives and Records Management of Belarus and the Federal Archival Agency of Russia for 2014-2016”.

During the meeting the participants acquainted with the work of the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno and the State Archives of Grodno Region.