The Belarusian Archives and Records Management Journal celebrates 10 Years
The first issue of the Belarusian Archives and Records Management Journal (‘Arhivy i deloproizvodstvo’) was released on 5 March 1999. During ten years 60 issues were published. The total circulation reached 137 206 copies.
The number of subscribers increased by four times and the annual circulation, over three times. Nearly 1 500 publications were placed in the pages of the journal. The authors were 220 specialists in various fields from 23 towns in Belarus (Brest, Ivanovo, Pinsk, Vitebsk, Orsha, Polotsk, Postavy, Rossony, Tolochin, Gomel, Zhlobin, Narovlia, Rechitsa, Grodno, Vasilishki, Minsk, Borisov, Dzerzhinsk, Zaslavl, Molodechno, Slutsk, Stankovo, Mogilev), as well as their colleagues from Briansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow (Russia), Astana (Kazakhstan), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), and Bern (Switzerland).
During this time the leading specialists in the field answered 248 questions from readers relating to archives and records management.
Among the journal authors are the leading experts and professionals in archives and records management in Belarus. These are Emma N. Davydova, Andrei E. Rybakov, Marina M. Elinskaia, Tatiana I. Sedliarevich, Mikhail F. Shumeiko, Sergei V. Zhumar, Viacheslav V. Nosevich, Andrei N. Sukach, Tatian V. Kekeleva (Minsk), Elena M. Bondareva (Vitebsk), Natalia Yu. Abramova (Gomel), Galina A. Dudareva (Zhlobin), Evgeny N. Zhebrun (Grodno) and many more.
The journal illustrates the main activities and the most interesting events in the field of archives and records management being held in Belarus and elsewhere. During ten years the readers together with the journal authors “visited” 29 cities in 16 countries, where various important events—congresses, conferences, symposiums, workshops, presentations etc.—were held and which were covered in the pages of the journal. The readers “participated” in three congresses of the International Council on Archives—in Seville in 2004, in Vienna in 2004, and in Cuala Lumpur in 2008. Also, the journal featured the events held in Briansk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Smolensk (Russia), Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev, Lvov and Truskavets (Ukraine), Bialystok, Warsaw, Pultusk, Szczecin and Elblong (Poland), Berlin and Koblenz (Germany), as well as Graz (Austria), Budapest (Hungary), Triest (Italy), Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Astana (Kazakhstan), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Washington (USA), Prague (Czechia), and Bern (Switzerland).