First Conference of National Archives of Slavic Countries on the First World War, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The First Scholarly Conference of National State Archives of Slavic Countries dedicated to the events of the First World War took place on 24-26 September 2015 in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia. The conference was held under the aegis of the Forum of Slavic Cultures and the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia.

Director of the National Historical Archives of Belarus D. Yatsevich delivered a report on the topic, The First World War in the documents of the National Historical Archives of Belarus.

The Forum of Slavic Cultures is an international organization that unites representatives of culture, education, archives and science from the Slavic-speaking countries. The Forum’s headquarters are in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Full members or observers at the Forum are representatives from 13 Slavic countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Croatia, Montenegro and Czechia.

The conference program included the presentation of the book of documents “Belarus in the First World War”, which was prepared by the National Historical Archives of Belarus on the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.