The delegation of archivists from the Republic of Kazakhstan visited the Belarusian Film and Photo Archives

In August 2017 the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings (BGAKFFD) received a delegation of archivists from the Republic of Kazakhstan. The delegation included Ms. G.M. Karataeva, chief of academic information and finding aids at the Central State Archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Ms. A.N. Tutkysheva, chief of National Archival Fonds preservation at the State Archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

During the visit the both sides exchanged their photograph albums. The Kazakh side presented a photo album dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War “The Kazakhs at the fronts of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”, BGAKKFD – a photo album marking the 30th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant “Gomel Region. The life after the Chernobyl catastrophe”.

The guests got acquainted with photo and film records on the topic “The participation of Kazakhs in combat actions of the Red Army and partisan units in the Great Patriotic War”.

As a result of the visit, a collection of documents is scheduled for publication in 2018 in the Republic of Kazakhstan untitled “Kazakhs at the fronts of Great Patriotic War” with the use of documents from the Belarusian Film and Photo Archives and the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus.