The delegation of Belarusian archivists paid a visit to the Republic of Poland

On 22-23 March 2018 the delegation of Belarusian archivists paid a visit to the Republic of Poland. The delegation was headed by Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus Victor Kourash.

Belarusian archivists took part in the events dedicated to the inscription of the Union of Lublin (1569) on the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register. Participants in the celebrations in Warsaw and Lublin included members of the Polish government led by Prime Minister P. Glinski and the heads of archival services and institutions of Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine.

The event included the exchange of digital copies of documents between the National Historical Archives of Belarus (NIAB) and the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw (AGAD). The NIAB Director D. Yatsevich handed to the Polish side digital copies of documents from the collection “Sobieski Archives at Olawa”. In his turn the AGAD Director H. Wejs handed to Belarusian archivists digital copies of documents from the collections “Doria-Dernalovich Archives”, “Fashcha Archives”, “Przezdziecki Archives”, “Prozorov and Elski Archives” and “Tyzenhaus Archives”.

The Belarusian delegation met with President of Lublin K. Zhuk and Director of the State Archives of Lublin P. Dymel to discuss the perspectives of the Belarusian-Polish cooperation in the archive business.