The First World War in Belarus page was added to the site to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war

The First World War in Belarus page has been posted in the Subject Guides to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war.

The page consists of three sections:

• Background information on the war

• Online exhibition of WWI records and materials from the Belarusian archives

• Summary information on the published collections of WWI documents from the Belarusian archives

The exposition shows about a thousand records and published materials (textual documents, photographs, sound and video records) available from the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk, National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno, Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art, Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings, National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, Local State Archives in Molodechno, Belarusian Research Center for Electronic Records.