{"id":1023473,"date":"2026-04-01T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1023473"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:15:24","slug":"the-zonal-state-archive-in-krichev-presents-a-virtual-exhibition-light-of-the-soul-and-strength-of-hands-portrait-of-women-rural-workers-of-the-krichev-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1023473","title":{"rendered":"The Zonal State Archive in Krichev presents a virtual exhibition, \u00abLight of the Soul and Strength of Hands: Portrait of Women Rural Workers of the Krichev Region\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Zonal State Archive in Krichev<\/strong> presents <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/virt_vyst\/zgakr_gbzh.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a virtual exhibition, <strong>\u00abLight of the Soul and Strength of Hands: Portrait of Women Rural Workers of the Krichev Region\u00bb<\/strong><\/a>, dedicated to <strong>the Year of the Belarusian Woman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Every era has its heroes and heroines. After the war, especially during the first post-war five-year plan, women became the main labor force in agriculture in the BSSR, comprising up to 80-90% of able-bodied collective farmers in 1944-1945. They replaced men who had gone to the front, mastering tractors, combines, and heavy manual labor, ensuring the revival of agriculture and the country&#8217;s food supply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1081551\" class=\"wp-image-1081551 alignnone size-full\" width=\"60%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zonal State Archive in Krichev presents a virtual exhibition, \u00abLight of the Soul and Strength of Hands: Portrait of Women Rural Workers of the Krichev Region\u00bb, dedicated to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sitenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023474,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023473\/revisions\/1023474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}