{"id":1025525,"date":"2026-09-18T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1025525"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:43:51","slug":"capturing-memory-and-unity-staff-of-the-belarusian-state-archive-of-film-photo-and-sound-documents-at-a-rally-on-dzerzhinskaya-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1025525","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Memory and Unity: Staff of the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents at a Rally on Dzerzhinskaya Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 17, Belarus marks one of its major state holidays: <strong>National Unity Day<\/strong>. The holiday commemorates a pivotal historical event\u2014the reunification of Western Belarus with the Byelorussian SSR in 1939. It was on this day that the Red Army launched a liberation campaign, restoring ancestral Belarusian territories\u2014which had become part of Poland under the 1921 Treaty of Riga\u2014to the unified state. National Unity Day stands as a symbol of historical justice and the consolidation of the Belarusian nation.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members from <strong>the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents<\/strong> participated in a regional event dedicated to National Unity Day. <strong>A motor rally and a rally<\/strong> brought together employees from enterprises and organizations across the Minsk region, as well as representatives of regional authorities, <strong>at Belarus\u2019s highest point \u2014 Dzerzhinskaya Mountain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The day\u2019s celebrations demonstrated societal unity and the preservation of historical values and the memory of the people&#8217;s past within the consciousness of the modern generation.<\/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\/09\/1-104.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087582\" class=\"wp-image-1087582 alignnone size-full\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>1. Staff of the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents at the regional rally dedicated to National Unity Day (left to right: Chief Curator of Holdings M.D.Romanova; Archivist in the Department of State Registration and Scientific Reference Systems A.G.Dubatovka; Lead Engineer in the Department of Automation and Information Technologies N.E.Manina).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-80.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087583\" class=\"wp-image-1087583 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>2. View of Dzerzhinskaya Mountain.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-57.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087584\" class=\"wp-image-1087584 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>3. Participants in the regional ceremonial event dedicated to National Unity Day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4-36.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087585\" class=\"wp-image-1087585 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>4. Participants in the motor rally.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087586\" class=\"wp-image-1087586 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>5. During the ceremonial event.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 17, Belarus marks one of its major state holidays: National Unity Day. The holiday commemorates a pivotal historical event\u2014the reunification of Western Belarus with the Byelorussian SSR in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025525"}],"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=1025525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025526,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025525\/revisions\/1025526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}