The Archives of Belarus website is an information resource of the State Archives Service of the Republic of Belarus, which operates in the field of archives and records management throughout the country.
The State Archives Service of Belarus embraces the central, regional and local state archives, research institutions, technical laboratories, and the archival journal. The archive institutions are under the authority of the Department of Archives and Records Management at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus.
The website provides information on the state archive institutions and their services and the materials relating to records management and archival science. There is information on genealogy, archival editing, legislation, and professional training.
The basic orientation for research across multiple records of the National Archival Holdings of Belarus is provided through the variety of archival directories.
A considerable part of the website materials are the subject
guides on various aspects of the history and culture of Belarus. The guides contain
background information on the research topics, lists and online exhibitions of archive
records, descriptions of archive editions. The selected topics include the Great Patriotic
War (World War Two in the Soviet Union 1941-1945), Culture of Belarus (the architecture of
churches, castles, palaces, the architectural ensemble of Independence Avenue in Minsk
etc.), Famous People of Belarus (Ignańy Domeyko, Napoleon Orda, Vintsent
Dunin-Martsinkevich, Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Maksim Bogdanovich, Boris Kit, Vladimir
Korotkevich).
A separate piece of information are the materials of the UNESCO Project "Documentary
Heritage of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", which describe the archival holdings
and manuscript collections of the Commonwealth in archives and libraries across many
European countries (Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, Germany, Austria, France,
Sweden, Finland).
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