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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 08:22:44+00:00

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Hubert Steiner from the Austrian National Archives in Vienna pays a visit to Belarus on 15 - 20 January 2016. For 30 years he has conducted research into the history of Jewish families in the Second World War, the fates of individual persons, and has been studying and collecting documents relating to the concentration camp at Maly Trostenets. This was the largest death camp in Belarus and the occupied USSR, created in 1941 in the environs of Minsk. At Trostenets the Nazis killed civilians, prisoners of war from the USSR and citizens of Jewish nationality from Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria. As part of the research, H. Steiner wrote a number of articles on the work of the Austrian Historical Commission for Issues of Deportation of Vienna Jews to Belarus.
On 18 January 2016 at the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus the lists of Austrian Jews deported to Belarus in the Second World War were handed over to Belarusian side. The lists include nearly 10 000 family names.
Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of Belarus Vladimir Adamushko and Director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus Viktor Kurash took part and spoke at the event.
The book contains papers on issues related to archaeography, archival science, source studies, code and text science, history of government institutions. Publishes documents on the medieval, new and contemporary history of Belarus, reviews of archival holdings, and other materials. The book is designed for archivists, historians, local specialists and philologists.
Contains 220 terms related to the documentation of business processes and the exchange of documentation with the help of information technologies. These are based on the terminology used in legislative and technical normative acts of the Republic of Belarus and a number of international standards.
Cover the issues related to legal provision and organization of works in scientific and technical processing of records of government institutions performed by the state archival institutions on a paid basis. Describe the procedure of work planning, contractual agreements, acceptance of performed works, organization of accounting and reporting, etc.
On 29 December 2015 the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry held a board meeting to discuss the issues of handling inquiries from citizens and legal persons at the state archival institutions in the second half of 2015, the state of work quota measurement at the state archival institutions, the execution of legislation against corruption at the central archival institutions in 2015 and a number of other issues.
The department board noted that inquiries from citizens and legal entities have been handled in strict compliance with Belarusian legislation. The work of the archive institutions in this area in the reported period was directed at the timely and qualitative execution of inquiries and petitions. The Department for Archives and Records Management and the regional archives and records authorities execute permanent control over the observance of legislation in this sphere. No violations of legislation have been found.
The department board discussed and approved the draft Plan of Actions of the Department for 2016.
On 18-24 December 2015 the central state archives and institutions held annual meetings of employees to summarize the results of work in 2015 and to set up objectives for 2016. Attending the meetings were chiefs and division heads of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus.
In the meetings it was noted that all scheduled tasks in the main areas of archival activity have been fulfilled. In 2015 the central archival institutions performed activities under the Archives of Belarus 2011-2015 State Programme, conducted work in the protection and security of archival fonds, strengthening of archives logistics and resources basis, the formation and stocking of the National Archival Holdings of the Republic of Belarus, etc. An important area of archival activity was the provision of information services to customers, the use of archival records, the information provision of governmental institutions and local self-government, etc.
The participants also raised issues of development of the material and technical basis, increase of wages to archivists, etc.
On 17 December 2015 as part of the New Year charity action Our Children Deputy Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management O. Ledovskaya, Director of the Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Studies A. Rybakov and Deputy Director of the National Historical Archives of Belarus I. Kovganova visited the Social Pedagogical Centre of Smolevichi District and presented new year gifts to the centre’s inmates.
Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry V. Adamushko participated in the meeting of the heads of archival services of Belarus, Lithuania and Poland held on 2-4 December 2015 in Vilnius.
The meeting discussed the issues of cooperation between the archival institutions of Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. Special attention was put on the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the birth of M. Oginsky and the cooperation in safeguarding the world documentary heritage as part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
The meeting participants visited the Kaunas and Siauliai archives to learn the experience of the Lithuanian colleagues.
Director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus V. Kurash took part in the events.
22nd International Conference “Documentation in the Information Society: Problems of Standardization” was held on 18-19 November in Moscow, Russian Federation at the conference hall of the Russian State Archives of Socio-Political History.
The Conference was organized by the Eurasian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (EURASICA), the Federal Archival Agency of Russia, the All-Russian Research Institute of Documentation and Archival Science, with the participation of the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Russian Society of Historians and Archivists.
Participants at the conference were representatives from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. The Archival Service of Belarus was represented by Director of the Belarusian Research Institute of Documentation and Archival Science (BelNIIDAD) A. Rybakov.
The plenary session included seven reports. The work continued in two sections: Section 1 “Theoretical aspects of standardization in records management”; Section 2 “Practices of the development and use of standards”. The conference also included a round table “The professional standards and their influence on the training of specialists”. In all, over 40 reports were announced at the conference. A. Rybakov (member of the organizing committee) delivered a report “The creation, implementation and use of standards in the field of records management: Belarusian experience” (plenary session).
During the discussions the main focus was placed on the issues of standardization of records management processes in the conditions of electronic record keeping and harmonization of national standards with international standards.
An international scholarly conference, Theoretical and Practical Issues in Records Management and Archival Science: Retrospective View and Modern Development takes place in Minsk on 2-3 December 2015.
On 25 November 2015 the Central Academic Yakub Kolas Library hosted a presentation of books released by the State Archives of Minsk Region in 2015: a collection of documents and materials “The Religious Life in Minsk Region in 1918-1941” and a commemorative book “We Will Remember Them By Name…” about the patriots who provided medical assistance to partisan fighters in Minsk Region in the Second World War.
The presentation included an exhibition of documents “The Religious Life in Minsk Region in 1918-1941” prepared by the Archive’s staff together with the employees of the Central Academic Yakub Kolas Library, the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Among the speakers at the presentation were Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry V. Adamushko, Director of the State Archives of Minsk Region Yu. Romashko, Professor of the Department of Church History of Minsk Ecclesiastical Academy, Associate Professor of the Belarusian State University V. Teplova, Head of the Department of Church History of Minsk Ecclesiastical Academy A. Slesarev, Deputy Director of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War A. Galinskaya etc.
On behalf of the Muslim religious community in the Republic of Belarus the presentation was attended by Mufti Abu-Bekir Shabanovich.
On 19 November 2015 Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry V. Adamushko and Director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus V. Kurash participated in the round table on “The Reunion of the Belarusian People: Urgent Problems of Research and Education” organized by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

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