Exercising the information function of the Belarusian archives in 1920–1930s.

The article studies exercising the information function of the Belarusian archives in the context of discussions about the relationship of archives with libraries and museums that took place in 1918-1920, as well as politicization of archives that started in the late 1920s, and led to the restriction of access to the documents stored there. The initiative of the famous Russian historian-archivist I.L. Mayakovsky on the wide involvement of local historians in the archival building, about which he spoke at the First All-Russian Conference of Archival Activists in the autumn of 1921, was supported at the First All-Belarusian Conference of Archival Workers held in Minsk in May 1924 and at the Second Meeting of Archival Workers of Belarus (December 1927). A large role in that was played by former commissioners of the Glavarhiv of RSFSR on Mogilev and Vitebsk provinces D.I. Dovgyallo, B.R. Brezhgo and the first rector of the Belarusian State University, opened in the fall of 1922 in Minsk, V.I. Picheta, who also worked in the Glavarhiv of Russia. It is noted that, in contrast to Russia, the “People’s Commissariat of Education period” (1918–1920) in the history of the Belarusian archives is hardly traceable due to the peculiarities of national-state building in Belarus of that period (the occupation of its western regions by Poland, the inclusion of the Vitebsk and Mogilev provinces into RSFSR). Attention is drawn to the active participation of the Glavarhiv of Russia in providing organizational, methodological, personnel, financial support to the Belarusian archives. It is stated that the clauses of the decree “On the reorganization and centralization of archival work in RSFSR” approved on June 1, 1918, formed the basis for the “Regulations of the Central Archive of SSRB” adopted on September 12, 1922, which marked the creation of the State Archival Service of Belarus.

 

museums, libraries, First All-Belarusian Conference of Archival Workers, Second Meeting of Archival Workers of Belarus, Regulations of the Central Archive of SSRB, D.I. Dovgyallo, B.R. Brezhgo, E.F. Karsky, D.F. Zhilunovich, A.R. Iodko, I.L. Mayakovsky, V.I. Picheta, D.B. Ryazanov, M.N. Pokrovsky, S.F. Platonov

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