From the unrealized projects of archival and archaeographic publications to the current state of specialized periodicals in the Republic of Belarus

It is noted that in the absence of any archival service in Belarus until the autumn of 1922, its functions were performed by Belarusian State University (BGU) opened in October 1921. Rector V.I. Picheta, who was at the same time the head of the department of the General Archives Administration of the RSFSR, headed the Archival Commission at the Academic Center of the People’s Commissariat of Education of the BSSR and brought forward the issue of the need for founding an archival journal in Belarus. The second time, they returned to that idea in the early 1930s, thanks to the initiative of A.R. Iodko, the head of the archival service of Belarus. However, even then the planned quarterly “Arhiu Savetskay Belarusi” was not established either. It was only in the context of the changed socio-political situation in the USSR after 1956, that the Information Bulletin of the Archival Administration of the Internal Affairs Ministry of the BSSR (the Scientific Information Bulletin of the Archival Administration attached to the BSSR Council of Ministers) started appearing. In 1961, being a small-circulation departmental publication, the Bulletin stopped being published with the 12th issue. At the end of 1991, when Belarus gained a state sovereignty, the journal “Belaruskaya Minuushchyna”, one of the founders of which was the State Archives of the Republic of Belarus, began to appear in the republic. In 1993-1998, 29 issues came out. On its basis in 1999, the journal “Arhivy i Spravavodstva” was founded with a publication frequency of once every two months. The founder of the journal is the Department of Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus; it is published with the assistance of BelNIIDAD and BelNITsED. Significant scientific additions to the journal are the “Belaruski Arheagrafichny Shtogodnik” published since 2000 (23 issues have appeared) and the collection of scientific reports and articles “Arhivaryus” published since 2001 (20 issues have appeared). The first one is issued under the auspices of the Archaeographic Commission of the Department for Archives and Records Management, the second one is prepared by the NIAB. Since 2020, BGAMLI has been publishing the almanac “Autograph” (3 issues have been published). In conclusion, the article states that there is a significant archive-archaeographic base of periodicals and ongoing publications in the archival industry of Belarus, and they contribute to the improvement and development of archival science, archaeography, document management, as well as to the practical activities in the field of archiving and office work in the country

1. Khorkhordina, T.I. (2022), “1-st All-Russia Conference of Archives Workers: Development of archival thought and archival science”, in 1-ya Vserossiiskaya konferentsiya arkhivnykh deyatelei: razvitie arkhivovedcheskoi mysli i nauki ob arkhivakh // Dokument. Arkhiv. Informatsionnoe obshchestvo: Materialy V Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (k 100-letiyu 1-i Vserossiiskoi konferentsii arkhivnykh deyatelei). Moskva, RGGU, 13–14 oktyabrya [Document. Archives. Information community: Proceedings of the V International Scientific and Practical Conference (on the 100th anniversary of the 1-st All-Russia Conference of Archival Workers). Moscow, RSUH/RGGU, October 13–14]. Moscow: Termica, 2022. P. 40-49.

2. Matyash, I.B. (2002), “Achival periodicals”, Narysy istorii arkhivnoi sparavy v Ukraini [Sketches of the history of archives administration in Ukraine], Dim “KM Akademiya”, Kyiv, Ukraine, pp. 406–416.

3. Shumeiko, M.F. (2012), “The half-forgotten names. Ivan Nikitich Shabatin”, Arkhіvy і spravavodstva, no. 2, pp. 120–127.

4. Shumeiko, M.F. (2016), “Genesis and development of the Belarusian segment of the ‘Prosopographic Direction’”, in Teoreticheskie i prakticheskie problemy dokumentovedeniya i arkhivovedeniya: retrospektiva i sovremennost: materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Moskva, RGGU, 13–14 oktyabrya) [Theoretical and practical issues of documentation and archival science. Retrospective and the present time. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference (Minsk, December 2–3, 2015)], BelNIIDAD, Minsk, Belarus, pp. 55–64.

5. Shumeiko, M.F. (2019), “The role of the ‘Belaruski Arheagrafichny Shtogodnik’ in the development of archaeography in the Republic of Belarus”, Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 2013 god [Archaeographic yearbook, 2013], Nauka, Moscow, Russia, pp. 79–88.

6. Shumeiko, M.F. (2022), “From the Central Archives to the Department for Archives and Records Management. A century-long journey”, in Arkhivy v istorii – istoria v arkhivakh: (k 100-letiyu arkhivnoi sluzhby Belarusi): materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii [Archives in history – history in archives (on the 100th anniversary of the archival service of Belarus). Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference] (Minsk, October 6–7, 2022), Minsk, BelNIIDAD, рр. 3–13.