The Belarusian newspapers, founded in the years of change and the construction of a new state, are now considered as annals of the life of the people and valuable primary sources, allowing to read the story without spaces.
You can now find out without leaving your PC the information on what the Belarusian newspapers were a hundred years ago, and what they have written about. The multimedia edition "Becoming Belarusian Dzarzhnasti: pa the old Belarusian newspapers 1917–1922", which have united the newspapers of that time, became the result of the joint project of the National Library and the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus. Instead of large files, there are two DVDs containing electronic copies of about 2400 issues of newspapers published in the territory of modern Belarus or in cities of historical importance for the country - Vilna, Vitebsk, Grodno, Mogilev, Minsk, Moscow, Orsha, Smolensk and other.
To know more about the chronicle of historical events of 1917–1922 and the content of a multimedia publication is available in the "Virtual Exhibitions" section.
The article is provided by the Information and Analytic Activity Department.
