Korovchenko Elena Valerievna got acquainted with the archival materials of the Belarusian prisoners of "ALZHIR"

On July 21, 2021, the scientist, editor of the site "Search for Ancestors" Korovchenko Elena Valerievna got acquainted with the archival materials of the Belarusian prisoners of "ALZHIR" from the fund of the museum "ALZHIR", transferred by the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev during an official visit to the capital in June 2017, the goal of which is to write a series of articles about women prisoners. During the work, the chief curator of the museum Yergeldinova Zhanar and specialist Mailibaeva Saya spoke about the collecting and research activities of the museum and handed over copies of archival documents of Elena Kuchinskaya-Starostenko (wife of the BSU rector Alexei Kuchinsky), Lidia Stashevskaya (wife of the writer Vasil Stashevsky), Elena Rydzevskaya (mother-in-law of the writer Petrus Brovka), Anna Lyutko (wife of the chairman of the Zhlobin district executive committee), Anastasia Lebedinskaya (wife of the deacon of the Azeran church) and Maria Zalesskaya (wife of the deputy people's commissar of the BSSR Alexander Zalessky).

Also in memory of the museum she was presented with collections of memoirs of the prisoners of "ALZHIR" and their descendants "ALJIR. Qorqinishti tustey ... Kak strashnyi son ..." and "Descendants Remember”, published by the staff of the memorial dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the museum and the 80th anniversary of the beginning of mass political repressions.

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