No one will doubt important role archives, because they are repositories of history, our past, invaluable experience in the development and formation of the country. By the Decree of the Great Reformer Peter I in 1720 on March 10, according to the new style, the archives were opened in all state institutions. At the same time, the position of an actuary (now an archivist) appeared, who was ordered to "diligently collect letters, repair the registers, and re-mark the sheets." in Russia 2017 will be celebrated for the 297th time, in just 3 years the employees of the Russian archival service will celebrate their 300th anniversary.
Holiday Archives Day 2017
In Russia, each large enterprise there is a small archive that stores documents and business correspondence production-related. In any city and village there are also repositories of historical events, which can be used to track changes in the names of streets, enterprises, cultural objects, educational institutions - in one word, the whole historical process given settlement... One can imagine how large the detachment of archivers is, whose professional holiday falls on March 10th. V large cities and regional centers On Archives Day 2017, events take on a wide scale - conferences are held where archive workers share their experiences, raise their concerns, and there are quite a few of them. In our time, when electronic technologies are actively developing, storing information in paper form is rapidly losing its relevance. Translation a large number digital documentation requires appropriate equipment and skills. The routine work of archivers is being replaced by a more progressive form of accounting. This question is especially relevant when it concerns valuable historical documents drawn up on paper. As you know, this material tends to deteriorate and decay, the ink fades and disappears over time. The employees of the archives, who are in charge of the ancient manuscripts, are responsible for their preservation and restoration, scanning the primary sources and keeping them in electronic form is incomparably more reliable. Therefore, today's archivists undergo retraining and improve their qualifications. To keep up with the times, they, in addition to professional knowledge, must:
- have the skills to work with various media;
- be able to use computers and other office equipment;
- using new technologies to digitize all available material.
But there are still archives in the country, where progress has not reached. It remains the responsibility of the support staff to ensure the proper storage conditions for the papers. It is necessary to monitor the temperature and humidity in the room, observe the measures fire safety, keep a careful record of all stored documentation.
Features of the profession of archive workers
The service associated with the storage of historical documents seems boring and monotonous only at first glance. In fact, most archivers are very educated people, their work is related to historical events and important documents. By virtue of their profession, they get to know unique facts, which took place many decades, if not centuries ago, because the historical past of the country is a fascinating material. Russian Day of Archives 2017 will be celebrated by people responsible for the preservation of the most important historical heritage all areas of science, technology, culture, education. The history of the Russian state, its military exploits, achievements of science and discoveries of world significance - all this is invaluable material for posterity. Thanks to the totality of information, you can get a complete and reliable picture of the country's development.
The profession of an archivist is within the power of attentive people with a good memory, and since the work is connected with people, you need to have the appropriate human qualities - tolerance, sociability, delicacy.
Ordinary citizens actively use the services of archives: someone needs to find the missing years for registration of pensions, someone compiles the genealogical tree of their family, and someone is looking for a street that has been renamed - all this information is carefully stored in the archives and is provided at the request of clients ... Scientific information is of undeniable value; from the archives, an inquisitive people recognize and restore ancient models of the first aircraft, models of sailboats or costumes of our ancestors, which are later exhibited in museums. The archives also store state secrets, access to which becomes possible after the expiration of time. V State Archives Russian Federation occupying two buildings - along Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 17 and Berezhkovskaya embankment, 26, there are about 7 million cases related to the history of Russia in the XIX-XXI centuries, many documents have access, they are being worked on reading rooms... Without archives, the restoration of historical moments is unthinkable, and the Archives Day celebrated on March 10 is a holiday of people whose work is so needed by the country. We congratulate them on their professional holiday and wish them further success in their work.
(2 votes, average: 5,00 out of 5)Conducting any activity requires the fixation of information related to it. It is contained in the documentation. If necessary, there is an appeal to the information on the media. There are institutions that collect and store data. A professional holiday is dedicated to her specialists.
When celebrate
Archives Day is celebrated in Russia annually on March 10. In 2019, it is held on this day for the 17th time. The event is unofficial, it has not yet been assigned to state level in the list memorable dates Russian Federation and is not a day off.
Who is celebrating
Everyone involved in the storage of documents takes part in the events. The Archive Workers Day is celebrated by teachers, students, graduates of specialized educational institutions. Among them are former and current employees of institutions, auxiliary personnel. Friends, acquaintances, relatives, close people join the celebrations.
History and traditions of the holiday
Widespread celebration began in Soviet times... Honoring specialists took place on June 1. They were dedicated to the creation in the USSR of an institution in charge of handling documents. After the collapse of the country, the tradition was preserved.
Archives Day in Russia does not yet have an official status, enshrined in a presidential decree. In the Russian Federation, it is customary to keep a record of the event since March 5, 2003. The Collegium of the Federal Archival Service held a meeting. It recorded the decision to hold annual celebrations on March 10 in relation to these specialists.
The date selected by the organization has symbolic meaning... It is timed to coincide with the adoption in 1720 by Peter the Great of the "General Regulations or Charter". The document ordered the formation of structures government controlled... Others important provision was the creation of archives at each institution of power and the appointment of an actuary. The duty of the position was to create or make entries in the acts and keep them.
Tradition unites for festive tables colleagues, relatives, friends. The participants of the event say congratulations to the heroes of the occasion, wishes of health and success. Toast filled with warm words ends with the clink of glasses. The bosses give gifts: postcards, souvenirs, rare books... Those present discuss the news, share their experience.
2019 Archives Day in Russia is marked with an award best employees certificates of honor, diplomas. On air funds mass media broadcasts dedicated to industry workers are broadcasted, in which they tell about large institutions, the history of their creation and existence.
About the profession
Specialists in this area are engaged in storage, documentation. It can be of historical, industrial, legal and other value. The duties of the employees of the archive include taking measures to prevent damage, theft, damage, counterfeiting of information carriers. They control the issue, keep a card index to speed up the search and handling of information.
V recent times many archivists carry out activities for the reservation and transfer of funds to foreign languages... Paper carriers are replaced or duplicated by electronic ones.
Career begins after the end of the profile educational institution or directly at the institution. The employee must have knowledge of how to handle documents. In some cases, he is allowed to work after a thorough inspection by the state security authorities. After that, a non-disclosure agreement is signed. The profession of an archivist does not belong to the category of prestigious, it is not associated with excessive physical and emotional stress.
Each country has data archives that show the development, improvement and formation of the state. To preserve, order, account, prevent disappearance important documents and archives appeared, which are carefully monitored by archivists.
History
The first State act in the history of Russia was signed in 1720 by Peter I on March 10, which later became the date of the choice of holding the holiday. The charter, signed by Peter I, laid the foundation for the beginning of public administration reforms and formed archives in state institutions.
The archival service was created to preserve and convey to future generations, both documentation and historical and cultural heritage Russia. The archives contain documents that ensure the national security of our country, its foreign policy work, the activities of all structures and the development of Russia in the cultural and historical spheres.
It is interesting:
- The first written documentation in our country began to appear even before the reign of Peter and was kept in monasteries. Only later they began to allocate separate premises for this.
- Documentary archives are constantly updated and supplemented with new files. The archive fund of the Russian Federation for 2008 consisted of over 609 million documents in various media, and the first of them date back to the 11th century.
- The Archive Fund of Russia is annually replenished by more than 1.7 million copies.
- The profession of an archivist began to be taught in Russia in 1878 at the St. Petersburg Archaeological Institute, but this profession appeared in ancient times.
- This profession was actively supported in the Byzantine Empire, where all documentation was kept in the palace.
Not so long ago, in their work, the employees of the archive used exclusively paper filing cabinets. However, now a lot of files are being translated both into electronic form and into foreign languages, for example, English. For achievement High Quality of work, the archivist must possess the knowledge and tricks of the profession, as well as be an expert in many areas - historical, legal, computer, etc.
Traditions
Archive Day is celebrated by every employee who stands up for the protection, orderliness and safety of all files important for history and the state. On this day, archivists receive congratulations from their superiors and colleagues, together with whom various educational conferences are organized. There are also thematic exhibitions and talks. The media provide an opportunity for everyone to get acquainted with the history of this profession and its subtleties. The best employees of the archives receive honorary diplomas and certificates on this day.
In addition to Russian Day archive, there is also the International Day of Archives, which once again underlines the importance of this profession.
Every year on March 10, Russia celebrates the "Archives Worker Day" - a professional holiday for all archivists. There is another holiday very similar to it - the Day of Archives, it does not have an official state status, but this does not lose its significance for people associated with this mysterious case! This article will focus on the "Archives Workers Day", on archives and everything connected with them in Russia.
Whom do we congratulate?
The archival clerk's work has some mysterious appeal. As if these people keep and possess some secret, they know what is inaccessible to thousands. To some extent, it is. Over the years of their painstaking and hard work, generation after generation, archivists have developed certain rules and main directions of their profession. Their duties include monitoring the impeccable safety of documents, collecting them in groups, sorting, selection for use for scientific purposes. Lorewalkers are sometimes called so. Indeed, many workers in this area become witnesses of history, they know a lot about the history of the formation of Russia as a state. Their work is outstanding, interesting, and sometimes very secret. Many of the old documents from the time of the tsars still have stamps marked "top secret"!
Archivists not only monitor the safety of papers, issue copies or certificates, but also take part in publishing projects. Archives staff can prepare interesting exhibitions from documentary materials, conduct lectures, excursions and special meetings. Often, publications of their authorship are published in the media, or employees can supply unique information to the press, becoming a source important information... This increases the interest of the audience in the study of the country's historical heritage.
Literally until the beginning of the nineties, archivists had only pens, papers and cardboard folders in everyday life. But the age of computers and global network The Internet has greatly influenced them professional activity: now archivists are actively using the scanner, printer, computer and other benefits of civilization. This makes it much easier and more convenient to maintain order in the archives. Therefore, it is also important for a modern archivist to be able to use all technologies, to competently approach work with technical aspects. In order to get the honorary position of archivist, you need to have a deep knowledge of history, jurisprudence and modern technology.
Archives in Russia
To date, the country's archives have collected information that has everything necessary to ensure state sovereignty, national security and foreign policy... These repositories of the most important papers play a significant role, allowing state structures to function smoothly, interact, giving seeds for the development of cultural and scientific spheres... It is worth noting that the archives are still being filled with new documents, their influx never stops and will not be able to while the creators of history are doing their own thing. The sum of the lengths of all the shelves of the Archive Fund of the Russian Federation in length can be about 8.5 thousand kilometers! And this is taking into account the fact that the stock is replenished annually by 1.7 million units. The oldest papers of the fund date back to the 11th century; the date of the last document on the archive shelf is most likely today. This is how the archives quickly connect the line of life: along long shelves from the past to the future.
History of the celebration of the Day of the Archival Worker
It all began only in 2002: on March 5, the collegium of the Federal Archival Service proposed to establish a professional holiday for all employees of archives in Russia. The date was not chosen by chance. That very day Russian emperor Peter. The first in 1720 signs the "General Regulations or Charter". This paper becomes one of the first state acts in the country. The essence of the document was to outline the foundations of the Russian state administration. One of the orders stated that the appearance of archives in every authority in the state should become a mandatory innovation. Then the central state institution was the General Regulations, which was supposed to keep a strict record of official papers and transfer all documents to the archive.
Thanks to the same decree of Peter 1, a new position appeared in the great power - the civil service of an actuary or archivist, that is archivist... Since great amount documents from all colleges that should have been kept forever or long summers were transferred to a single archive for the whole country. It functioned under the Foreign Affairs Board.
But it would be a mistake to think that before the reign of Peter the Great, archives did not exist at all. In fact, such organizations have been created since antiquity, almost all civilized peoples were their owners. The most active development of archiving, of course, took place during the reign of the emperors. The most important papers were kept in the imperial palace.
Like this! Even archives, the keepers of history, have their own history.
How to congratulate an archivist?
If a person has a rare luck in his life, and there is that mysterious archive worker among his acquaintances, it is imperative to congratulate him on his professional holiday on March 10! And if the archivist is also dear to your heart, you cannot do without a gift. There are some ideas!
The hero of the occasion is the smartest and most educated person, so the book will not be a gift the best option... Only if the congratulatory person is not sure exactly what it will be of interest to the archivist. Of course, a huge deluxe edition book on national history in an expensive beautiful binding may be perfect! But you shouldn't settle for less in terms of books, and the archivist may have plenty of such gifts.
An excellent choice would be elite or just your favorite chocolate or any other sweets. After all, sweets increase the amount of endorphin in the blood, affect the performance of the brain and simply cheer you up! A clever and well-read archives clerk should definitely like such a delicious gift for professional holiday... Something reminiscent of the activities of archivists in the recent past will be a wonderful souvenir. Search for photos on the Internet and use them to find similar items in a stationery store: it can be a fountain pen or an old-style documentary notebook or a retro folder for papers. Such a gift will be especially dear to the archivist, as it will allow him to feel the connection with the history of his own profession.
In general, on the day of the archivist, you can simply drink tea with a representative of this mysterious activity and ask him to tell something about his work. A lot of interesting and unique information can be gleaned from such table conversations. After all, not everyone manages to sit next to the keeper of history, which comes to life in his hands every day. Do not forget to say "Thank you" to the archivists who make a valuable contribution to the history of Russia.
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