10/09/26 The section of the Pokrovsky parliamentary readings - the Interregional Forum of the VRNS - began its work. The first of them was held in the State Archive of the Ivanovo Regiontranslated

On October 9, 2026, in the State Archive of the Ivanovo Region, within the framework of the Pokrovsky Parliamentary Readings - the Interregional Forum of the World Russian People's Council “Preservation of the People: Faith, Family, Traditions”, the work of the section “The Importance of Genealogy in Family History. Drawing up a genealogy based on documents from the state archive." The organizers of the Intercession parliamentary readings are the World Russian People's Council, the Ivanovo Regional Duma and the Ivanovo Metropolis.

The section moderator, Chairman of the Ivanovo City Duma Alexander Stanislavovich Kuzmichev, Deputy of the Ivanovo Regional Duma, Chairman of the Budget Committee Irina Fedorovna Sidorina, Secretary of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Diocesan Administration Priest Georgy Vityazev addressed the participants with welcoming words. The opening speech was made by the director of the State Archive of the Ivanovo Region, candidate of historical sciences Alexander Mikhailovich Semenenko. The speakers were the chief archaeographer of the department of publication and use of documents of the State Budgetary Institution of the Ivanovo Region “State Archive of the Ivanovo Region”, Candidate of Historical Sciences Egor Sergeevich Butrin and the head of the department of teachers and...