Influence of the Riga Peace Treaty on the fate of the Belarusian archives

The author investigated the history of development main provisions XI article Riga Peace Treaty, which regulated delimitation archives between contracting parties. They were extremely unfavourably formulated for Belarusian-Russian-Ukrainian side both because defeat Red Army in Polish-Soviet war, and internal problems that arose Russia, most important was uprising Kronstadt February – March 1921. This reveals role future first rector Belarusian State University V. I. Picheta, who worked as chief inspector Glavarchive RSFSR took part peace negotiations fall 1920 an expert. comes to conclusion course implementation treaty, suffered significant losses. explains so-called «archival sabotage» place, essence show Polish non-existent certain archival complexes subject transfer Poland under terms treaty.