Valuable historical materials will be digitized in Yakutia and put into open access

2024: Digitization of materials at ElarScan A2-400R

In Yakutia, valuable historical materials will be digitized and put into open access. Elar announced this on July 17, 2024.

source = Elar

With the help of the domestic scanner ElarScan A2-400RNah National Archive of the Republic of Sakha will create electronic copies for thousands of pages of documents from various collections.

The National Archive of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) has been using ELAR scanners for several years. The Archive houses about 1.5 million items of storage. The archive has a unique collection of newspapers published in pre-revolutionary and Soviet times. The earliest document is the Decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich to the governor of the Yakutsk prison D.A. Frantsbekov on sending exiled archers through Tobolsk to the Yakutsk prison, dated February 17, 1649. The surviving early funds include the Yakut and Aldan governor's chancellors, the Verkhnevilyuysky, Zhigansky and Olekminsky commissaries, containing documents from the beginning of the 18th century to the last quarter of the 18th century. Especially valuable and unique documents are digitized and can be accessed through the official website of the archive.

At the same time, there is a significant amount of documents that need to be digitized and placed in the public domain, "said Natalya Stepanovna Stepanova, Deputy Director of the GKU RS (I)" National Archive of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). - In a year, the archive staff enters more than 700 case records, which is more than 5 thousand pages, more than 75 thousand records. The appearance of the ElarScan scanner A2-400R made it possible to ensure uninterrupted digitization, created a certain margin of safety.