Collegium of the main archive department under RT Cabinet on results of work of archive institutions for 2011 and tasks for 2012 was held today in Kazan. Tatarstan PM Ildar Khalikov attended the event.

Head of the department Danil Ibragimov told about achievements, objectives and problems of the institution. He informed employees continue working on transfer to rendering services in electronic format. The work on improving material and technical base of archives was fulfilled last year.

Speaking about problems Head of Department informed ensuring fire safety of archives (about 15 mln roubles are required for installing automated gas fire-fighting equipment) and shortage of free area are currently very urgent problems. Danil Ibragimov believes construction of attached block near the archive building on Dekabristov Street will help solving the last problem.

Moreover, an Australian investment construction holding “Strabag” represented by Russian representative is ready to take part in construction of this building and render assistance on attracting foreign investments in the project.

Employees of archive department worry about frequent cases of notifications about absence of documents by personnel of bankrupt organizations and “abandoned” archives of liquidated organizations.

Danil Ibragimov addressed the audience noting that more than 2 000 archive units in state archives of Tatarstan need to be restored.

Employees of archive institutions put high hopes on a complex program on preservation of cultural heritage “Miras-heritage” for 2012-2016 to be approved this year so that they will refill RT Archive fund with new valuable unique documents and restore the old ones.

Head of the department focused on urgent need for safe protected storage for digital information of great volume and great computing capacities for processing and cataloging of this information.

Summing up, Ildar Khalikov thanked the staff of archive institutions for their work noting that improvement of archive-keeping would be more priority in 2012.