
The National Archives of Georgia reported that its staff had successfully scanned and digitised 2,786,393 pages of archival documents, 129 film materials, 7,375 photographs, and 465 audio recordings over the past year.
The organisation emphasized that the ongoing transition to digital media is aimed at preserving the original documents from physical deterioration while simultaneously improving public access to these valuable resources.
In addition to its digitisation initiatives, the National Archives launched approximately 10 historical collections on its website in 2024. These collections included multimedia pages dedicated to Vano Sarajishvili, a prominent singer and one of the founders of the Georgian professional vocal performance school in the early 20th century, and Dimitri Kipiani, a publicist, translator, and key figure in late 19th-century Georgian public life, as well as online exhibitions introducing significant historical events.
Other online resources showcased information on Akaki Chkhenkeli, a diplomat and Foreign Minister during the 1918-1921 First Democratic Republic of Georgia, the 1924 anti-Soviet uprising in Georgia, and paintings of Tbilisi’s Old Town by the German-Georgian artist Oskar Schmerling from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The archive also included collections on Georgian historical monuments and works by Aleksandre Roinashvili, a pioneering Georgian professional photographer, as well as by Vittorio Sella, an Italian photographer and mountaineer, who documented the highland Svaneti province of Georgia in the 19th century.
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