Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a quotation record.
00:00:00The girls' recording
00:00:30will continue until September
00:00:3313th. The metropolitan Art House gallery is starting
00:00:36a new exhibition season. The first exposition of the creative start is a collection
00:00:40of works by the renowned Belarusian master Vladimir Gladkov
00:00:44between Heaven and Earth. In the art space, there are new
00:00:48and already familiar works of his - 42 works in two
00:00:51sections, paintings from travels to different countries and Belarusian
00:00:54themes. Gladkov embodies Polotsk, Minsk, Polesie
00:00:58motives, landscapes.
00:01:30trade and the market are also on the boats, everything is brought, barrels, pickles
00:01:34are sold, well, and I got infected, so I wrote
00:01:37fishermen, supplemented that cycle of works on Belarus,
00:01:40which is related to modernity, this season
00:01:44we are opening with an exhibition by Vladimir Glatkov,
00:01:48the title is between heaven and earth, between heaven and earth - what is it? it's our life,
00:01:52our life, our history, everything that
00:01:54is directly related to humanity, I think this exhibition should not
00:01:58go unnoticed. Vladimir Gladkov, representative
00:02:02of the old academic art school, his works are in
00:02:05state museums of Belarus, private collections around
00:02:09the world, the exhibition at the Minsk Art House gallery can
00:02:13be seen until September 30th. More news
00:02:16on our website news.by, stay tuned to the first informational.
00:03:10we cherish, it's a matter of presentation, yes,
00:05:42wherever you want, go there, and I thought, what can I do, history turned out best
00:05:46for me, and what is it like
00:05:48to accidentally unearth a church, we just
00:05:52surveyed, by chance I, with local
00:05:55guys from Lyatlovskaya gymnasium, discovered a previously unknown
00:05:58ground burial site from the era of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, it's interesting,
00:06:02was it your personal choice to dig precisely in a quiet courtyard among
00:06:05five-story buildings, it's good that we are not on the avenue, because there should be silence in
00:06:08the library, in every district local people are sure that gold is buried with them.
00:06:12it's buried, that's 100%. Do you have a video announcing this
00:06:16road? Of course, it's on the surface, it's
00:06:19to present our history through
00:06:22books, through archives, including archives of prominent figures of science and
00:06:26culture. I have long wanted to see the snake-headed
00:06:28bracelet. For example, I read a lot, I read a lot.
00:06:31But I will always choose a book over reading from
00:06:35a tablet.
00:06:53Hello, you are watching the program "Say, don't be silent." In the studio, Victoria Popova and
00:06:57Tatyana Shchurbina. And today our guest is the director of the central
00:07:01scientific library named after Yakub Kolas, National
00:07:04Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Stanislav Yuretsky. Good afternoon, Stanislav
00:07:08Stepanovich. We did not accidentally invite you to visit
00:07:12very soon. On September 15th, the country
00:07:15will celebrate Library Day, we will definitely talk about it, but
00:07:19first about the main milestones of your biography: you
00:07:22are a candidate of historical sciences, suddenly your career leads you to
00:07:26a library, albeit a large one, albeit a scientific one, albeit
00:07:29perhaps the second in the country, yes, in terms of content,
00:07:33but still, how does an archaeologist and historian become
00:07:37a library director? Well, that's
00:07:39an interesting question, I can immediately say that I never thought
00:07:43I would work in a library, especially in the library of the Academy of Sciences, because when I
00:07:46wrote my doctoral dissertation, I always
00:07:50worked in the national library, that is, I went there since my student days,
00:07:53there, well, it was somehow more convenient, familiar to me,
00:07:57imagine, you are a scientist, you didn't go to a scientific library,
00:08:00you went to a central one, well, I did, but not that often, because from
00:08:04student days, students were usually more oriented towards the national one
00:08:07at BSU, the academic one is more for already established
00:08:11scientists.
00:09:12now we found out, well, it happens, yes, pots
00:09:16are made by a postgraduate student, yes, yes, yes, so he led
00:09:20to interest, and he himself graduated from the historical faculty
00:09:23of BSU, I somehow approached him for advice, because
00:09:27you know, there are some parents who press you, that you should be
00:09:30so-and-so, as if realizing their idea, but I was told, go wherever
00:09:34you want, and I thought, what can I do, history worked out best
00:09:37for me, well, and the social science cycle, I approached him, consulted, he
00:09:41told me about...
00:10:12then there are teachers at work, older colleagues who guide you, because
00:10:16well, I am still probably considered a young
00:10:19leader, I became head of the department at, I think, 28-29
00:10:23years old, deputy director at 32, then at 33-34
00:10:26director, it's clear that someone helped me, not that it was like
00:10:30a godparent, to help with the dissertation, defend it, that's the task of the scientific
00:10:34supervisor, then to give a recommendation for some
00:10:37position, so that it would be considered and so on, to give advice so that you would work normally in that position,
00:10:40carry out assignments and so on, so of course there are teachers, that's
00:10:44normal, it's mentoring, that's what is often talked about now,
00:10:48that young people need to be helped, including through the institution of mentoring, I
00:10:52can confirm from my own example that this is very important.
00:11:25for cultural workers to even put up
00:11:28certain signs where these objects are located in this city, and
00:11:31what is it like to accidentally
00:11:34unearth a church, it probably somehow
00:11:38excites there is nothing accidental
00:11:41of course, there are maps on which it was marked, but precisely to determine to the meter
00:11:44where, well, of course, that is, you were actually looking
00:11:48purposefully, yes, and well, you understand, archaeologists are always
00:11:52scientists, we are looking for something purposeful, not just anything.
00:11:55Yes, no, no, of course not, but sometimes it happens that you are looking for one thing,
00:11:59and you find another, I had a case in the Dyatlovo district,
00:12:03we just surveyed an archaeological monument, it's
00:12:06a hillfort, a "plate," as it's called, it's near
00:12:10the town of Rogotna, uh-huh, we just surveyed,
00:12:13by chance I, with students and Vadim Leonidovich,
00:12:17by the way, was with me then too, with local
00:12:20guys from the Dyatlovo gymnasium, discovered a previously unknown ground
00:12:23burial site,
00:12:38then we laid out an even bigger excavation and there were very interesting finds
00:12:41of burials precisely for these
00:12:44people to the other world, as if they laid jewelry and even
00:12:48weapons, someone was there, yes, well, not that they were noble, these were local
00:12:51people, but they still retained pagan beliefs, let's say.
00:13:31Well, why, first of all, wasn't it scary to dig up a burial, weren't you scared? No, well, I can generally say
00:13:35that the first time I dug up a burial, I had a nightmare
00:13:39that night, but then it was fine,
00:13:42it let go of me, although I faced people even refusing
00:13:45to dig, well, they were supposed to help, but they asked for another job
00:13:49and I especially remember one woman, I was talking about Sislach, when we
00:13:52were digging the church, and next to the church, there was a cemetery,
00:13:56it's clear, we found these deceased, and we were digging in
00:14:00the territory of the district executive committee, there's the agriculture department,
00:14:03well, and they said, you can leave them there in the basement, and there
00:14:07was a security woman, she was very worried at night that she had
00:14:11corpses under her, no, no, you know, I
00:14:14look at it more as a scientist, and what kind of nightmare
00:14:18was it, a ghost chasing you, gleme yes, something like
00:14:21that happened, yes, but I think it's just.
00:14:55anthropologists in the Institute of History, they immediately say, sex, age,
00:14:59what the person ate and what they died from, you can say, or what they were sick with, because all this is reflected on
00:15:02the bones, especially such age-related diseases, then
00:15:06again, it's a burial rite, those finds that catch
00:15:10rings, jewelry, even weapons, means the beliefs
00:15:13of people, that is, it means they believed that this would be useful to a person in the afterlife, this
00:15:17is mythology, which is practically little known, only these
00:15:21burial monuments give us an idea of this,
00:15:24mhm, of course. these very things, which give an idea of material culture,
00:15:28that is, it's a complex burial, and it also
00:15:30usually gives a very narrow chronology, especially if there are
00:15:34coins, that is, it can be quite well, let's say
00:15:46our viewers don't see that you're 2 meters tall, these
00:15:50people from the 14th-15th centuries, how tall were they?
00:15:54Well, 160-170, that is, I wouldn't say they were small, for
00:15:57women it's like normal now, normal,
00:16:00yes, well, of course, people like me, almost 2 meters tall, are much rarer,
00:16:04but they do exist, well, it depends on nutrition. because how we
00:16:08eat now, that is, our ancestors never ate as abundantly and as
00:16:12variedly as we do now, that is, we eat well now,
00:16:15of course, and I, as a historian, will tell you that Belarusians have never lived
00:16:18as well as we live now, in none of the historical periods, well, there just wasn't so much obesity, probably then
00:16:22there were problems too, you know, well, you know, I think it was always
00:16:26there, but here - it's hard to determine from the
00:16:29bones, no, well, various age-related
00:16:32changes can be seen there.
00:16:35well, of course, not so much, because so much, firstly, the teeth are in very
00:16:39good condition in general, and even when I worked with, there were
00:16:43school teachers with me and a woman said, oh my god, such teeth,
00:16:47well, practically without this, why? Because there wasn't so much
00:16:50sugar, we have even more sugar than when I remember my childhood in the 90s,
00:16:54we didn't eat as many candies as our
00:16:58children eat, even we ourselves, we ate candies on holidays, and
00:17:01children now eat them every day, it's every day and you won't
00:17:04surprise anyone. in fact, Ilda is known primarily for its
00:17:38castle, but the city was practically not
00:17:41studied, well, I didn't really want to go there, because
00:17:45I had never studied such a large, medieval city before,
00:17:48so, but then somehow
00:17:52I still had to go, I went there, they persuaded me, local
00:17:55staff from the museum also asked me, please
00:17:58come, we are waiting so much, and I came, in fact,
00:18:02what's difficult in the city is that, firstly, it's difficult to get
00:18:05permission to dig, because the city is completely populated and Lida is a large district
00:18:09center, well, when the executive committee gives
00:18:12the green light, excellent, then choose wherever you want to dig, secondly, well, wherever you want, there's
00:18:16asphalt everywhere, tiles everywhere, yes, but
00:18:19I chose a flowerbed, that is, in the yard, and so far, according to
00:18:23the maps, yes, this is the part
00:18:25of the historical center, you see how you approached the technical
00:18:29task in a businesslike manner, we will dig where there is a
00:18:33flowerbed, not tiles, in case we don't find anything, we'll just
00:18:36plough it, the excavations were very
00:18:38interesting, very well, of course, it was
00:18:42difficult for me, it's very difficult to dig in a city, more difficult than a burial, because
00:18:46there's an abundance of material, well, in a city
00:18:49there are more things, what is cultural history, what archaeologists deal with,
00:18:52what people threw away, or what remains of all of us, yes, that is,
00:18:56roughly speaking, all of it is everywhere, wherever you put a shovel,
00:19:00there is a cultural layer everywhere, yes, well, in
00:19:02cities,
00:19:05mostly in city centers, yes.
00:19:37is a sense of involvement in history important for you? Yes, you know,
00:19:41it's something that, you know, every scientist is
00:19:43a little, well, obsessed with their topic, I, for example, am obsessed with
00:19:47archaeology, and I this is both my hobby
00:19:51and my work, and my hobby, that is, I even dream
00:19:54about it, but when you work with people and see that they
00:19:58become interested, you understand that it's not only interesting
00:20:01to you or to scientists in your circle, but also to society, in Lida - that
00:20:05was a living example, because yes...
00:21:50Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences and we are now colleagues,
00:21:53so I am sure that many of these guys became interested in history,
00:21:56and what about Lida, let's finish,
00:22:00what did we understand about Lida, that it is indeed
00:22:03the oldest city, yes, no, what we know is that it is the oldest city, firstly, these
00:22:07excavations allowed us to outline
00:22:09the boundaries of the market square that was there approximately,
00:22:13secondly, it is the foundation of one of the houses that adjoined this
00:22:17quarter to this square in Lida, secondly, it is
00:22:20the peculiarities of house building, the bulk of the materials there are
00:22:23from the 19th, early 20th century, but there are older things,
00:22:26for example, from the 18th century, that is,
00:22:30an abundance of material culture, that is, what the local Lida residents
00:22:33used, what is important, I handed all this over to the Lida museum,
00:22:37that is, they can use it in their expositions,
00:22:41it shows not only that Lida is just a castle, but it is also the Lida residents who
00:22:44lived near this Lida castle, and besides, the castle was a bit intimidating,
00:22:48no, it doesn't produce that impression. Well, the castle itself didn't
00:22:51intimidate, it was like
00:22:54under these foundations, parts of walls, but of course it was heavily destroyed, and
00:22:58what we see as such a complete object, it was
00:23:01restored, but honestly, it's my favorite castle of all Belarusian ones,
00:23:04despite the fact that they criticize it for having red brick, but
00:23:08on the contrary, it allows me to see exactly where it's new and where it's
00:23:12old, that's first, but also, secondly, that it's
00:23:15made to look like it approximately looked in the 14th-15th century, I like
00:23:18that, generally...
00:23:26but in Novogrudok, it's not fully
00:23:30restored yet, there are no bricks there yet, no,
00:23:33there are bricks there, but I prefer
00:23:37Lida, because if it's about castles, although if it's about favorite cities,
00:23:40then I like Novogrudok more, yes, yes, you said that the most interesting
00:23:44finds are yet to come, what would you like
00:23:46to find, you have...
00:26:16for a short time, "Say Don't Be Silent" is back on air, today our guest is the director of the central
00:26:20scientific library named after Yakub Kolas of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,
00:26:24Stanislav Yuretsky. In this part, we will talk about the library and
00:26:27I think it's time to answer the most important question
00:26:31of our time, how to get to the library? Do you have
00:26:34a video announcing this journey?
00:27:17Well, it's clear that it's not central, yes, you can't see it from
00:27:21the avenue, you need to know where to turn a little, but still,
00:27:25if such a video appeared, it means not everyone
00:27:28knows the way to your library, agree?
00:28:02they are carried out by us remotely via
00:28:05the Internet, and I will even say, from last year's experience, about
00:28:09500,000 requests per year, of which
00:28:12450,000 are online, that is, online ordering
00:28:15of literature, some references, ordering
00:28:18electronic versions of documents, so how
00:28:21convenient it is now to study and work at home
00:28:25you can, yes, everything ordered
00:28:28you know, there are also, by the way, two sides of the coin, at home - it's
00:28:31convenient.
00:29:02distracted, let's remind the viewers that the Yakub Kolas Library
00:29:06celebrated its centennial
00:29:09anniversary last year, what does it mean for you to be its director,
00:29:12you got into this position almost by chance,
00:29:15but after some time, what can you say, what does it mean
00:29:18to you, for me it is a great responsibility, when you
00:29:22look back at the entire path taken by the organization, which started as
00:29:25a small library at the Institute of Belarusian Culture,
00:29:28then the Academy of Sciences was created from it. It went through
00:29:32the Great Patriotic War, when all the funds were evacuated, it was
00:29:36destroyed and, in fact, it was re-created
00:29:40after the war, so this is, of course, a great responsibility, you know, I was coming
00:29:43to you today, even in the morning I was dropping off my child at kindergarten, I see
00:29:47that a woman is sitting there in the window, some kindergarten
00:29:50employee on her phone, and a man of very advanced age,
00:29:53who was a doorman there or whoever I don't know, also on
00:29:57his phone, I thought, what is it they are reading
00:30:01and somehow it stuck with me. Recently I noticed, I started to notice,
00:30:04that the period has passed when paper
00:30:07books disappeared from the hands of Minsk residents, more and more often
00:30:11you meet people sitting in a square in a park, not with
00:30:14a gadget, but with a book, on public transport, again, there are also people
00:30:18who read books, this is also a good trend, in my opinion, no, well, this
00:30:21trend exists, it is understandable, yes, there was a period when it was thought
00:30:25that books would fade away, as they once
00:30:27said that theater would fade away because cinema was created, but nevertheless people go to
00:30:31the theater and... watch performances and not only go to
00:30:34the cinema, radio also remained, despite the fact that there is theater and
00:30:38cinema, just like a physical book, for example, I
00:30:42read a lot, I read a lot, but I will always
00:30:45choose a book over reading from a tablet, because
00:30:48nothing can replace the feeling of that
00:30:50motor skill, even if you work with a scientific text, I need to
00:30:54write down some notes, for example, stick them on, this motor skill
00:30:57is somewhat different than just, yes, when you just
00:31:01look at the screen. Or, for example, I still check
00:31:04the Belarus Today newspaper
00:31:07and other newspapers every morning, which I don't read, well, that's
00:31:11you, but what about young people, what about your daughter, will she have such motor skills?
00:31:15They say, well, I'm still,
00:31:19I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the fact that you have preserved it since your school days,
00:31:22since your student days, I'll put it this way, I also have a son, he's older,
00:31:26ah, well, unfortunately, I missed this,
00:31:30he couldn't speak yet, but he learned to turn on
00:31:33the tablet, remove the lock, turn on
00:31:37YouTube, select cartoons on YouTube that he was interested in, he couldn't speak yet,
00:31:40well, you understand, you can't say whether it's good or bad, it's life, they will be like that,
00:31:44it's...
00:35:15we, I hope, will present the full translation of this
00:35:18work this year. And explain, why was it important to re-publish
00:35:21his treatise? Well, look, why is it important?
00:35:24First of all, popularization, because specialists are familiar with this
00:35:28work, familiar with its text,
00:35:31it is important, you see,
00:35:33to show it in its full volume, because we say, great art
00:35:37of artillery, great art, what is written there, or at least what
00:35:40illustrations there are, well, you can guess something, there is also
00:35:44little about it on the Internet, and we decided to publish it in a fairly large print run, it
00:35:48is still available, by the way, in bookstores, such a good gift, I think,
00:35:52yes, among other things, because when you still
00:35:55hold a book in your hands, it's still
00:35:58quite different impressions, especially you can see the features
00:36:01of its text
00:36:04and the publication, well, here at the beginning we
00:36:07have the research part, where the features of the translation and biography
00:36:11of Casimir Sevich are written here...
00:36:27always close, well, unfortunately, yes, unfortunately,
00:36:31yes, how we develop, this is yes, in all
00:36:34periods of human history, therefore, of course, one of
00:36:38the tasks of our generation is to preserve a peaceful Belarus, which
00:36:42our head of state always talks about, this is our
00:36:45task, it is not easy, and we must all, each in his own
00:36:49place, do what he can for this, strive to preserve peace, a peaceful,
00:36:53creative life of ours. Stanislav Stepanovich, in one of
00:36:56your speeches, you spoke about the need.
00:37:27was to purchase certain equipment that would maintain not only
00:37:31the temperature, which can be achieved with an air conditioner, but also the air humidity, which
00:37:35is important for books that are constantly in the exhibition,
00:37:37constantly being presented, that is also very
00:37:40important, so the modernization of book preservation for all
00:37:44libraries is always very important, first of all, it is the maintenance of all
00:37:47conditions for fire safety, because any library is a fire-hazardous
00:37:51place, any just like an archive, yes, very dangerous, we remember
00:37:54the Alexandrian Library.
00:38:27will become a well-known figure in Belarusian culture, science, yes, we
00:38:31have correspondence on Telegram, by
00:38:34email, and it will not become public, then no, it will become
00:38:37public, but it is prohibited by law, no, it will, well,
00:38:41how, everyone passes it on either during their lifetime, or their relatives
00:38:45there, husbands, spouses pass it on, where to store it, how to
00:38:48store it, how to account for it, these are the tasks, because these are
00:38:52new challenges, I would say, right, how to account for it, how to store it, and how to store many
00:38:55books, you haven't figured it out? No, well, how do we store it, well, more than
00:38:594 million storage units, the national library has even more,
00:39:03there are other libraries where we store a lot, these are shelves, shelving
00:39:06systems, ventilation systems, this is
00:39:09dedusting and so on, and have any new technologies appeared
00:39:12that are replacing old ones, are they,
00:39:15let's say, more energy-saving, less some kind of
00:39:18vacuum packaging, I don't know, there are, it's all not so
00:39:22new, I would say that the main thing that has been changing library life
00:39:25for a long time, but faster and faster, faster is
00:39:28the Internet, it's again working with remote
00:39:31access, people now rarely visit, and this will be the trend
00:39:35further, especially here it's just about
00:39:37information, because libraries are different, it's now saying library,
00:39:40issued a book, took a book, no,
00:39:44there are the most massive public libraries, city, district,
00:39:48regional, they are more focused on cultural events,
00:39:52that is, you can say that there are meetings with poets, with writers, there are
00:39:55some clubs and so on, Chinese
00:40:34scientists, and all this will be through digital internet, this
00:40:38is what is intensifying every year, we are implementing more and more,
00:40:41perhaps the idea of a book depository will take
00:40:45a back seat, servers will be in first place, no,
00:40:48the book will still be in first place, because for now
00:40:52everything, everything, you know, I'll tell you what, everything that can be touched, probably everything that
00:40:56has been published... remains, there is a good saying, what is published
00:40:59remains, what is currently digital, I'm not sure that
00:41:03it's forever, for example, if there's no
00:41:06electricity or there are restrictions on Internet
00:41:10access, how to provide access, so I'll
00:41:14tell you that we continue to maintain not only an electronic catalog, you can
00:41:17even access it from your phone and check what we have, what we don't, order,
00:41:21if you're registered, well, and a card catalog, I personally
00:41:25haven't used it since my first year, that was
00:41:282007-2008, when I was still a student, I personally didn't
00:41:32even now, I know it's there, and well,
00:41:35what if, for example, you need it?
00:41:39нужна будет?
00:42:10publications, rather than if there is a choice only in an electronic collection
00:42:13or yes, I agree with you, it's all dust and there's no electronic
00:42:17anything, yes, you probably also worked when with texts, it
00:42:21disappears in an unknown direction, when you
00:42:24printed it, you no longer, well, although he says that what is on the Internet, it
00:42:28always remains, but I have doubts,
00:42:31maybe as a historian, you know, I always approach something new, so that it's material,
00:42:35do you argue, your wife works at the Institute of
00:42:38History,
00:44:10the project itself started in 2005, from 2010 they started publishing these
00:44:14catalogs, when I became director, the question arose: will we
00:44:17finish, continue, because they had done the bulk by this
00:44:21time by 2022, but
00:44:23a small und описанная portion remained. part of this
00:44:26library, and you know, how new
00:44:29directors still, there's a temptation to overturn what was
00:44:32done before you, well to steer this
00:44:36ship in a completely new way, and there was such an opportunity, that is, I...
00:44:40when I was appointed to this position, that I should do it in a new way,
00:44:43and so on, that is to lead this institution, but I
00:44:47still, after consulting with colleagues, with scientists who work in this library
00:44:50of mine, we still continued this project and
00:44:54re-published it, and last year the final volume came out, in essence, one can
00:44:58say, the entire library of Radiiev, which we inherited,
00:45:02after, by the way, the holiday will be on September 17th, the Day
00:45:05of Reunification, thanks to this, including Belarus largely
00:45:09acquired this.
00:45:40from your library, maybe some
00:45:43original gift? Well, of course, it's on
00:45:46the surface, it's to present our
00:45:49history through books, through archives, including
00:45:53archives of prominent figures of science, culture, well,
00:45:57to help with the experience that we have, we will certainly try
00:46:00to apply it, we will help with what we can, of course, our
00:46:04collection is ready to be given
00:46:06museum, the collections, it's not my collection, it's a general
00:46:10collection of the director, there isn't one yet, well
00:46:14I am the director, yes, but I don't consider that
00:46:17I sat on these funds for no one, of course, every director
00:46:20is interested in his library or museum having something
00:46:24unique, but the national museum is a common asset, a common cause,
00:46:28therefore, certainly, if there is an interest in filling
00:46:31this museum with our, be it book
00:46:34book copies or archival ones, then we
00:46:38will consider it an honor if they are... presented in the exhibition of the National Museum? Well, I
00:46:42heard something like that, that a lot of digital content is expected there, so
00:46:46will there be any books as books at all? No, well, no,
00:46:49digital content is good, but on the other hand.
00:48:23Well, a beautiful city, precisely in the museum, I myself am even
00:48:26surprised how dedicated people are, as they say,
00:48:30to their work, well, I was recently in the Turov Museum,
00:48:33of course, there is what is under the dome, that is, the temple of the Old Russian
00:48:37period, but there is also a museum where there are wonderful
00:48:40ethnographic samples of Poleshuks
00:48:43and so on, you can't turn off the historian in yourself, and I am
00:48:47telling you about ordinary people, well, I don't know, I am also an ordinary person
00:48:50to some extent.
00:49:52it should be, but a beautiful picture, in my opinion, it should
00:49:56emphasize these artifacts, these books, some
00:49:59samples of what
00:50:03now the generation has a clip thinking, it will be even worse later,
00:50:06well, what I see in my children and in others, in students,
00:50:10I also teach at the university, well, look, an analog in this shard or
00:50:14pot, or on the screen this beautifully flown
00:50:17shard and flown somewhere, well,
00:50:20what has an emotional impact? On a child, it's cooler, what do
00:50:23you think? Well, you see, emotions should carry some
00:50:27semantic load, if someone suddenly jumps out, that's also emotions, well, and
00:50:31the pot flew by, so what, there should be some meaning, but nothing, it
00:50:35just flew by, you know what a wind tunnel in a shopping
00:50:38center, right? Well, yes, but we are a museum, as it seems to me,
00:50:42at least what I think
00:50:46about, the museum, it is being built, and the new
00:50:49exhibition is not for nothing, it is necessary to...
00:51:22I don't use TikTok, but I use some reels on Instagram, yes, when, for what,
00:51:26when you need to turn off your brain, that's seriously, and I don't know a single person
00:51:30who learned anything on TikTok, well, maybe I'm wrong, well, they know how to pickle
00:51:33cucumbers there, believe me, no, the person who
00:51:36presents it knows how to, will the person who
00:51:40watches learn, well, maybe, but I'm still, you know,
00:51:44critical of this, in
00:51:46the next part of our program, we will find out why our guest once
00:51:50visited Baikonur, but for now let's take a break, no need.
00:52:05In the air again, "Don't Be Silent," our guest today is the director of the Central
00:52:09Scientific Library named after Yakub Kolas, National
00:52:12Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Stanislav Yuretsky.
00:52:16Stanislav Stepanovich, let's discuss Baikonur, after all, how did you end
00:52:20up there? I ended up there somewhat
00:52:23by chance, a delegation was being formed
00:52:26to see off our Marina Vasilevskaya
00:52:30into space, and was this before or after?
00:52:33No, this was after.
00:53:05how many resources have been invested and, most importantly, intellect, to create
00:53:08a cosmodrome in the desert of Kazakhstan, how much
00:53:11effort, energy has been invested, and when
00:53:14Marina flew, that is, the fact that Belarus has become a full-fledged space
00:53:18power, its own cosmonaut, believe me, it's also
00:53:21an indescribable, more like, a historical moment, and who else but a historian should be
00:53:24present at it? You recently attended the Science Festival with your daughter,
00:53:28which was held in the botanical garden, what exhibits
00:53:31or perhaps experiments impressed you the most?
00:54:05little notches on its body, on this bracelet, and you can only see it up
00:54:08very close, I looked at it and I was very impressed,
00:54:12and who were the contacts with, it turns out? That is, well, these were
00:54:16Slavs, when they came here, the local population, most likely
00:54:20Balto-speaking, who had a cult of the snake, this is most
00:54:23likely how they communicated
00:54:26with each other, these contacts show it, this is my brightest
00:54:29impression, but for a child, I
00:54:32think that... the Institute of History printed
00:54:35these, they're great, they're like
00:54:38coloring books of the medieval population of Belarus,
00:54:41you had to color them with pencils, the child is very active, not only mine,
00:54:45I took everyone to our library location, left her there
00:54:48for a while, she also drew, you could create
00:54:52your own ex-libris there, by the way, it's a kind of ownership
00:54:56mark, which is either
00:54:58printed or stamped or glued to books,
00:55:02well, in principle, the interest of children, yes, there
00:55:06were many of them, to this festival, it warms your
00:55:09soul, do you believe in the future of science? Of course,
00:55:12I believe, science is the future, and I can
00:55:15say from the students I work with, that they, not all,
00:55:19of course, not everyone can be scientists, and not everyone needs
00:55:22to be scientists, but a certain percentage of inquisitive people who
00:55:26are ready to sit for days, hours, nights and
00:55:29think, invent, come up with something new,
00:55:32prove something, you understand, I'll look beyond the horizon, task.
00:56:05We certainly wish you to find in your
00:56:08burial mounds, as you like to call them, something valuable,
00:56:11to make that very discovery that the whole world will know about, Tatyana
00:56:15Shcherbina, Victoria Popova, we say goodbye to you today, goodbye, goodbye,
00:56:19now Stanislav Yuretsky speaks.
00:56:22Dear colleagues, friends, study the history
00:56:25of Belarus, it is actually very interesting, come to
00:56:28libraries, museums and the Academy of Sciences, we will
00:56:32always be happy to tell you something new and interesting.
00:56:36Stanislav Stepanovich, we talked a lot today about the fact that for us
00:56:39a book still remains the best gift, and as
00:56:42we see, your words are not at odds with your deeds, you also came with
00:56:45gifts to us, yes, we talked about this book today,
00:56:49this is Kazimierz Semenovich, a facsimile edition, this
00:56:52book treasure of the National Academy of Belarus, that is, here
00:56:55are collected all our most
00:56:59valuable editions, which I hope will interest readers, so I
00:57:03will sign it.
00:57:07Today,
00:57:16here you go.