On March 30, 2023, the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was visited by a delegation of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences headed by its director Alexander Viktorovich Rabotkevich.

During the meeting, the issues of acquisition and use of archival documents, the work directions of Belarusian and Russian archivists, the practice of publishing documents and developing individual issues of the history of science of the two countries were discussed, promising topics for joint research were outlined. Following the meeting, it was decided to sign a cooperation agreement between the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences.