During the six months of 2019, the Documents’ Restoration Laboratory of the National Archives of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia carried out restoration work: 12 522 sheets, 304 photo positives, 75 technical drawings, 69 newspapers and other archival material.

Among the restored documents are 469 sheets of documents preserved in the Old Documents Division of the Central Historical Archive, dating back to the 17th-19th centuries; the 19th-20th century’s periodicals; drawings from the Technical Division of the Central Archive of Contemporary History; materials from the Division of Literature and Art.

304 photo positives (two albums) kept in the Central Archives of Cinematographic Documents were also restored. One album units photos of those arrested by the Gendarmerie in Gori in the 1900s, and the other depicts the opening of the Mirza Gelovani Library in Tbilisi in 1975.