Gintaras Dručkus

Kaunas Regional State Archives (Lithuania). 

Gintaras Dručkus holds a master’s degree in history from Vilnius University, Faculty of History (Lithuania), which he acquired in 1983. He has published numerous articles, reports, and publications focused on museology, history, and archiving, with a particular emphasis on the history of Lithuania in the first half of the 20th century. 

His notable publications include the monograph Kaunas City Maps in the 19th – Beginning of the 20th Centuries (Kaunas, 2007) and an article titled Establishment of the Central State Archives of Lithuania in 1918-1921 published in Kauno istorijos metraštis (T. 9, 2008). He is also one of the compilers and co-authors of Dusk Pilgrims: History of Lithuanian Partisans Vytautas District Lokys Selection 1944 – 1958 (2011). Additionally, he collaborated with Kristina Stanišauske on the publication Archives, Archivists and Society: Kaunas County Archive’s Good Practice (Warsaw, Poland, May 22, 2015) and presented To Preserve Archives: Is It Possible to Turn Challenges into Opportunities? Mission (Im)possible at an event in Lemont, Illinois, USA, on October 23, 2021.