No archive - no pension

Several thousand Tomsk residents may lose their pensions due to the fault of their former employers. When management changed at a number of enterprises, important archival documents about the length of service and wages of employees disappeared. Today, employees of the regional state archive sounded the alarm: quite by accident, they learned that at another enterprise - at the Vesna factory - archival documents were about to be lost. In just a week, changes took place at the Vesna factory: everyone except the director, electrician and watchman was fired. Today, only construction workers are in the building, dismantling the interior walls.
According to the builders, people come here every day asking for a certificate stating that they once worked here. But there is no one to give the certificate, and there is nowhere to get it. Recently, a wall collapsed in the room where the entire archive of the factory was kept since 1932. The documents were pulled out from under the rubble and moved to another room.
Tomsk archivists learned by chance that the archives of the Vesna joint-stock company were about to be lost. They were approached by a woman who had specially come from Kemerovo for a certificate stating that she worked at a garment factory. She was not given a certificate. But no document - no experience, no experience - no pension, or rather, only a minimal one. There are many such cases: several enterprises in our city have already said goodbye to their archives, contrary to the law. "Spring" may be about to join these ranks.
The Vesna factory entered into an agreement with the archivists that it would carefully store all documents. But the management of the enterprise changed, and for some reason they forgot about the agreement, although, as stated, they were obliged to follow it. And now the archive workers can only look at the fragments of brick walls and hope that the documents can be sorted out. If, of course, they are still intact. It was not possible to verify this today: the door to the room with the papers was closed, and the key, according to the workers, was taken somewhere by someone.
Tomorrow the archivists will still try to get an explanation from the factory director. We hope that the conversation will not take place behind closed doors, and we will be able to talk about how this story ends.