"[4] As a result of this several rooms in the Minsk Trade Union Building were allocated for Aladava to run a national gallery from,[4] which eventually opened in 1947.

[2] She had been appointed Director in 1944 and one of her first tasks had been to organise the gallery's first inventory of works, which was based entirely on the memories of members of staff, since no previous list had been made.

[1] Her work also involved purchasing art from artists such as Boris Kustodiev, Vasily Polenov, Karl Briullov and Isaak Levitan.

[1] She led a number of research expeditions during her time as Director, notably discovering the icon of the Virgin Hodegetria of Smolensk from Dubyanets in 1958.

[6] On one occasion, whilst director of the museum, Aladava complained to the visiting artist Nadia Léger about a lack of funding.