State Archives of Vitebsk Region

Finding aids

Number of inventories (opisi) — 10 865

Fond-specific indexes

State Bodies

Fond 2Vitebsk Province Planning
Fond 8Belinskaya Maria Sergeyevna – People’s Artist of the BSSR; Dorsky Iosif Lvovich – her husband, theatrical worker, playwright, Honored Worker of Arts of the BSSR
Fond 9Party and State Control Bodies in Vitebsk Province 1918-1924
Fond 14Vitebsk Province Land Administration
Fond 15Vitebsk Province Economic Council
Fond 16Sheleg Anatoly Grigoryevich – People’s Artist of the BSSR
Fond 56Vitebsk Province Executive Committee
Fond 95 Labour Department of Vitebsk Province Executive Committee
Fond 104Vitebsk District Executive Committee
Fond 118 Vitebsk Okrug Executive Committee
Fond 123 Finance Department of Vitebsk Province Executive Committee
Fond 145 Gorodok District Executive Committee
Fond 330 Gazin Dmitry Romanovich – specialist in local history
Fond 391Zeilert Valentin Karlovich
Fond 406Podlipsky Arkady Mikhailovich
Fond 449Finance Department of Vitebsk Executive Committee
Fond 459Serikov Ivan Artemovich
Fond 470Social Welfare Department at Vitebsk District Council of Workers’, Peasants’ and Red Army Soldiers’ Deputies
Fond 474Memus Aleksandr Iosifovich – painter, publicist, senior lecturer at the P.M. Masherov State University of Vitebsk
Fond 498Dorofeyev Anatoly Maksimovich – Candidate of Biological Sciences, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Protection of the Republic of Belarus
Fond 540Pashkevich Nikifor Evdokimovich – Belarusian literary critic, philologist, writer, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Honored Worker of Culture of the BSSR
Fond 571Vitebsk District Deputies Council
Fond 780Ezerishche District Executive Committee
Fond 795Pankov Nikolay Alekseyevich – Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Russian Literature of the P.M. Masherov State University of Vitebsk, compiler and editor of the magazine “Karnaval. Dialog. Khronotop”
Fond 803Boboriko (Kuznetsova-Boboriko) Maina Maksimovna – children’s female writer, member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the BSSR, member of the Union of Writers of the BSSR
Fond 969Movzon Arkady Iosifovich
Fond 986Zhakov Mikhail Stepanovich
Fond 1031 Labour Department of the Vitebsk Okrug Executive Committee
Fond 1073 Ryabkin (Bereza) Aleksandr Yakovlevich – poet, participant of the Great Patriotic War
Fond 1074 Medvedsky Evgeny Nikandrovich – Honored Physician, Honored Worker of the Higher School of the BSSR, High Achiever in Public Health
Fond 1120 Ilyinsky Aleksandr Konstantinovich – People’s Artist of the USSR; Logovskaya Elena Ivanovna – his wife, Honored Artist of the BSSR
Fond 1441 Pesin Abram Yakovlevich – member of the Union of Journalists of the Republic of Belarus, Candidate of Economic Sciences
Fond 1537 Shmakov Fyodor Ivanovich – Honored Artist of the BSSR, People’s Artist of the BSSR, People’s Artist of the USSR, Winner of the State Prize of the BSSR
Fond 1582Vitebsk Province Military Enlistment Office
Fond 1731Klesova (Korypalova) Galina Ionovna – Head of Culture Administration at the Executive Committee of Vitebsk Region Council of People’s Deputies, Honored Worker of Culture of the BSSR
Fond 1748Klikushin Grigory Filippovich – painter, printing worker, graphic, member of the Union of Painters of the Republic of Belarus
Fond 1931Dolmatov Semyon Kharitonovich – art historian, Professor at the Department of Visual Arts of the Arts and Graphics Faculty of the P.M. Masherov State University of Vitebsk
Fond 1966Vitebsk Region Executive Committee
Fond 1967 Agriculture Administration of the Vitebsk Region Executive Committee
Fond 2065 Konopelko Anatoly Nikolayevich – teacher, poet, member of the Union of Belarusian Writers, associate professor at the P.M. Masherov State University of Vitebsk
Fond 2079 Nosovsky Boris Isaakovich – composer, film director, writer, musical director and conductor of the Belarusian State Academic Yakub Kolsa Drama Theatre of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Fond 2154 Ryvkin Mikhail Stepanovich – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, specialist in local history
Fond 2156 Kotovich Tatiana Victorovna – Doctor of Art History, Professor at the Department of Universal History and World Culture at the P.M. Masherov State University of Vitebsk, member of the Belarusian Union of Theatrical Workers
Fond 2173 Zhigur Andrei Andreyevich – Master of Art History, advertisement painter at the National Academic Yakub Kolas Theatre
Fond 2184 Rudenko Tatian Alekseyevna – master of decorative and applied arts, member of the Belarusian Union of Painters; Rudenko Yury Vasilievich – her husband, master of decorative and applied arts, member of the Belarusian Union of Painters
Fond 2252 Pishchulenok Mikhail Vladimirovich – Candidate of Historical Sciences, head of the archives and records division at the Vitebsk Region Executive Committee, Honored Archivist of the Republic of Belarus
Fond 2257 Smeredinsky Vladimir Alekseyevich – painter, participant of the Great Patriotic War
Fond 2258 Okruzhnaya Svetlana Artemovna – People’s Artist of Belarus
Fond 2260 Simanovich David Grigoryevich – poet, prose writer, member of the Union of Belarusian Writers
Fond 2266 Burakov Yakov Georgiyevich – artist, Honored Worker of Culture of the BSSR; Rodzyalovskaya Elena Pavlovna – his first wife, People’s Artist of the BSSR; Meldyukova Oktyabrina Frantsevna – his second wife, Honored Artist of the BSSR
Fond 2291 Golubev Vladimir Aleksandrovich – astronomer, chair of the Vitebsk Division of the All-Union Astronomy Geodesy Society, Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the P.M. Masherov State University of Vitebsk
Fond 2295 Dubov Georgy Savelyevich – People’s Artist of the BSSR; Shashkina Tamara Grigoryevna – his wife, Honored Artist of the BSSR
Fond 2310 Kichin Aleksandr Markovich – participant of the Great Patriotic War; Kichin Iosif Markovich – his brother, participant of the Great Patriotic War; Kichina Berta Markovna – his sister, scientist-biologist, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the S.M. Kirov State Pedagogical College in Vitebsk; Kichina Yevgeniya Makrovna – his sister, art historian, worker of the Vitebsk Regional Museum
Fond 2381 Markina Galina Petrovna – People’s Artist of the BSSR
Fond 2393 Fedorovsky Matvei Lvovich – actor, pedagogue, Honored Artist of the BSSR
Fond 2420 Kuleshov Vladimir Alekseyevich – People’s Artist of the Republic of Belarus
Fond 2421 Shakulov Grigory Loginovich – children’s writer, poet

Communist Party of Belarus (CPB) Bodies

Fond 573-ОАF Party and government control bodies in Polotsk OkrugBodies and enterprises of food supply, consumer cooperation, trade and public catering in the Vitebsk railway region and the North-Western region of the Western Dvina river transport, which operated in 1917-1941 in the Vitebsk Province (from 17.07.1924 – Vitebsk Okrug, from 26.07.1930 – BSSR, from 15.01.1938 – Vitebsk Region) in Western Region (from 13.09.1918 – Western Commune, from 01.01.1919 – BSSR, from 02.02.1919 – RSFSR, from 03.03.1924 – BSSR)
Fond 10075-p Party and government control bodies in Polotsk Okrug
Fond5-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of artels and cooperatives in Vitebsk Region
Fond 6-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of local government authorities in Vitebsk Region
Fond 8-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of public, social-political and voluntary institutions and societies in Vitebsk Region
Fond 17-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of agricultural, forestry and water institutions and enterprises in Vitebsk Region
Fond 21-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of trade, supply and procurement institutions in Vitebsk Region
Fond 27-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of automobile, air and water transport institutions and enterprises in Vitebsk Region
Fond 33-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of industrial institutions and enterprises in Vitebsk Region
Fond 36-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of construction institutions and enterprises in Vitebsk Region
Fond 59-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of military institutions and special units in the city of Vitebsk and Vitebsk Region
Fond 124-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of public education institutions in Vitebsk Region
Fond 146-p-OAF Committees and pimary CPB organizations of the Belarusian railway institutions and enterprises in Vitebsk Region
Fond 158-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of communal and domestic institutions in Vitebsk Region
Fond 177-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of art, culture, press, science and research institutions in Vitebsk Region
Fond 195-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of healthcare institutions in Vitebsk Region
Fond 208-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of Soviet farms in Vitebsk Region
Fond 209-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of communication, television and radio broadcast institutions in Vitebsk Region
Fond 496-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of finance, credit and state insurance institutions
Fond 1904-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of the state and people’s control, statistics and customs bodies in Vitebsk Region
Fond 3793-p-OAF Primary CPB organizations of cooperatives in Vitebsk Region

Catalogues

Systematic catalogue 259 426 cards
Catalogue on the history of institutions 14 538 cards
Catalogue on the administrative and territorial division 700 cards
Name catalogue 1 761 cards
Personnel catalogue 145 348 cards

Specialized card catalogues

Lists of issues discussed at the plenary meetings, bureau and secretariat sessions of the Communist Party and Komsomol bodies, the meetings of Party and Komsomol activists

Fonds of the Communist Party regional and district committees at Vitebsk, Polotsk, Orsha, Lepel etc. for 1918-1941, 1944-1991 (2 676 lists)

Surveys of fonds

Vitebsk Arts College 1918-1932 (F. 837 )
Personal fonds of M. S. Ryvkin (F. 2154)
Personal fonds of А. А. Zhygura (F. 2173)
Fonds of the state and party control bodies active in the area of present-day Vitebsk Region in 1918-1934 (Fonds 9-ОАФ, 156-п-ОАФ, 159-п, 160-п, 161-п, 1461, 10058-п, 10073-п, 10075-п-ОАФ, 10077-п, 10089-п, 10090-п, 10091-п, 10092-п, 10093-п, 10094-п, 10096-п, 10097-п, 10098-п, 10099-п, 10100-п, 10101-п, 10102-п, 10103-п, 10169-п)

Subject databases

Maps of provinces
Register of finding aids
Name lists
Reference library
Card catalogue of personnel records of liquidated organizations
Digital copies of inventories, files and records

Guides

The State Archives of Vitebsk Region and its Branch at Polotsk 1917-1941. Guidebook. Minsk, 1972

The State Archives of Vitebsk Region. Guidebook. 1917-2006. Vitebsk, 2011.

Information and reference materials

1 791 items

Reference library

16 706 items (13 372 books and brochures, 1 407 sets of journals and 1 927 sets of newspapers )