State Archives of Gomel Region

Finding aids

Number of fonds (record groups) – 2 666
Number of inventories (opisi) – 4 489
Number of electronic inventories – 3 749
Number of files – 595 472

Indexes to inventories within a record group (fond):

Subject index

Fond 9 Administrative Department of Gomel Province Executive Committee
Fond 11 Health Department of Gomel Province Executive Committee
Fond 13 Land Office of Gomel Province Executive Committee
Fond 14 Health Department of Rechitsa District Executive Committee
Fond 19 Social Welfare Department of Gomel Province Executive Committee
Fond 24 Gomel Province Council of Workers’, Peasants’ and Red Army Soldiers’ Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 33 Kholmech Rural Council of Workers’, Peasants’ and Red Army Soldiers’ Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 39 Gomel Province Military Commissariat
Fond 48 Gomel Province Statistics Bureau
Fond 61 Dobrush District Council of People’s Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 111 Finance Department of Gomel Province Executive Committee
Fond 119 Gomel Province Food Committee
Fond 135 Loev Rural Council of Workers’, Peasants’ and Red Army Soldiers’ Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 208 Rogachev District Council of People’s Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 240 Gomel District Branch of the All-Union Trade Union of Transport Workers
Fond 297 Gomel District Union of Dairy, Livestock and Poultry Cooperatives
Fond 443 Gomel District Summary Court
Fond 466 Vetka District Deputies’ Council
Vetka District Executive Committee
Fond 530 Physical Culture, Sports and Turism Department of Gomel City Executive Committee
Fond 703 South-West Forest Transport Trust “Yugzaptranles”
Fond 782 Buda-Koshelevo District People’s Deputies Council and Executive Committee
Fond 2811 Gomel Region Committee of the Red Cross Society
Fond 2813 Gomel Territorial Administration of Forest Protection and Plantation
Fond 3439 Gomel Production Association of Energetics and Electrification “Gomelenergo”
Fond 3775 Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism Department at Gomel Region Executive Committee

Geographical index

Fond 1 Polesie Match Trust
Fond 24 Gomel Province Soviet of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 33 Kholmech Volost Executive Committee
Fond 71 Gomel Province Economic Council
Fond 135 Loev Volost Executive Committee
Fond 138 Gomel District Union of Agricultural, Collective, Mechanical and Land Reclamation Associations
Fond 280 Gomel Province Department of Domestic and Small Industry and Field Cooperatives
Fond 317 Vetka Volost Council of Workers, Soldiers and Red Army Soldiers Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 319 Peasants mutual assistance committees in Gomel province and the districts of Bobruisk, Gomel, Mogilev and Rechitsa
Fond 375 Gomel District Land Administration
Fond 428 Administrative Department of Gomel Province Executive Committee
Fond 433 Gomel Province Council of Trade Unions
Fond 1171 Demyanki Village Council of Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 1174, Opis 2 Gomel Region Council of Workers’ Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 1408 Gomel Province Economic Council of the USSR Council of People’s Commissars
Fond 2830 Danilovichi Village Council of Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 2832 Sherstin Village Council of Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 3149 Chebotovichi Village Council of Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 3168 Glazovka Village Council of Deputies and Executive Committee/td>

Name, alphabetical

Fond 80 Gomel Province Summary Court
Fond 443 Gomel District Summary Court
Fond 1174, Opis 2  Gomel Region Council of Workers’ Deputies and Executive Committee
Fond 126 Trade unions of agriculture and forest workers in Gomel province and the districts of Gomel and Rechitsa
Fond 1721 Land commissions in Gomel province

Chronological index

Fond 41 Rechitsa District Military Commissariat and rural military commissariats in Rechitsa district, Gomel province
Fond 126 Trade unions of agriculture and forest workers in Gomel province and the districts of Gomel and Rechitsa
Fond 142 Finance Department of Gomel District Executive Committee
Fond 319 Peasants mutual assistance committees in Gomel province and the districts of Bobruisk, Gomel, Mogilev and Rechitsa
Fond 855 Finance Department of Rogachev District Executive Committee
Fond 989 Finance Department of Buda-Koshelevo District Executive Committee
Fond 1021 Rogachev District Military Commissariat and rural military commissariats in Rogachev district, Gomel province
Fond 1394 Finance Department of Terekhovo District Executive Committee
Fond 2259-OAF Factory and workshop schools at the Gomel Region Administration of Manpower Reserves, 1944 – 1955, Gomel

Multi-fond indexes to inventories

Personnel of local authorities (F.9, F.61, F.208, F.296, F.329, F.466, F.532, F.650,F.782, F.882, F.1023, F.1067, F.1174, F.1175, F.1299, F.2254-ОАF, F.2388)

Personnel of financial, credit and insurance institutions (F.84, F.110, F.111, F.136, F.142, F.178, F.225, F.320, F.1040, F.1042, F.1043, F.1046, F.1179, F.1225, F.2978)

Personnel of industrial authorities and enterprises (F.1, F.10, F.23, F.71, F.47, F.97, F.169, F.170, F.180, F.361, F.370, F.417, F.456, F.663, F.700, F.715, F.738, F.1032, F.1219, F.1227, F.1915, F.2088, F.2739, F.3313, F.3326)

Personnel of transport and communication institutions (F.373, F.385, F.991, F.1075, F.1142, F.1950, F.1951)

Personnel of trade institutions (F.58, F.106, F.109, F.356, F.745, F.1058, F.1629, F.1693, F.1726, F.1862)

Personnel of logistics, procurement, sales and consumer’s cooperation (F.20, F.25, F.27, F.119, F.215, F.1874, F.1910, F.2861, F.2862, F.2974, F.3112, F.3325)

Personnel of housing and communal services (F.26, F.314, F.358, F.401, F.916, F.1206, F.2058)

Personnel of health care institutions (F.38,F.14, F.301, F.306, F.997, F.1213, F.1876, F.1948, F.2971, F.3332, F.3654)

Personnel of labour and social welfare institutions (F.19, F.102, F.252, F.851, F.1073)

Personnel of judicial and legal institutions (F.62, F.76, F.158, F.176, F.227, F.350, F.563, F.1228)

Indexes to records

Fond-specific index

Fond 373 Chronological index to orders and directives by the People’s Commissariat of Communication Lines of the USSR, RSFSR, Administration of Western Railways 1919-1926
Fond 703 Chronological index to orders by the People’s Commissariat of Communication Lines of the USSR 1935-1940

Multi-fond index

Streets in Gomel, 1919-1995. Alphabetical index
History of the pharmaceutical business in records of the State Archives of Gomel Region, 1922-1941; 1943-1995. Index to types of records
Religious priests in Gomel Region, 1945-1959. Name index
Family lists of residents in localities of Bartolomeevo selsovet, Vetka district, Gomel region who resettled after the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. Name, geographical index

System of archive catalogues

Paper-based catalogues – 133 777 cards

Systematic catalogue 121 328 cards
Catalogue on the history of institutions 9 084 cards
Catalogue on the administrative and territorial division 2 518 cards
Name catalogue 847 cards

Electronic catalogues – 97 235 cards

Electronic systematic catalogue 43 036 cards
Electronic systematic catalogue of documents from the period of the Nazi occupation of Gomel Region, 1941-1944 364 cards
Electronic catalogue on the history of institutions 2 634 cards
Electronic сatalogue on the administrative and territorial division 1 846 cards
Electronic personnel catalogue 48 119 cards
Electronic name catalogue 1 236 cards

Specialized card catalogues


Citizens who returned home after the Second World War 1941-1945
Name index to citizens awarded the Maternity Medal
Name index to citizens awarded the Veteran of Labour Medal

Survey of records

Activities of military commissariats in Gomel district, 1919-1923

Subject lists

History of the Gomel Regional Construction Trust
Cultural life in Gomel after the Great Patriotic War
Gomel during the Occupation
History of religious institutions in Gomel region
History of Gomel police
Liberation of Belarus from the Nazi occupiers

Subject databases

Household books – 11 319 records
Personal files – 38 584 records

Guides

State Archives of Gomel and Mogilev Regions. Directory 1917-1941. Minsk, 1970

The State Archives of Gomel Region. Guidebook. Minsk, 2009

Information and reference materials

1 382 items

Reference library

4 531 items
1 060 sets of newspapers and journals