National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno

Finding aids

Number of inventories (opisi) — 2 189

Multi-fond indexes to inventories

Subject

Board of directors and inspectors of public schools (fonds 38, 839, 840, 841, 842, 1111, 1703)
Magistrates (fonds 583, 676, 681, 875, 979, 1342, 1347, 1372)
Town councils and boards (fonds 125, 288, 492, 873, 874, 1046, 1192, 1562, 1563, 1564)
Town and district police departments (fonds 77, 78, 117, 336, 674, 703, 704, 714, 1233, 1558, 1567)
Military chiefs (fonds 970, 1091, 1159, 1624, 1669, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1719)

Name

Tax inspectors in Grodno district (fonds 304, 305)
Tax inspectors in Slonim district (fonds 307, 308)
Volost (rural district) courts in the province of Grodno and partly Vilnius province (51 fonds)

Geographical

District land commissions (fonds 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 1535)

Educational institutions

Board of directors and inspectors of public schools (fonds 38, 839, 840, 841, 842, 1111, 1703)

Orthodox and Catholic churches, synagogues, mosques

Catholic deaneries (fonds 880, 886, 890, 892, 904, 906, 915, 918, 919, 920, 923, 924, 930, 1038, 1803, 1812)
Orthodox deaneries (fonds 871, 887, 891, 922, 992, 1031, 1039, 1477, 1797, 1813, 1814, 1815)
Consistories (fonds 561, 1621, 1772)
Parish registers of Orthodox churches
Parish registers of Catholic churches
Parish registers of synagogues in Grodno, the Brest district of Grodno province, the Lida and Disna districts of Vilnius province (17 fonds)
Parish registers of mosques in the Lida and Oshmiany districts of Vilnius province (fonds 1824, 1834)
Parish registers of Old-Believers, Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed churches in the Kobrin, Volkovysk and Brest districts of Grodno province, the Oshmiany district of Vilnius province (fonds 1786, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1872 )

Geographical

Orthodox parishes in the provinces of Grodno and Vilnius (districts of Vileika, Disna and Lida)
Catholic parishes (parafia) in the provinces of Grodno and Vilnius (districts of Disna, Lida and Oshmiany)

Fond-specific indexes to inventories

Subject, geographical, name

Fond 1 Chancellery of the Governor of Grodno
Fond 2 Grodno Province Administration
Fond 6 Grodno Office for Civil Affairs of the Crown Prince, Chief Commander of the Lithuanian Special Corps
Fond 8 Construction Division of the Grodno Province Administration
Fond 9 Medical Division of the Grodno Province Administration
Fond 10 Grodno Province Department of Peasant Affairs
Fond 11 Grodno Province Drawing Commission
Fond 27 Grodno Province Division of the State Bank
Fond 30 Grodno Province Excise Office
Fond 32 Grodno Province Land Commission
Fond 329 Veterinary Division of the Grodno Province Administration

Subject, geographical

Fond 12 Grodno Province Food Commission
Fond 13 Grodno Province Administrative Committee
Fond 14 Grodno Province Statistics Committee
Fond 15 Grodno Province Board of Public Assistance
Fond 17 Grodno Province Office for Town Affairs
Fond 18 Grodno Province Office
Fond 23 Grodno Province Control Chamber
Fond 24 Grodno Province State Chamber
Fond 29 Grodno Division of the Peasant Land Bank
Fond 31 Grodno Province Department of Land and State Property
Fond 34 Grodono District Court
Fond 35 Public Prosecutor of Grodno District Court
Fond 44 Grodno Province Special Department of Zemstvo Duties
Fond 99 Administration of the Grodno Post-Telegraph District

Name, geographical

Fond 7 Bialystok Office for Civil Affairs of the Crown Prince, Chief Commander of the Lithuanian Special Corps
Fond 19 Grodno Province Committee for Forest Protection
Fond 96 Grodno Province Committee for Landlords’ Estate Inventories
Fond 80 Bialystok District Land Commission
Fond 81 Belsk District Land Commission
Fond 88 Sokolka District Land Commission
Fond 276 Office of the Interim Governor-General of Bialystok and Bialystok District
Fond 332 Assembly of the Nobility of Grodno Province

Subject

Fond 108 Administration of Belovezhskaia Pushcha
Fond 525 Belarusian Orthodox Eparchy

Subject, name

Fond 1663 The Slizen Family
Fond 1664 The Bykhovets Family

Name

Fond 107 Grodno District Military Service Office — opis 1
Fond 867 Belsk District Military Service Office — opis 1
Fond 869 Volkovysk District Military Service Office — opis 2
Fond 1022 Slonim District Military Service Office — opis 2

Geographical

Fond 97 Grodno Province Office for Church Construction

Fond-specific indexes to records

Name

Fond 1 Chancellery of the Governor of Grodno — opis 18
Fond 26 Grodno Province Board of Treasury — opis 1, file 40
Fond 89 Marshal of the Nobility of Brest District
Fond 90 Marshal of the Nobility of Belsk District
Fond 91 Marshal of the Nobility of Volkovysk District
Fond 92 Marshal of the Nobility of Grodno District (RAR Excel, 383 Кb)
Fond 100 Grodno Province Commission for General Census — opis 1, files 196, 197
Fond 309 Tax Inspector for Pruzhany District
Fond 312 Tax Inspector for Brest District
Fond 313 Tax Inspector for Kobrin District
Fond 314 Tax Inspector for Volkovysk District
Fond 332 Grodno Assembly of the Nobility
Fond 1021 Grodno Province Special Commission for Jewish Census — opis 1, file 1
Fond 1571 Tax Inspector for Lida District
Fond 1582 Marshal of the Nobility of Slonim District
Fond 1868 Tax Inspector for Sokolka District
Fond 1884 Collection of passport books of residents of the Russian Empire

Geographical

Fond 24 Grodno Province State Chamber (Census Records) — opis 7, 8, 12, 15

Maps, plans

Fond 11 Grodno Province Drawing Office
opis 3, files 45а-52
opis 7, files 110-113
opis 12, file 2
opis 16, file 1
Fond 31 Grodno Province Department of Land and State Property
opis 1, files 1533, 1537

Catalogues

Systematic catalogue 170 825 cards
Name catalogue 7 093 cards

Specialized card catalogues

Autographs of famous people, 18th-20th cc.
1863-1864 Uprising
Heraldry and sphragistics

Subject surveys

Social upheaval and revolutionary situation in the Grodno province in the late 1850s and early 1860s
History of the development of agriculture in the Grodno province in 1830-1914
History of theatre in the Grodno province in the 19th to early 21st centuries
History of the town construction, architecture and the protection of historical monuments in the Grodno province in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Records and documents on the history of the revolutionary Populist movement in the 1870s
History of the Grodno Tobacco Factory
Records and documents on the history of the population migration in the Grodno province

Automated databases

Index to parishes in the provinces of Grodno and Vilnius
Catalogue of literature on the history, geography and culture of Grodno region

Guides

The Central State Historical Archives of the Belarusian SSR in Grodno. Guide. Minsk, 1965

The National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno. Guidebook. Grodno, 2016

Alphabetical indexes

Parish registers of Catholic churches held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno (XLSX, 69 Кb)
Parish registers of Orthodox churches held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno (XLSX, 63 Кb)
Parish registers of synagogues held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno (XLSX, 17 Кb)
Parish registers of mosques held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno (XLSX, 13 Кb)
Parish registers of Evangelical Christian churches held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno (XLSX, 17 Кb)
Parish registers of Old-Believers churches held at the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno (XLSX, 12 Кb)

Localities by Orthodox parishes in Grodno province
Localities by Orthodox parishes of Vileika, Disna and Lida districts in Vilnius province, Vladimir district in Volhynia province
Localities by Catholic parishes of Disna, Lida and Oshmiany districts in Vilnius province
Localities by Catholic parishes in Grodno province

Information and reference materials

1 549 items

Reference library

11 818 books, 3 483 newspapers and journals