Zonal State Archives in Rechitsa

Finding aids

Number of inventories (opisi) — 1 520

Index to fond sheets (by branch) – 875 cards

Multi-fond indexes:

to personnel records,

to notarial records.

Catalogues

Traditional systematic catalogue 11 950 cards
Traditional catalogue on the history of administrative-territorial division 585 cards
Electronic systematic catalogue 21 064 cards
Electronic systematic catalogue of personal fonds 1027 cards
Electronic subject catalogue on the history of administrative and territorial division 7 209 cards
Database «Household Books» 5 832 cards
Electronic subject catalog «Allocation of land plots for the construction of garages» 87 cards
Electronic subject catalog «Providing citizens with a housing quota» 55 cards

Specialized card catalogues

Resolutions by the Rechitsa Town and District Executive Committees on the distribution of land plots for building garages

Resolutions by the Rechitsa Town and District Executive Committees on the distribution of housing

Guides

Guide to Archival Holdings (1943-2010). Rechitsa, 2012

Short directory “Personnel Records at the Local State Archives in Rechitsa, 1943-2010”. Rechitsa, 2012

Indexes

Geographical index to household books. Rechitsa, 2021 (Docx, 400 Kb)

Collections of published documents

The history of enterprises in Rechitsa District: archival documents. 1943-1955. Rechitsa, 2013

The history of enterprises in Rechitsa District: archival documents. 1956-1968. Rechitsa, 2019 (RAR)

Restoration and development of agriculture in Rechitsa, Loev, Bragin and Khoiniki districts: archival documents. 1943-1950. Rechitsa, 2021 (Docx)

“History of the development of industrial enterprises in the Rechitsa region: evidence from archival documents. 1969–1982.” (issue 3). Rechitsa, 2023

Reference library

758 items

The library collection of the archive consists of encyclopedias, reference books, collections of decrees of the governments of the USSR, RSFSR, BSSR, and the Republic of Belarus; history of Belarus («Our History: National Archive of the Republic of Belarus. 1927–2007»), history of the Great Patriotic War («On the Eve: Western Special Military District. End of 1939–1941», «Memory of Belarus», «History of the National partisan movement in Belarus during the war»); history of natural monuments of Belarus; history of the Great October Socialist Revolution; collections of documents on the restoration of the rights of victims during the repressions of the 20-80s; list of scientific and technical documents of the USSR; literature containing information about the development of archival science, about the state archives of the Republic of Belarus, the BSSR, the USSR and their documents; literature on archeography («Belarusian archeography») and heraldry («Armorial of the Belarusian gentry»); history of the Orthodox Church in the Vitebsk region; correspondence of M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky with scientists of Ukraine and other interesting scientific works; calendars of significant and memorable dates in Belarus; republican programs in the field of development of archiving and record keeping.

The library also includes books on linguistics, culture, history of Russia, the USSR, the BSSR and the CIS countries, guides to the funds of state archives, and regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Belarus.