Zonal State Archives in Rechitsa
Description of holdings
Amount of holdings: 875 fonds, 177 951 items
Chronological scope: from 1943 to the present; separate records from 1926-1927
Geographical coverage:
- Bragin, Loev, Rechitsa and Khoiniki districts of the Gomel region
- abolished Vasilevichi and Komarin districts of the Gomel region
Contents:
The majority of the archive’s funds are made up of documents from state authorities and administration (district, city and rural Councils of Deputies), reflecting the socio-political life and socio-economic development of the regions in the archive acquisition zone.
The funds of district, city and rural Councils of Deputies contain information on the activities of commissions to record the damage caused by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War, as well as on the restoration of the national economy in the post-war years.
Documents from the funds of financial and planning departments, statistics departments reveal the system and organization of planning, financing, accounting and reporting.
The funds of agricultural and forestry institutions contain information on the creation, reorganization and activities of collective farms, state farms, and forestry enterprises.
The archive contains funds of institutions and industrial enterprises, the documents of which reflect the development of light, food, oil and other industries.
In the collection of digital copies as originals of documents of the Extraordinary State Commission for the establishment and investigation of the atrocities of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices and the damage they caused to citizens, collective farms (kolkhozes), public organizations, state enterprises and institutions of the USSR (ChGK) according to Braginsky, The Vasilevichsky, Komarinsky, Loevsky, Rechitsa, Rogachevsky, Khoiniki districts of the BSSR, transferred from the State Archives of the Russian Federation, contain documents about the facts of the atrocities of the Nazi invaders – protocols of interviews with victims, witnesses, statements of citizens, medical expert opinions, photographs, letters from Soviet people, stolen to Germany, lists of those executed and other evidence.
The formation of the health care and social security system in the post-war period can be traced through the documents of the funds of the health departments, social security departments of district executive committees and district hospitals.
The funds of public education institutions contain information on the development and improvement of educational and methodological work of educational institutions.
Information about the work of cultural and educational institutions and the media is available in the documents of cultural foundations and newspaper editorial offices.
The archive stores documents of personal origin containing historical and biographical information about famous people of the region: veterans of the Great Patriotic War – E.A. Adamovich, N.A. Belune, D.F. Bonadyke, I.A. Gavrilenko, V.L. Deykune, O.F. Dolgushova, P.P. Zhuravleve, P.Ya. Kolesnikov, A.V. Kuzmenkov, V.M. Lutsenko, I.D. Polyakov, G.V. Samuseve, N.P. Rodzanov, A.M. Yankovic, the Kazachuk, Udovenko families, Hero of the Soviet Union D.D. Valentika; liquidator of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant V.I. Ignatenko; Honored Worker of Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus A.A. Konyakine; the Mitrakhovich family of doctors; Honored Doctor of the BSSR P.M. Hlusse; ceramic artist E.E. Shetikhine.