State Archives of Brest Region

Finding aids

Number of inventories (opisi) — 3 086

Multi-fond indexes to records

Religious institutions in Polesie Province
Land tenure and land management in Polesie Province

Indexes to records within a fond (record group)

Subject indexes

Fond 1 Polesie Voevodstvo Administration
Fond 2 Brest Povet Starostvo
Fond 3 Kobrin Povet Starostvo
Fond 4 Pruzhany Povet Starostvo
Fond 26 Gmina boards in Brest povet
Fond 28 Gmina boards in Pruzhany povet
Fond 45 Gmina boards in Kobrin povet
Fond 53 District State Control Chamber in Polesie and Volhynia Voevodstvos
Fond 58 Cooperatives and associations of commerce, industry and agriculture in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 59 Board of Trustees of Brest School District
Fond 60 Polesie District Land Administration
Fond 67 Command Staff of the 9th District Corps in Brest
Fond 68 Brest Nonresident Division of the Prosecutor’s Office of Pinsk District Court
Fond 69 Brest Nonresident Branch of Pinsk District Court
Fond 93 Brest Povet Commandant’s Office of the State Police
Fond 94 Pruzhany Povet Commandant’s Office of the State Police
Fond 98 Concentration camp at Bereza Kartuskaia under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland
Fond 105 Trade unions and other labour associations in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 115 Youth public organizations in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 128 Collective farms in Brest district, Brest region
Fond 137 Collective farms in Domachevo district, Brest region
Fond 195 Brest District Administration
Fond 201 Brest Town Administration
Fond 263 Agricultural unions, committees and associations in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 268 Militarized organizations in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 310 Povet school inspectorates in the Brest school district
Fond 318 Gmina boards in Kossovo povet
Fond 350 State Taxes and Payments Administration at the Ministry of Finance of Poland
Fond 370 Boards of Jewish religious gminas in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 372 Povet land boards in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 390 Women’s social organizations in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 493 District election commissions for election to the Seim and Senat of Poland 1922, 1928, 1930, 1935, 1938 in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 650 Collection of personnel records for the institutions and enterprises in the town of Brest and the districts of Brest, Zhabinka, Kamenets, Malorita and Vysokoe in Brest Region
Fond 661 Collective farms in Zhabinka district, Brest region
Fond 671 Gmina boards in Baranovichi povet, Novogrudok voevodstvo
Fond 783 Brest Town Council
Fond 786 Department of Finance at Brest City Executive Committee
Fond 793 Brest Region Court
Fond 798 Department of Local Industry at Brest Region Executive Committee
Fond 815 Brest Region Executive Committee
Fond 835 Zhabinka District Executive Committee
Fond 851 Domachevo District Executive Committee
Fond 993 Brest District Executive Committee
Fond 1034 Brest State Pedagogical Institute named after A.Pushkin
Fond 1059 Kamenets District Executive Committee
Fond 1065 Vysokoe District Executive Committee
Fond 1080 Planning Commission at Brest District Executive Committee
Fond 1083 Planning Commission at Malorita District Executive Committee
Fond 1084 Malorita District Executive Committee
Fond 1096 Committee for Economics and Market Relations at Brest Region Executive Committee
Fond 1121 Department of Trade, Catering and Consumer Goods at Brest Region Executive Committee
Fond 1156 Collective farms in Kamenets district, Brest region
Fond 1200 Collective farms in Vysokoe district, Brest region
Fond 1301 Department of Finance at Malorita District Executive Committee
Fond 1445 Collective farms in Malorita district, Brest region
Fond 1583 Brest regional office of the State Bank of the Belarusian republic-level office of the State Bank of the USSR
Fond 2001 Pinsk Povet Starostvo
Fond 2002 Luninets Povet Starostvo
Fond 2004 Drogichin Povet Starostvo
Fond 2005 Pinsk Town Administration
Fond 2011 Gmina boards in Drogichin povet
Fond 2014 Gmina boards in Luninets povet
Fond 2025 Pinsk Povet Commandant’s Office of the State Police
Fond 2026 Luninets Povet Commandant’s Office of the State Police
Fond 2027 Drogichin Povet Commandant’s Office of the State Police
Fond 2030 Gmina boards in Stolin povet
Fond 2031 Pinsk District Court of the Vilnius Appeal Court
Fond 2032 Pinsk Magistrate’s Court of the 1st District
Fond 2035 Luninets Magistrate’s Court of the 4th District
Fond 2042 Procurator’s Office of the Pinsk District Court
Fond 2059 Polesie Orthodox Ecclesiastical Consistory
Fond 2065 Labour Inspectorate of the 37the District
Fond 2120 Pinsk Okrug Commissariat
Fond 2135 Pinsk Town Administration
Fond 2156 Charity, cultural and educational institutions and associations in Polesie voevodstvo
Fond 2295 District heads in Pinsk povet

Geographical indexes

Fond 1 Polesie Voevodstvo Administration
Fond 6 Pruzhany Town Administration
Fond 50 Brest State Chamber
Fond 53 State Control Chamber for Polesie and Volhynia Voevodstvos
Fond 59 Board of Trustees of Brest School District
Fond 60 Polesie Land Administration
Fond 94 Pruzhany Povet Commandant’s Office of State Police
Fond 210 Council for Religions and Nationalities at Brest Region Executive Committee
Fond 372 Povet Land Administration of Polesie Voevodstvo
Fond 514 Brest regional commission for assistance to the Extraordinary State Commission on Investigation of Nazi Crimes and Damage in Brest Region
Fond 2025 Pinsk Povet Commandant’s Office of the State Police
Fond 2027 Drogichin Povet Commandant’s Office of the State Police
Fond 2031 Pinsk District Court
Fond 2059 Polesie Orthodox Ecclesiastical Consistory
Fond 2734 Pinsk East District Administration
Fond 2735 Pinsk West District Administration
Fond 2736 Zhabinka District Administration
Fond 2760 2009 census data for Brest Region

Name indexes

Fond 5 Brest Town Administration
Fond 50 Brest State Chamber
Fond 69 Brest Nonresident Branch of Pinsk District Court
Fond 2005 Pinsk Town Administration

Internal inventories

Fond 5 Brest Town Administration — registers of Brest residents, 1920-1939
Fonds 354, 355 People’s Court of the Moskovski and Leninski districts in Brest — sentences, decisions, rulings, 1978-1988
Fond 385 Brest State Notary’s Office — certificates of heirship, 1968-1977
Fond 2005 Pinsk Town Administration — registers of Pinsk residents, 1920-1939

Catalogues

Systematic catalogue (Polish period) 77 230 cards
Systematic catalogue (Nazi occupation period) 3 337 cards
Systematic catalogue (Soviet and post-Soviet periods) 138 267 cards
Systematic catalogue (fonds of the former Party Archives) 33 477 cards
Electronic systematic catalogue 42 371 cards
Catalogue on the history of institutions 7 379 cards
Electronic catalogue on the history of institutions 223 cards
Catalogue on the administrative and territorial division 1 726 cards
Electronic сatalogue on the administrative and territorial division 1 153 cards
Name catalogue 8 906 cards
Electronic name catalogue 13 297 cards
Geographical catalogue 3 540 cards
Electronic geographical catalogue 1872 cards

Specialized card catalogues

Alphabetical card index 1919-1939, 1941-1944
Alphabetical card index to records of the Nazi Occupation period
Personal (alphabetical) card index to members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (KPSS) and the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (VLKSM) 1939-1941, 1944-1991
Persons who were repressed and dispossessed of property
Persons who resettled from Poland to Brest region and from Brest region to Poland in the 1940s-1950s
Persons deported from Brest region to Germany in WWII 1941-1944
Persons who returned from German captivity, 1945
Persons resettled by German authorities from the eastern parts of the USSR into Baranovichi region and the town of Brest, 1941-1944
Employees in the reconstruction of the Dnieper-Bug Canal, 1944-1947
Employees in transport and water administration in Polesie voevodstvo, 1919-1939

Surveys of records

The development of industry in Polesie voevodstvo, 1921-1939
Polesie Voevodstvo Administration
Brest Povet Starostvo
Board of Trustees of Polesie School District
Polesie District Land Administration
Tax policy of Poland in Western Belarus
The state of public health in Polesie voevodstvo, 1921-1939
Provisional administrations in the western areas of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
Forestry in Polesie voevodstvo, 1920-1939
Public education in Polesie voevodstvo, 1921-1939
Land reclamation in Polesie region, 1920-1939
Orthodox Church in Polesie region in the interwar period
Records of the Pinsk Roman Catholic Eparchy at the State Archives of Brest Region
Records of the Brest Town Council and Magistrate in the interwar period as a historical source
The development of industry in Brest region, 1945-1965

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

Communist Party of Belarus (KPB) – 1 206 volumes
Leninist Young Communist League of Belarus (LKSMB) – 294 volumes

Guides

The State Archives of Brest and Grodno Regions, the Branch of the State Archives of Minsk Region in Molodechno. Directory 1919-1939. Minsk, 1969

The State Archives of Brest Region. Guide to holdings 1919-1939. Brest, 2010

The State Archives of Brest Region. Guide to holdings 1939-2014. Brest, 2015
(Rar Pdf, 5 Mb)

Information and reference materials

1 370 items

Refence library

20 987 items