State Archives of Public Organizations of Grodno Region
Finding aids
Number of inventories (opisi) — 2 992
Internal fond-specific indexes
Chronological index to the Communist Party conferences, plenary meetings, sessions of the Party organization in Grodno Region 1946-1991
| Fond 1 | Grodno Region Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, opis 1 |
Catalogues
| TOTAL number of index cards, including | 182 335 cards |
| Systematic catalogue | 113 199 cards |
| Thematic traditional catalogs | 3 512 cards |
| Catalogue on the history of records-creating organizations | 66 cards |
| Systematic catalogue | 18 327 cards |
| Subject catalogue: School reconstruction in Belarus, 1939-1941 |
262 cards |
| The Russian Orthodox Church, 1939–1941, 1944–1991 | 129 cards |
| History of the Jews in Belarus, 1939–1941 | 2 238 cards |
| Activities of law-enforcement agencies in the regions of Bialystok and Grodno , 1939 – 1941, 1944 – 1991 | 192 cards |
| Name catalogue on VLKSM members | 30 158 cards |
| Subject catalogue on the first secretaries of the Grodno regional committee and district committees of the Communist Party of Belarus | 1 228 cards |
Specialized card catalogues
Personal (alphabetical) index to members of the Communist Party of Belarus
Members of the Communist Party of Western Belarus
Communists repressed during the years of J. Stalin’s cult of personality
Reminiscences by participants in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 and the postwar
economic restoration and development
Photographs
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
2 495 volumes
Subject lists
880 years of Grodno
70 years since the liberation of Grodno from the Nazi invaders
The reunification. 17 September 1939 – June 1941
History of Western Belarus. 1919-1939
On the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
Memorials of the Great Patriotic War in Belarus 1944-1991
Belarusian emigration in the late 19th – 20th centuries, resettlement movement
in Belarus, participation of the BSSR citizens in the development of
under-populated and remote regions in the USSR after 1917
Belarusian-Polish relations in 1919-1953
The first elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the BSSR 24 March 1940
History of the Partisan movement in Grodno Region. 1941-1943
The Jews in Belarus during the Second World War. 1939-1945
Collections of published documents
Grodno Region on the eve of and during the Great Patriotic War 1939-1945
(from the documents of the Grodno archives), to the 60th anniversary of the
Great Victory
Reunification (to the 75th anniversary of the reunion of Western Belarus and the
Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, BSSR)
Grodno Region: Soviet Period, 1944-1991 (to the 75th anniversary of the foundation of Grodno Region)
Guides
Information and reference materials
388 items
Reference library
531 items
The Library’s book collection includes the Belarusian Encyclopaedia in 18 volumes, dictionaries, directories, collections of published documents, the juridical and archival literature, papers of congresses and conferences, the Complete Collected Works of V. I. Lenin in 55 volumes, essays on the history of regional communist party organizations in Russia, Belarus, Grodno, books on the history of the Great Patriotic War, the Pamyat (Memory) series of documented chronicles of districts and towns in Grodno Region, the Chronicle of Berestavitsa Region, popular scientific editions on the history of militia and police in Grodno Region, Grodno Yanka Kupala State University, etc. The Library’s newspaper and magazine collection includes annual series of central, regional and district editions from the period from 1949 to present.