Zonal State Archives in Glubokoe
Description of holdings
Amount of holdings: 950 fonds, 327 874 items
Chronological scope: 1918-1920, 1939-1941, from 1944 to the present
Geographical coverage:
- abolished Vidzy, Disna and Dunilovichi districts of the abolished Polotsk and later Molodechno regions
- abolished Begoml district of the Minsk region
- abolished Plisa district of the abolished Polotsk and later Molodechno regions, and of the Vitebsk region
- Braslav, Glubokoe, Dokshitsy, Miory, Postavy and Sharkovshchina districts of the Vitebsk region
Contents:
The main bulk of the archive’s holdings are the documents created by the district and town deputies’ councils and their divisions, various inspections, village councils, collective and state farms, records of courts, prosecutor’s, labour organizations, statistical institutions, industrial and educational agencies.
Records of the district executive committees and village councils contain documents on the economic damage attributable to the Nazi occupation in WWII and the postwar restoration of national economics; materials concerning the developments in industry, transportation, communication, agriculture, construction, trade, catering, and consumer services.
Records of agricultural and forestry institutions throw light on the collectivization of agriculture and the organization of state farms, agricultural artels and communes, and machine-&-tractor stations; these contain data on land nationalization, land tenure, forest management and timber purchasing, and more.
The fonds of courts, prosecutor’s and notary offices contain courts decisions in civil and criminal cases, agreements of sale, gift and building, etc.
The fonds of educational agencies and institutions, health institutions, and the culture divisions at the district executive committees illuminate the issues of public education, culture, health care, and sports.
The archive contains documents of personal origin of honored people: Heroes of Socialist Labor Klimenka M.A., Pugovko L.K.; Honored Teachers of the BSSR Bolshakova N.P., Dyagileva E.M., Eromenok N.I., Kramich N.P., Pavlovich A.U.; teacher of the Mamay seven-year school, local historian A.A. Sobolevsky; laureates of the State Prize of the BSSR Shinkevich V.K., State Prize of the USSR Yarmolovich M.A.; Honorary Worker of the Belarusian Energy System Radevich P.Ya.; Honorary Archivists of Belarus Molchun L.A., Roslevich Z.N.; poets Borovik M.Ya., Goronovich V.G., Zagurskaya G.P., Zakharevich N.M.; local historians Borovik N.A., Bunto I.V., Lyaskovsky V.K., Plavinsky G.A.; Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2000), Doctor of Biological Sciences (1997), Professor (1997) Moiseenka A.G.; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor V.P. Samsonov; Candidate of Economic Sciences, Honored Worker of Agriculture of the BSSR, Honorary Citizen of the Glubokoye District Sesitsky A.P.; engineer of forestry crops of the Glubokoe forestry, Honorary citizen of the Glubokoe district Lomako V.A.; documents of participants in the Great Patriotic War: Berezovsky V.I., Demyanchik I.I., Roslevich I.G., Savitsky A.F., Svirko A.D., Tesyul L.U., Shulga G.N., Yurgel V. .L.