State Archives of Public Organizations of Grodno Region

Historical background

The Archives was founded in September 1947 as the Party Archives at the Grodno Region Communist Party Committee.

From August 1991 to January 1992 the Archives did not function according to Resoulution of the Supreme Council of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic “On temporary interruption of activities of the Communist Party of Belarus and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the territory of Belarus”. 

In February 1992, the Archives resumed its work as the division of public organizations at the State Archives of Grodno Region.

On June 15, 1992 it was reorganized as the Branch of the State Archives of Grodno Region in Grodno.

On November 26, 1996 it received its present name of the State Archives of Public Organizations of Grodno Region.