The National Archives of the Republic of Belarus introduces an electronic database of Belarusian villages burnt during the Great Patriotic War

28 April 2011, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus received the software for the Electronic Database of Belarusian Villages Burnt during the Great Patriotic War. The database has been developed by the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics by request of the Belarusian Peace Foundation which coordinates an international project entitled Enhancing the Status of the Survivors of the Burnt Villages of Belarus.

The electronic database includes the following data:
1. Name of locality;
2. Current administrative division;
3. Military administrative subordination;
4. Number of households and population before the war;
5. Number of destroyed households and population;
6. Date of destruction;
7. Finding aids and data sources (archives, fonds, inventory, file, literature).

The second part of the database includes scanned archive documents, photographs, survivor’s recollections of the tragedy in each village.

The database makes possible not only to search for information but also to conduct analysis on the number of burnt villages by district, region, year of destruction.