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State Archives of Vitebsk Region
Finding aids
Number of inventories (opisi) — 10 912
Fond-specific indexes
State Bodies
| Fund 8 | Belinskaya Maria Sergeevna – People’s Artist of the BSSR Dorsky Iosif Lvovich – husband of Belinskaya M.S., theater figure, playwright, Honored Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 9–OAF | Party and state control bodies of the Vitebsk province |
| Fund 14 | Land administration of the executive committee of the Vitebsk provincial council of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies (Vitebsk provincial land administration), Vitebsk, Vitebsk province of the RSFSR (since 03.03.1924 – BSSR) |
| Fund 15 | Vitebsk provincial council of national economy (Vitebsk provincial council of national economy), Vitebsk, Vitebsk province of the Western region (since 13.09.1918 – Western Commune, since 01.01.1919 – BSSR, since 02.02.1919 – RSFSR, since 03.03.1924 – BSSR) |
| Fund 16 | Sheleg Anatoly Grigorievich – People’s Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 41 | Vitebsk Provincial Council of Trade Unions (Vitgubprofsovet) of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, Vitebsk, Vitebsk Province, BSSR (since 02.02.1919 – RSFSR, since 03.03.1924 – BSSR) |
| Fund 56–OAF | Vitebsk Provincial Council of Workers, Peasants, and Red Army Deputies and its Executive Committee (Vitgubispolkom) and its structural divisions, Vitebsk, Vitebsk Province, RSFSR (since 03.03.1924 – BSSR) |
| Fund 95 | Labor Department of the Executive Committee of the Vitebsk Provincial Council of Workers, peasant and Red Army deputies, Vitebsk city, Vitebsk province, RSFSR (since 03.03.1924 – BSSR) |
| Fund 104–OAF | Vitebsk district Council of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies and its executive committee and commissions, Vitebsk city, RSFSR |
| Fund 118–OAF | Vitebsk district Council of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies and its executive committee (Vitebsk district executive committee) and its structural subdivisions, Vitebsk city |
| Fund 123 | Financial department of the executive committee of the Vitebsk provincial Council of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies (since 10.1919 – Vitebsk provincial military revolutionary committee, since 12.1920 – executive committee of the Vitebsk provincial Council of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies) (Vittubfinotdel), Vitebsk |
| Fund 145 | Gorodok District Council of Workers, Peasants, and Red Army Deputies and its Executive Committee (Gorodok Executive Committee), Gorodok, Vitebsk Province |
| Fund 164–OAF | Artels of the City of Vitebsk and Vitebsk Region |
| Fund 253–OAF | Labor Collectives of the City of Vitebsk, Vitebsk Province, BSSR |
| Fund 327 | Khmelnitskaya Lyudmila Vladimirovna – Director of the Cultural Institution “Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk”, Editor-in-Chief of the Scientific Publications “Bulletin of the Marc Chagall Museum” and “Chagall Collection”, Historical and Popular Science Magazine “Vitebsk Scribe”, Historian, Local History Expert |
| Fund 330 | Gazin Dmitry Romanovich – Local History Expert |
| Fund 375 | Klimchuk Viktor Ignatyevich – Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus, Artistic Director of the Belarusian Theater “Lyalka” |
| Fund 391 | Zeilert Valentin Karlovich – museologist, teacher, excellent public education worker of the USSR and BSSR |
| Fund 399 | Shulman Arkady Lvovich – local historian, editor-in-chief of the magazine «Mishpokha» |
| Fund 406 | Podlipsky Arkady Mikhailovich – local historian, member of the Union of Journalists of Belarus |
| Fund 449 | Financial Department of the Executive Committee of the Vitebsk District Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies (Vitokrfo), Vitebsk |
| Fund 459 | Serikov Ivan Artemovich – Honored Cultural Figure of Belarus, choreographer |
| Fund 474 | Memus Alexander Iosifovich – artist, publicist, senior lecturer of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov. Memus Mikhail Alexandrovich – his son. Mogucha Irina Viktorovna – his wife, artist, member of the Belarusian Union of Artists |
| Fund 488 | Krot Zoya Karpovna – statesman and public figure, first Secretary of the Vitebsk Regional Committee of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Belarus (Vitebsk Regional Committee of the LKSMB), Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council of the Belarusian Union of Women, Head of the Social Protection Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee |
| Fund 498 | Dorofeev Anatoly Maksimovich – Candidate of Biological Sciences, Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus |
| Fund 540 | Pashkevich Nikifor Evdokimovich – Belarusian critic, literary scholar, writer, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Honored Cultural Worker of the BSSR |
| Fund 552 | Gumen Felix Fedorovich – watercolor artist, teacher, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR |
| Fund 554 | Gruznevich Viktor Mikhailovich – public figure, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Vitebsk Regional Organizational Structure of the Republican State-Public Association “Belarusian Society “Knowledge” |
| Fund 562 | Vitko Vladimir Ilyich – Belarusian painter, graphic artist, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR |
| Fund 571-OAF | Vitebsk District Council of Deputies. Vitebsk District Executive Committee, Vitebsk |
| Fund 573-OAF | “Organizations and enterprises of food supply, consumer cooperation, trade and public catering of the Vitebsk railway region and the North-West region of the West Dvina river water transport, operating in 1917–1941. on the territory of the Vitebsk province (from 17.07.1924 – Vitebsk district, from 26.07.1930 – BSSR, from 15.01.1938 – Vitebsk region) Western region (from 13.09.1918 – Western Commune, from 01.01.1919 – BSSR, from 02.02.1919 – RSFSR, from 03.03.1924 – BSSR)” |
| Fund 575 | Brueva Larisa Naumovna – head of the public association “Belarusian Republican Association “POSHUK” (OO BRA “POSHUK”), Vitebsk regional center for heroic and patriotic education of youth “POSHUK” (Center “POSHUK”) at the cultural institution “Vitebsk Regional Museum of the Hero of the Soviet Union M.F.Shmyreva”, Chairman of the Commission for the Perpetuation of the Memory of the Defenders of the Fatherland and Victims of Wars of the Vitebsk Regional Council of Veterans, Member of the Coordinating Council of the International Association of Public Search Organizations “People’s Memory of the Defenders of the Fatherland”, Veteran of the Search Movement |
| Fund 579 | Bukina Alla Aleksandrovna – Local History Expert, Chief Curator of the Funds of the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local History |
| Fund 598 | Lebedev Gennady Petrovich – Belarusian art historian, painter, local history expert |
| Fund 634 | Solovyov Alexander Aleksandrovich – Soviet and Belarusian avant-garde artist, theater artist, Honored Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 780 | Yezerishchensky District Council of Workers’ Deputies and its Executive Committee (Yezerishchensky District Executive Committee), urban settlement Ezerishche, Vitebsk region |
| Fund 795 | Pankov Nikolay Alekseevich – candidate of philological sciences, associate professor of the Russian literature department of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, compiler and editor of the magazine “Dialogue. Carnival. Chronotope” |
| Fund 803 | Boboriko (Kuznetsova-Boboriko) Maina Maksimovna – children’s writer, member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the BSSR, member of the Union of Writers of Belarus |
| Fund 969 | Movzon Arkady (Movshenzon Aron) Iosifovich – playwright, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR and the BSSR |
| Fund 972 | Tishechkin Nikolay Petrovich – Honored Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 982 | Vinogradov Viktor Nikonovich – rector of the Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute named after S.M. Kirov, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor |
| Fund 986 | Zhakov Mikhail Stepanovich – full member of the International Academy of Sciences of Higher Education, the Academy of Education of the Republic of Belarus and the Academy of Agrarian Education of the Russian Federation |
| Fund 1031 | Labor Inspectorate of the Executive Committee of the Vitebsk District Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies, Vitebsk, Vitebsk District |
| Fund 1073 | Ryabkin (Bereza) Alexander Yakovlevich – poet, participant in the Great Patriotic War |
| Fund 1074 | Medvedsky Evgeny Nikandrovich – Honored Doctor, Honored Worker of Higher School of the BSSR, Excellent Healthcare Worker |
| Fund 1120 | Ilyinsky Alexander Konstantinovich – People’s Artist of the USSR Logovskaya Elena Ivanovna – wife of Ilyinsky A.K., Honored Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 1537 | Shmakov Fedor Ivanovich – Honored Artist of the BSSR, People’s Artist of the BSSR, People’s Artist of the USSR, Laureate of the State Prize BSSR |
| Fund 1571 | Azi-Ays Sergei Ivanovich – participant in World War I, holder of the St. George Cross |
| Fund 1582 | Vitebsk Provincial Military Commissariat (Vitgubvoenkomat) of the District Military Commissariat of the Western Military District, Vitebsk |
| Fund 1731 | Klesova (Korypalova) Galina Ionovna – head of the culture department of the executive committee of the Vitebsk regional Council of People’s Deputies, honored worker of culture of the BSSR |
| Fund 1748 | Klikushin Grigory Filippovich – graphic artist, graphic artist, member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Belarus |
| Fund 1821 | Department of Management of the Executive Committee of the Vitebsk Provincial Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies (from 19.10.1919 – Vitebsk Provincial Military Revolutionary Committee, from 22.02.1921 – executive committee of the Vitebsk Provincial Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army deputies), Vitebsk, Vitebsk province, Western region (from 13.09.1918 – Western Commune, from 01.01.1919 – BSSR, from 02.02.1919 – RSFSR) |
| Fund 1967 | Committee on Agriculture and Food of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee (Vitebsk regional agricultural food committee), Vitebsk |
| Fund 2049 | Barsukov Igor Alekseevich – photographer, member of the public association “Belarusian Union of Designers” |
| Fund 2065 | Konopelko Anatoly Nikolaevich – teacher, poet, member of the Union of Belarusian Writers, associate professor of the Educational Institution “Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov”, excellent worker of education of the Republic of Belarus |
| Fund 2079 | Nosovsky Boris Isaakovich – composer, director, writer, head of the music department – conductor of the Belarusian State Order of the Red Banner of Labor Academic Drama Theater named after Yakub Kolas |
| Fund 2154 | Ryvkin Mikhail Stepanovich – candidate of pedagogical sciences, local historian |
| Fund 2156 | Kotovich Tatyana Viktorovna – doctor of art history, professor of the department of general history and world culture of the Educational Institution “Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov”, member of the public association “Belarusian Union of Theater Workers” |
| Fund 2173 | Zhigur Andrey Andreyevich – advertising artist, stage director of the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theater, Master of Arts |
| Fund 2184 | Rudenko Tatyana Alekseyevna – master of decorative and applied arts, member of the Belarusian Union of Artists Rudenko Yury Vasilyevich – husband of Rudenko T.A., master of decorative and applied arts, member of the Belarusian Union of Artists |
| Fund 2257 | Smeredinsky Vladimir Alekseevich – artist, participant of the Great Patriotic War |
| Fund 2258 | Okruzhnaya Svetlana Artemovna – People’s Artist of Belarus |
| Fund 2260 | Simanovich David Grigorievich – poet, prose writer, member of the Union of Belarusian Writers |
| Fund 2266 | Burakov Yakov Georgievich – artist, Honored Worker of Culture of the BSSR Rodzyalovskaya Elena Pavlovna – first wife of Burakov Ya.G., People’s Artist BSSR Meldukova Oktyabrina Frantsevna – second wife of Burakov Ya.G., Honored Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 2291 | Golubev Vladimir Aleksandrovich – astronomer, chairman of the Vitebsk branch of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodetic Society, member of the bureau of the youth section of the Central Council of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodetic Society, member of the Scientific and Methodological Council for Astronomy, associate professor of the department of methods of teaching physics and astronomy of the educational institution “Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov” |
| Fund 2295 | Dubov Georgy Savelyevich – People’s Artist of the BSSR Shashkina Tamara Grigoryevna – wife of Dubov G.S., Honored Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 2310 | Kichin Alexander Markovich – participant in the Great Patriotic War Kichin Iosif Markovich – brother of Kichin A.M., participant in the Great Patriotic War Kichina Berta Markovna is the sister of Kichin A.M., a biologist, candidate of biological sciences, dean of the faculty of natural sciences of the Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute named after S.M. Kirova Kichina Maria Meerovna – sister of Kichin A.M., biologist, candidate of biological sciences, associate professor of the department of biological and organic chemistry of the Vitebsk State Veterinary Institute Kichina Evgeniya Markovna – sister of Kichin A.M., art critic, employee of the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local History |
| Fund 2381 | Markina Galina Petrovna – People’s Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 2393 | Fedorovsky Matvey Lvovich – actor, teacher, Honored Artist of the BSSR |
| Fund 2420 | Kuleshov Vladimir Alekseevich – People’s Artist of the Republic of Belarus |
| Fund 2421 | Shakulov Grigory Loginovich – children’s writer, poet |
Communist Party of Belarus (CPB) Bodies
| Fund 6-p-OAF | Primary organizations of the Communist Party of Belarus of local government bodies of the Vitebsk region |
| Fund 75-p | Leonova Anna Nikiforovna – first secretary of the Oktyabrsky district committee of the Communist Party of Belarus of Vitebsk |
| Fund 124–p–OAF | Primary organizations of the Communist Party of Belarus of public education institutions of the Vitebsk region |
| Fund 177–p–OAF | Primary organizations of the Communist Party of Belarus of art, culture, press, science and research institutions of the Vitebsk region |
| Fund 496–p–OAF | Primary organizations of the Communist Party of Belarus of institutions of financing, crediting and state insurance |
Catalogues
| Total | 466 084 cards |
| Paper-based catalogues | 421 773 cards |
| Systematic catalogue | 259 426 cards |
| Catalogue on the history of institutions | 14 538 cards |
| Catalogue on the administrative and territorial division | 700 cards |
| Name catalogue | 1 761 cards |
| Personnel catalogue | 145 348 cards |
Electronic Catalogues
| Total | 50 195 cards |
| Systematic catalogue | 46 222 cards |
| Catalogue on the administrative and territorial division | 2 557cards |
| Name catalogue | 1 416 cards |
Specialized card catalogues
Lists of issues discussed at the plenary meetings, bureau and secretariat sessions of the Communist Party and Komsomol bodies, the meetings of Party and Komsomol activists
Fonds of the Communist Party regional and district committees at Vitebsk, Polotsk, Orsha, Lepel etc. for 1918-1941, 1944-1991 (2 726 lists)
Surveys of fonds
Vitebsk Arts College 1918-1932 (F. 837 )
Personal fonds of M.S.Ryvkin (F. 2154)
Personal fonds of А.А.Zhygura (F. 2173)
Fonds of the state and party control bodies active in the area of present-day
Vitebsk Region in 1918-1934 (Fonds 9-ОАФ, 156-п-ОАФ, 159-п, 160-п, 161-п, 1461,
10058-п, 10073-п, 10075-п-ОАФ, 10077-п, 10089-п, 10090-п, 10091-п, 10092-п,
10093-п, 10094-п, 10096-п, 10097-п, 10098-п, 10099-п, 10100-п, 10101-п, 10102-п,
10103-п, 10169-п)
Subject databases
Maps of provinces
Register of finding aids
Name lists
Reference library
Card catalogue of personnel records of liquidated organizations
Digital copies of inventories, files and records
Guides
The State Archives of Vitebsk Region and its Branch at Polotsk 1917-1941. Guidebook. Minsk, 1972
The State Archives of Vitebsk Region. Guidebook. 1917-2006. Vitebsk, 2011.
Information and reference materials
1 814 items
Reference library
16 880 items (13 509 books and brochures, 1 419 sets of journals and 1 952 sets of newspapers )