{"id":201843,"date":"2006-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?page_id=201843"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:08:25","slug":"state-archives-of-grodno-region-description-of-holdings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/welcome-to-the-archives-of-belarus-website\/archives-and-records-management-authorities-and-the-state-archives-network\/state-archival-service-of-grodno-region\/state-archives-of-grodno-region\/state-archives-of-grodno-region-description-of-holdings","title":{"rendered":"State Archives of Grodno Region. Description of holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\nContacts<\/a>
\r\nHistorical background<\/a>
\r\nFinding aids<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Description of holdings<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

Amount of holdings:<\/b> 1 745 fonds, 9 collections, 578 238 items<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Chronological scope:<\/b> from 1919 to the present<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Geographical coverage:<\/b> \r\n\r\n

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  • Western Belarus as part of Poland (certain areas) <\/li>\r\n
  • abolished Vasilishki, Zheludok, Porozovo, Skidel, and Sopotskin districts <\/li>\r\n
  • the town of Grodno and the Berestovitsa, Volkovysk, Grodno, Zelva, Mosty, Svisloch and\r\n Shchuchin districts of the Grodno region <\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n

    Contents:<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The earliest records date from the early period of Soviet power in Grodno Region, when\r\nthe military and revolutionary committees came into existence (the 1920s). These are\r\nrecords concerning the creation of the Communist Party and Komsomol organizations in the\r\nregion; instructions and proceedings of the district and village revolutionary committees\r\non the issues of political, economic and social life; lists of localities, data on the\r\nnumber of settlements, estates and granges and the number of their inhabitants; materials\r\nrelating to the Grodno theatre, and more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The Archives holds a substantial complex of documents created by the Polish\r\ninstitutions that functioned in the Novogrudok voivodeship (except the Baranovichi and\r\nVolozhin districts), and in the Volkovysk and Grodno districts of the Bialystok\r\nvoivodeship. The economic situation in the region, the agrarian reforms, the creation of\r\nsmall peasant farms (khutors<\/em>), and the taxation policy are illustrated in the\r\ndocuments of the Novogrudok voivodeship administration, district councils, land offices\r\nand forestries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The fonds of the teachers colleges and schools contain instructions issued by the\r\nministry of religions and public education, the trusteeships of the Warsaw and Vilnius\r\nschool districts, proceedings of school council meetings and state exams, lists of\r\nteachers and students, and more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The reports and legal cases of the police judicial institutions and the Grodno prison\r\ncontain information on workers’ political and social movement and the mass meetings in\r\n1935 and 1936 in defense of the revolutinary member S. O. Pritytski sentenced to death by\r\nthe Polish court; information relating to poets M. Mashara, F. Pestrak, and V. Tavlai who\r\nstayed in the Grodno prison. Records of the Polish period are mainly in Polish. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Records of the Nazi Occupation, represented by the fonds of the institutions that\r\nfunctioned at that time in the occupied territory, illustrate the policy pursued by the\r\nGerman authorities.\u00a0 <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The largest complex of the archive’s holdings are the records of Soviet period. Records\r\nfrom the period 1939-1941 reflect the history of reunification of Western Belarus with the\r\nBelarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, the socialist transformations in economics and\r\nculture on the eve of the war. The main bulk of the post-war records are documents of the\r\ngovernment institutions, public control, courts and prosecutor’s, justice, planning and\r\nstatistics, financing, state insurance, agriculture, forestry, construction and\r\narchitecture, communal services, transport and communications, trade, public education,\r\nculture, arts, mass media, health care, welfare, physical culture and sports, labour and\r\nother social organizations. These records illustrate the main activities and functions of\r\nthe mentioned organizations. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Records of the organizations and enterprises that functioned in the 1990s are\r\nrepresented in the fonds of the tax inspections, the committee on state property, open\r\njoint-stock companies, agricultural cooperative associations, etc. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The personal fonds contain records relating to the life of Ia. N. Marash, doctor of historical sciences, professor at the Kupala State University of Grodno; A.O.Makovelski, correspondent member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, native of Grodno; the writer A. Karpiuk; the director of the State Archives of Grodno Region, Merited Worker of Culture of Belarus A. N. Pleshevenia; professor, doctor of medical sciences V.I.Brzeski; director of the National Historical Archives in Grodno, Merited Worker of Culture of Belarus K. P. Batrakova; professors at the Kupala State University of Grodno, candidates of historical sciences I.I.Kovkel, V. N. Cherepitsa, D.V.Karev, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, honorary citizens of the city of Grodno G.I.Obelevsky, V.L.Zukhovitsky.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The Archives holds collections of records relating to the participants in the October Revolution of 1917, the Civil War, the revolutionary movement in Grodno Region, and the Partisan movement in the Second World War; records on repatriated civilians and Soviet prisoners of war, filtration cases on citizens who returned from Germany; personnel records for the years 1944-1962; documents on the history of the Belarusian Border District collected by V. P. Verkhos; a collection of digital master copies of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes and Damage Caused to Citizens, Collective Farms, Public Organizations and Government Institutions in the USSR for the city of Grodno and the districts of Berestovitsa, Vasilishki, Volkovysk, Grodno, Zelva, Mosty, Porozovo, Radun, Svisloch, Skidel, Shchuchin in Grodno Region, BSSR, received from the State Archives of the Russian Federation.. <\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contacts Historical background Finding aids Description of holdings Amount of holdings: 1 745 fonds, 9 collections, 578 238 items Chronological scope: from 1919 to the present Geographical coverage: Western Belarus…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":184649,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-201843","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022724,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201843\/revisions\/1022724"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}