{"id":733911,"date":"2006-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?page_id=733911"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:54:09","slug":"zonal-state-archives-in-mozyr-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-gomel-region\/zonal-state-archives-in-mozyr\/zonal-state-archives-in-mozyr-description-of-holdings","title":{"rendered":"Zonal State Archives in Mozyr. 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> 1 209 fonds, 294 037 items<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Chronological s<\/b>cope:<\/strong> 1917 – to the present day<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Geographical cover<\/b>age: <\/strong>\r\n\r\n

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  • abolished Domanovichi, Kopatkevichi and Turov districts<\/li>\r\n
  • Elsk, Zhitkovichi, Kalinkovichi, Lelchitsy, Mozyr, Narovlia and Petrikov districts of\r\n the Gomel region <\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n

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

    The archives’ records illustrate the work of the region and district executive\r\ncommittees, militia, courts, prosecutor’s offices and food committees in the early\r\npostrevolutionary period. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The fonds of poverty committees, agricultural and statistical institutions contain data\r\non the development of agriculture, the organization of collective and state farms,\r\nmachine-&-tractor stations, land surveying and reclamation, the electrification and\r\nmechanization of agriculture, animal and livestock breeding, veterinary medicine, etc.\r\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Records of various land departments reflect the development of agriculture, the process\r\nof collectivization, the provision of the countryside with technical and agronomic\r\nequipment. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Records of public education illustrate the work of local institutions in the field of\r\nnational and cultural development, work with homeless children, the liquidation of\r\nilliteracy among the adult population. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Records of courts and prosecutor’s office reflect the struggle against deserters, kulaks (wealthier peasants), counterrevolutionary elements, “embezzlers of socialist property”, contain sentences in criminal cases and decisions in civil cases. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Records of notary’s offices contain inheritance certificates, agreements of donation, purchase and sale, division of property, inheritance rights etc. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Records of district and okrug executive committees illustrate the struggle against\r\nforeign military intervention and counterrevolution, economic devastation, unemployment,\r\nhunger, and the strengthening of Soviet power in 1920-1928. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Of peculiar interest are records of the revolutionary committees of the 1920s. These\r\nreflect the armed struggle of Soviet power against counterrevolutionary formations,\r\ndeserters and panic-mongers; there are data on the formation of militia units, work of\r\npoverty committees, one-week aid to the Red Army soldiers and their families, and helping\r\nthe starving people in the Povolzhye (Volga Region). <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The archive’s documents contain data on the organization of mass resettlement to\r\nSiberia, Crimea, Kaliningrad Region, and Far East in the 1920s and 1940s. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Of great interest is the fonds of the Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of\r\nNazi Crime and Damage in the Polesie Region–transcripts of eyewitnesses’ testimony,\r\nphotos and letters sent from Germany, lists of the individuals shot, hanged or sent to\r\nwork in Germany, and other documents.\u00a0 <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    In addition, the Archives contains a collection of memoirs written by the participants\r\nof the October Revolution of 1917, the Civil War, and World War II, including the Partisan\r\nmovement in the Polesie area, as well as recollections by public figures and famous people\r\n(in all, 69 items). <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    There is also a collection of personnel records acquired from various institutions in\r\nthe Elsk, Zhitkovichi, Kalinkovichi, Lelchitsy, Mozyr, Narovlia and Petrikov districts and\r\nin the town of Mozyr. <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contacts Historical background Finding aids Description of holdings Amount of holdings: 1 209 fonds, 294 037 items Chronological scope: 1917 – to the present day Geographical coverage: abolished Domanovichi, Kopatkevichi…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":106427,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-733911","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/733911"}],"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=733911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/733911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022568,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/733911\/revisions\/1022568"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}