{"id":872100,"date":"2006-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?page_id=872100"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:22:29","slug":"state-archives-of-brest-region-contents","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-brest-region\/state-archives-of-brest-region\/state-archives-of-brest-region-contents","title":{"rendered":"State Archives of Brest Region. Contents"},"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: <\/strong>1 318 fonds, 1 153 584 items<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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

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

    \r\n
  • Districts of Baranovichi, Luninets, Pinsk and Pruzhany in Minsk Gubernia (Province); records from 1919-1920<\/li>\r\n
  • Polesie Voivodeship (Province) and Baranovichi District of Novogrudok Voivodeship in Poland (when Western Belarus was part of Poland in 1921-1939); records from 1919-1939.
    \r\nIn addition, there are separate records concerning the voivodeships of Bialystok, Vilno and Novogrudok in Poland (areas presently included in Grodno Region and partly in the regions of Vitebsk and Minsk in the Republic of Belarus), and the voivodeships of Warsaw, Volyn (Volhynia), Kielce, Krakow, Lvov (Lviv) and Lublin in Poland (areas presently not included in the Republic of Belarus), 1919-1939 <\/li>\r\n
  • The abolished districts of Vysokoe and Domachevo in Brest Region <\/li>\r\n
  • The town of Brest and the districts of Brest, Zhabinka, Kamenets and Malorita in Brest Region (from 1939) \r\n <\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n

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

    Of the most informative and sizeable archives of the Polish period (1919-1939) is the\r\nfonds of the Polesie Voivodeship Board. It contains information relating to the national\r\npolicy of the Polish government in Western Belarus. Other records are concerned with the\r\npopulation structure and territorial-administrative division of the Polesie voivodeship,\r\nthe protection of the frontier, the state of education, culture, public health and\r\ntown-planning, the social and economic state of the region’s population, the state of\r\nagriculture in the region, the people’s struggle against national and social\r\noppression & the activities of various political parties, trade unions &\r\neducational and other public organizations. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Considerable in number are the fonds of the Brest and Pinsk town boards, the Pinsk\r\nokrug commissariat, the Pinsk western and eastern boards. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The fonds of the Brest School District Board of Trustees holds information concerning\r\nthe network of educational establishments, the state of secondary and professional\r\neducation, the condition of national schools, the construction of school buildings, and\r\nthe composition of students and teaching staff in the school district which covered the\r\nPolesie voivodeship and partially the Novogrudok and Bialystok voivodeships in\r\n1921-1939. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The Archive holds the fonds of the Bereza Kartuska prison camp, which was created by\r\nthe Polish government in 1934 in the Polesie voivodeship to keep in detention, without any\r\ndecision of the courts, people suspected of common crimes. The biggest part are the case\r\nfiles of people who were imprisoned because of their membership in the revolutionary\r\norganizations and opposition parties. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The fonds of the Polesie Orthodox Ecclesiastical Consistory, the Pinsk Roman-Catholic\r\nCuria, and the fonds of the Judaic religious communities are of considerable interest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The documents for 1939-1941, which remain small in number, indicate the first measures\r\ncarried out by the Soviet power in the social and economic reconstruction of Western\r\nBelarus. They describe the formation of the provisional administration boards in the\r\nreunited regions; organization of the elections to the People’s Assembly of Western\r\nBelarus and to the local government; nationalization of private enterprises and big\r\nhouses; the first steps in the creation of state industry; reconstruction of the\r\nDnieper-Bug Canal, and more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The documents of <\/b>the Brest Region Executive Committee throw light on the process\r\nof socialist transformations in the region from 1939 to 1941; nationalization of\r\nindustrial enterprises; collectivization of agriculture; restoration of the region’s\r\neconomy in the postwar period; the development of public education, health, culture and\r\nsocial welfare.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The postwar socio-economic and cultural development of the region is also described in\r\nlocal authority documents and in the archives of the various industrial and agricultural\r\nenterprises, including the cultural, educational, building, health and other\r\norganizations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The fonds of the Brest Town Executive Committee <\/strong>gives information on\r\nthe history of the town’s economy; the town’s infrastructure and restoration after the\r\nwar; the construction of administrative, industrial and dwelling houses, and more. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The fonds of the party regional committees in Brest, Baranovichi and Pinsk, as well as\r\nthe fonds of the town and district party committees, and other party organizations contain\r\ninformation about the Communist Party leadership and control over all spheres of economic\r\nand socio-cultural life in the region. They depict the political and economic situation in\r\nthe region, collectivization of agriculture, personnel policy, ideological activities of\r\nthe party, and more. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    Nazi Occupation policy (1941-1944) is depicted in the documents of the Brest,\r\nBaranovichi and Pinsk okrug commissariats, as well as in the documents of the town,\r\ndistrict and volost boards and various economic organizations. The records of the\r\nBrest and Pinsk town councils, 1941-1944, reveal Nazi Occupation policy in Belarus &\r\nNazi crimes against the local population, including the genocide against the Jews.\r\nThe archives of the Brest Town Council hold the records concerning the creation of a\r\nghetto in the town, the Jewish passports and passes in and out of the ghetto, and also the\r\nstatistics on Brest’s Jewish population, etc. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The fonds of the Brest Regional Commission for Assistance to the State Extraordinary\r\nCommission for Investigation of Nazi Crime contains information on Nazi crimes during\r\nthe Occupation (1941-1944) in the region, holds lists of the region’s residents who\r\nwere killed by the Nazis, lists of those deported to Germany, documents on the damage\r\nattributable to the Occupation, and more. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

    The Archive holds papers of the active participants of the October Revolution of 1917,\r\nthe Russian Civil War (1918-21), the national liberation movement in Western Belarus, and\r\nthe Second World War; participants of the Brest underground resistance; records on the\r\nhistory of the Brest region; personnel records, and more. <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contacts Historical background Finding aids Description of holdings Amount of holdings: 1 318 fonds, 1 153 584 items Chronological scope: from 1919 to the present Geographical coverage: Districts of Baranovichi,…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":622344,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-872100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872100"}],"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=872100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022543,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872100\/revisions\/1022543"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}