Addresses of Archives holding Vital Records of interest to Lida District Researchers

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Web site for the Belarusian Archives

ARCHIVES IN BELARUS

Archives are in two main categories:
* Six Republican (National)
* Six Provincial (Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Mogilev, Minsk) then
subdivided into twenty-five National Provincial and Regional Archives

NATIONAL ARCHIVES

NATION ARCHIVES OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS:
Documents from 1917, emphasizing WWII. Documents of collaboration with Nazi Belarussian fascist organizations, history of partisans, Polish underground, German destruction of country and in preparation, computerized lists of Belarussian that were forced laborers of the Germans during WWII.

NATIONAL HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF BELARUS IN MINSK
Period: between 15th to 20th centuries. Archives possess birth, marriage and death documents of Belarussians and
foreigners whose family originated in former Vitebsk, Minsk and Mogilev gubernii, not Grodno.

NATIONAL HISTORICAL ARCHIVES IN CITY GRODNO
Period: between 16th to 20th centuries. documents associated with kahals [Jewish community records], possibly properties.

BELARUSSIAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF MOVIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Visual documents from the end of 19th century to date. From WWII period: Jewish Ghettos; "Death Camps": Archive has many private source photographs made prior to 1917 for Borisov, Gomel, Grodno, Kobrin, Minsk, Mogilev, Molodechno, Nesvizh, Polotsk, Pinsk, Vitebsk, Vileyka, and Zaslavl. Availability for Lida uezd towns is under current investigation.

BELARUSSIAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF ART AND LITERATURE

BELARUSSIAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES

Grodno Province: Grodno, Lida, Novogrudok All archives are from the WWII, few from 1917 period.

List of genealogical materials in the NATIONAL HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF BELARUS IN GRODNO Be sure to look at the page carefully; Lida and a few Lida towns are listed several times on this page. This archive now offers genealogical search services. For a price list for non-Belarussians, scroll down to near the bottom of the page.

Addresses

Central State Historical Archive of Belarus
Belarus 230023 Grodno
Pl. Lenina, 2
(branch of the republic-level archive in Minsk)

Central State Historical Archive of Belarus
Belarus 220038 Minsk
ul. Kozlova 26

State Archive of Grodno Oblast
Belarus 252073 Grodno
ul. Akademicheskaya 7a

National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno:
Karina BATRAKOVA, Director
      A.Tizengauz sg. 2,
      230023 GRODNO,
      Rep of Belorus
      T. 0152 44 94 66

Lithuanian State Historical Archives (Lietuvos Valstybes Istorijos Archyvas)
Gerosios Vilties 10
2009 Vilnius, Lithuania

research fee $70 to archive account #: 07040255
Lithuanian Bank in Vilnius AB LTB BARU LT 2X
Naujamiestis Branch Code 2060202596
Bank-Correspondent : American Express Bank Ltd.,
American Express Tower 3, World Finanical Center
New York NY 10285-2300, US
Account # 719906
1997 Charge for one copy of record with translation: $18US and $13US for translation without copy.
Census lists for Lida District for 1816, 1850, 1858, and 1874 are held at this archive..

What kinds of records can you expect to find? A comprehensive overview of holdings in various archives

The Lida Municipal Archives, the Branch of the State Archives of Grodno Region in Lida (1963-1996)

Address: Podeby, 63, 231300. Lida, the Grodno area, Belarus
Telephone: 8-015-61 2-59-93, 2-58-96
Director: Svirko Svetlana Gennad'evna

Chronological period: from 1944 to the present time

Historical Background: Branch of the State Archive of Grodno Region in Lida began in November 1963 for the archives of Voronovskogo, Iv'evskogo, Lidskogo, Ostrovetskogo, Oshmjanskogo, Smorgonskogo areas and archive of the town of Lidy. In February 1996, the branch was renamed Regional State Archive in Lida of Grodno Oblast.

Fonds for Lida and Voronovsky, Iv'evsky, Lidsky, Ostrovetsky, Oshmjansky, Smorgonsky areas since 1944.: 1468, Dyelo - 128 681, 1 384 running meters, 1 collection of documents on staff for 1944-1961. Documents of local overnment
bodies and cover national education, public health services, culture, industry and agriculture of the indicated areas, and also the liquidated Radunskogo and Juratishkovskogo areas.

Brief holdings description: The Archives preserves documents of local authorities and administration, public health service, culture, industrial and agricultural enterprises of the mentioned districts, as well as the abolished Radun and Yuratishki districts.

This section on the Lida Regional Archive derived from the Belarussian Archives web site at top of this page using the web translator also linked there!

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