The National Archive of the Republic of Belarus (NARB)

The National Archive of the Republic of Belarus (Государственное учреждение «Национальный архив Республики Беларусь») is the main republican state archive and a scientific, research, and methodological center for managing documents of the National Archival Fund of Belarus. It was established in 1927 as the Central Archive of the October Revolution of the BSSR and has undergone several reorganizations before becoming the National Archive in 1995.

The archive holds documents from government bodies, organizations active in Belarus and abroad since 1917, republican party, Komsomol, trade union, public, and cooperative organizations, institutions from the Provisional Government (1917), the Belarusian-Lithuanian SSR (1919), the Belarusian People’s Republic (1918–1925), Western Belarusian organizations (1921–1939), as well as from the period of the Civil War, WWII occupations, partisan formations, and underground groups. It also preserves records related to public, political, scientific, and cultural figures.

Contact Information

Type Details
Email info@mail.narb.by
General Phone (017) 272-67-78
Reading Room Phone: (017) 351-05-12
Documents and Information Dept. Phone: (017) 272-29-52
Records Formation Dept. Address: ул. Макаёнка, 12, корп. 1, Минск
Phone: (017) 303-27-43
Address пр-т Независимости, 116, Минск, Беларусь

Common types of genealogy records include:

  • Birth records
  • Marriage records
  • Death records
  • Church books
  • Census records
  • Land ownership documents
  • Military records
  • Probate and wills
  • Immigration records
  • School registers

…and more.

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