The State Archive of Brest Region was established following the reunification of Western Belarus with the Belarusian SSR, based on the Council of People’s Commissars of BSSR decree dated February 11, 1940 (No. 182) “On organizing archival affairs in Baranovichi, Pinsk, Vileika, Brest, and Bialystok regions of BSSR.” Its purpose is to centralize, record, preserve, and conduct scientific research on archival documents.
The archive’s holdings cover the period from 1919 to the present.
The territorial scope includes:
- Baranovichi, Luninets, Pinsk, Pruzhany counties of Minsk province (1919–1920 documents);
- Polesie Voivodeship and Baranovichi district of Novogrudok Voivodeship in Poland (period of Western Belarus under Polish rule, 1921–1939);
- Fragmentary documents from Bialystok, Vilna, Novogrudok Voivodeships (now parts of Grodno, partly Vitebsk and Minsk regions of Belarus), and Warsaw, Volhynia, Kielce, Krakow, Lviv, Lublin Voivodeships (territories outside modern Belarus) covering 1919–1939;
- Former Vysokovsky and Domachevsky districts of Brest region;
- City of Brest and Brestsky, Zhabinkovsky, Kamenetsky, and Malorita districts of Brest region (since 1939).
The archive is a vital resource for genealogical research involving birth, marriage, death records, population registers, and other historical documents related to Brest region and its surrounding territories.
Contact Information
| Type | Details |
|---|---|
| Address | ул. В.Хоружей, 15, 224030, Брест, Беларусь |
| Phone | +375 162 34 18 26 (general), Fax: 34 12 39 |
| brestoblarhiv@gabr.by | |
| Working Hours | Monday–Friday 8:30–13:00, 14:00–17:30 Reference desk: Mon, Wed, Fri 8:00–13:00, 14:00–17:30; Tue, Thu 8:30–13:00, 14:00–20:00; Third Saturday (except holidays) 8:30–13:00, 14:00–17:30; Last Friday of month – sanitary day |
| Reading Rooms | Engelsa St., 8 (docs 1919–1939, 1941–1944) V. Khoruzhey St., 15 (docs 1939–1941, 1944–1991, from 1991) |