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}}__NOTOC__Guide to '''Russia ancestry, family history and genealogy''': parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
'''''NOTE: If researching before 1918, see [[Russian Empire Genealogy|Russian Empire]].'''''<br>
==Information==
Russia is a country in Eurasia bordered by [[Norway Genealogy|Norway]], [[Finland Genealogy|Finland]], [[Estonia Genealogy|Estonia]], [[Latvia Genealogy|Latvia]], [[Lithuania Genealogy|Lithuania]], [[Poland Genealogy|Poland]], [[Belarus Genealogy|Belarus]], [[Ukraine Genealogy|Ukraine]], [[Georgia (country) Genealogy|Georgia]], [[Azerbaijan Genealogy|Azerbaijan]], [[Kazakhstan Genealogy|Kazakhstan]], [[Chinese Genealogy|China]], [[Mongolia Genealogy|Mongolia]], and [[North Korea Genealogy|North Korea]]. It was known as the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991. The official language is Russian.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Russia," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia, accessed 28 March 2016.</ref>
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==Russia Map==
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[[File:Russian Regions-EN.png|750px]]


== Jurisdictions ==
Guide to Russia ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.  
Imperial Russia (Russian Empire) before 1917 was divided into governorates ('''gubernias''' or provinces). These were sub-divided into several '''uyezds''' or districts. Russia and Ukraine and other former Soviet republics were, and are still, divided into oblasts/provinces which were and are divided into raions/districts. Peripheral areas like the Caucasus sometimes use krai instead of raion for district. It is generally good to know both the old and the new jurisdictions in which a smaller place is located, because currently the FamilySearch Catalog uses the new jurisdictions for Ukraine, but the old ones for Russia. Archives all over the former Soviet Union concentrate their holdings according to oblast borders. Old documents refer to the old jurisdictions, and most of our Russian and Ukrainian microfilms are from the old Imperial time.  


List of the governorates created in 1708:<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Administration divisions of Russia in 1708-1710," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Russia_in_1708%E2%80%931710, accessed 29 April 2016.</ref>
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    <li>Archangelgorod (Архангелогородская) </li>
 
    <li>Azov (Азовская)</li>
 
    <li>Ingermanland (Ингерманландская) </li>
=== Welcome to the Russia Page!<br> ===
    <li>Kazan (Казанская) </li>
 
    <li>Kiev (Киевская) </li>
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    <li>Moscow (Московская) </li>
 
    <li>Siberia (Сибирская) </li>
The Russia portal page has many helpful articles that can help you learn how to find, use, and analyze Russian records of genealogical value. There are also sections on the page that can help simplify the research process.
    <li>Smolensk (Смоленская)</li>
 
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=== Jurisdictions  ===
 
Imperial Russia (Russian Empire) before 1917 was divided into '''gubernias''' or provinces. These were sub-divided into several '''uyezds''' or districts. Russia and Ukraine and other former Soviet republics were, and are still, divided into oblasts/provinces which were and are divided into raions/districts. Peripheral areas like the Caucasus sometimes use krai instead of raion for district. It is generally good to know both the old and the new jurisdictions in which a smaller place is located, because currently the FamilySearch Catalog uses the new jurisdictions for Ukraine, but the old ones for Russia. Archives all over the former Soviet Union concentrate their holdings according to oblast borders. Old documents refer to the old jurisdictions, and most of our Russian and Ukrainian microfilms are from the old Imperial time.


Current administrative division consist of 46 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast), 21 republics (respublik, singular - respublika), 4 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 9 krays (krayev, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (goroda, singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast') as follows.Although retaining a lot of similarities, administrative-territorial division and regions boundaries undergo substantial changes during the 20th century, affecting the records storage sites.  
Current administrative division consist of 46 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast), 21 republics (respublik, singular - respublika), 4 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 9 krays (krayev, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (goroda, singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast') as follows.Although retaining a lot of similarities, administrative-territorial division and regions boundaries undergo substantial changes during the 20th century, affecting the records storage sites.  


==== Oblasts ====
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    <li>Amur (Blagoveshchensk) </li>
|
    <li>Arkhangelsk</li>
'''Oblasts:'''
    <li>Astrakhan' </li>
 
    <li>Belgorod</li>
*Amur (Blagoveshchensk)  
    <li>Bryansk</li>
*Arkhangel'sk
    <li>Chelyabinsk </li>
*Astrakhan'  
    <li>Irkutsk </li>
*Belgorod  
    <li>Ivanovo</li>
*Bryansk  
    <li>Kaliningrad </li>
*Chelyabinsk  
    <li>Kaluga</li>
*Irkutsk  
    <li>Kemerovo </li>
*Ivanovo  
    <li>Kirov</li>
*Kaliningrad  
    <li>Kostroma</li>
*Kaluga  
    <li>Kurgan</li>
*Kemerovo  
    <li>Kursk</li>
*Kirov  
    <li>Leningrad</li>
*Kostroma  
    <li>Lipetsk</li>
*Kurgan  
    <li>Magadan</li>
*Kursk  
    <li>Moscow</li>
*Leningrad  
    <li>Murmansk</li>
*Lipetsk  
    <li>Nizhniy Novgorod </li>
*Magadan  
    <li>Novgorod</li>
*Moscow  
    <li>Novosibirsk </li>
*Murmansk  
    <li>Omsk </li>
*Nizhniy Novgorod  
    <li>Orenburg </li>
*Novgorod  
    <li>Orel </li>
*Novosibirsk  
    <li>Penza</li>
*Omsk  
    <li>Pskov</li>
*Orenburg  
    <li>Rostov</li>
*Orel  
    <li>Ryazan'</li>
*Penza  
    <li>Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) </li>
*Pskov  
    <li>Samara </li>
*Rostov  
    <li>Saratov </li>
*Ryazan'  
    <li>Smolensk</li>
*Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)  
    <li>Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) </li>
*Samara  
    <li>Tambov</li>
*Saratov  
    <li>Tomsk </li>
*Smolensk  
    <li>Tula</li>
*Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg)  
    <li>Tver'</li>
*Tambov  
    <li>Tyumen' </li>
*Tomsk  
    <li>Ul'yanovsk </li>
*Tula  
    <li>Vladimir</li>
*Tver'  
    <li>Volgograd </li>
*Tyumen'  
    <li>Vologda</li>
*Ul'yanovsk  
    <li>Voronezh</li>
*Vladimir  
    <li>Yaroslavl'</li>
*Volgograd  
</ul>
*Vologda  
|}
*Voronezh  
*Yaroslavl'
 
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'''Republics:'''
 
*Adygeya (Maykop)
*Altay (Gorno-Altaysk)
*Bashkortostan (Ufa)
*Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude)
*Chechnya (Groznyy)
*Chuvashiya (Cheboksary)
*Dagestan (Makhachkala)
*Ingushetiya (Magas)
*Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik)
*Kalmykiya (Elista)
*Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk)
*Kareliya (Petrozavodsk)
*Khakasiya (Abakan)
*Komi (Syktyvkar)
*Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola)
*Mordoviya (Saransk)
*North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz)
*Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk)
*Tatarstan (Kazan')
*Tyva (Kyzyl)
*Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)<br>


==== Republics ====
'''Autonomous Okrugs:'''
{|
|-
<ul class="column-spacing-fullscreen" style="padding-right:5px;">
    <li>Adygeya (Maykop) </li>
    <li>Altay (Gorno-Altaysk) </li>
    <li>Bashkortostan (Ufa) </li>
    <li>Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude) </li>
    <li>Chechnya (Groznyy) </li>
    <li>Chuvashiya (Cheboksary) </li>
    <li>Dagestan (Makhachkala) </li>
    <li>Ingushetiya (Magas) </li>
    <li>Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik)</li>
    <li>Kalmykiya (Elista) </li>
    <li>Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk) </li>
    <li>Kareliya (Petrozavodsk) </li>
    <li>Khakasiya (Abakan) </li>
    <li>Komi (Syktyvkar) </li>
    <li>Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola)</li>
    <li>Mordoviya (Saransk) </li>
    <li>North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz)</li>
    <li>Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk) </li>
    <li>Tatarstan (Kazan') </li>
    <li>Tyva (Kyzyl) </li>
    <li>Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)</li>
</ul>
|}


==== Autonomous Okrugs ====
*Chukotka (Anadyr')  
*Chukotka (Anadyr')  
*Khanty-Mansi (Khanty-Mansiysk)  
*Khanty-Mansi (Khanty-Mansiysk)  
*Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar)  
*Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar)  
*Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard)
*Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard)<br>
 
'''Krays:'''
 
*Altay (Barnaul)
*Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy)
*Khabarovsk
*Krasnodar
*Krasnoyarsk
*Perm'
*Primorsk (Vladivostok)
*Stavropol'
*Zabaykal'skiy (Chita)<br>
 
'''Federal Cities:'''
 
*Moscow (Moskva)
*[[Saint Petersburg, Russia|Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg)]]<br>
 
'''Autonomous Oblast:'''
 
*Yevrey [Jewish] (Birobidzhan)


==== Krays ====
{|
|-
<ul class="column-spacing-halfscreen" style="width:50%; padding-right:5px;">
    <li>Altay (Barnaul) </li>
    <li>Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy)</li>
    <li>Khabarovsk </li>
    <li>Krasnodar </li>
    <li>Krasnoyarsk </li>
    <li>Perm' </li>
    <li>Primorsk (Vladivostok)</li>
    <li>Stavropol' </li>
    <li>Zabaykal'skiy (Chita)</li>
</ul>
|}
|}


==== Federal Cities ====
Note: Administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
*Moscow (Moskva)  
 
*[[Saint Petersburg, Russia|Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg)]]
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=== Research Tools  ===
 
*[[Russia Beginning Research|Beginning Russian Research]]
*Join our group of Russia researchers on [https://www.facebook.com/RussiaGenealogy Facebook]
*See tutorials on FamilySearch Learning Center for''[https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/results.html?q=*&fq=place%3A%22Russia%22 Russian Research] and [https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/results.html?q=*&fq=place%3A%22Russia%22 Reading Russian Handwritten Records]''
*[https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Soviet_Calendar Calendar: Soviet]
*[[Emigration Records of Europe]]
*[[:File:Finding Places in the Former Russian Empire.pdf|Finding Places in the Former Russian Empire]]
*[http://boxpis.ru/ boxpis.ru/]
*[[:File:German Collections in Russian Archives.pdf|German Collections in Russian Archives]]
*Guide to reading [[:File:Old Church Slavonic Numbers, Dates, and Months by Matthew Bialawa.pdf|Old Church Slavonic]]
*[http://net.lib.byu.edu/fslab/researchoutlines/Europe/Russia.pdf Russian Genealogical Word List and Resources by BYU]*[[:File:Russian Empire Genealogical Primer.pdf|Russian Empire Genealogical Primer]]
*[[Russia Websites|Websites]]
*[[:File:Russian Word List.pdf|Word List]]
 
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Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:&nbsp;
 
*[[Russia Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
*[[Russia Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
*[[Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
*[[Russia Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
*[[Russia, Samara Province Orthodox Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia, Samara Province Orthodox Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
*[[Russia, Tver Province Orthodox Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia, Tver Province Orthodox Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
*[[Russia, Tver Province Orthodox Confession Lists (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Russia, Tver Province Orthodox Confession Lists (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
 
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==== Autonomous Oblast ====
*[[Hamburg Passenger Lists|Hamburg Passenger Lists]]
*[[Germans from Russia|Germans from Russia]]
*[http://www.wiki.svrt.ru/index.php?title=%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F www.wiki.svrt.ru/index.php]


<li>Yevrey [Jewish] (Birobidzhan)
=== Links to articles, subcategories and images under the Category {{PAGENAME}}  ===


Note: Administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
*[[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]


==References==
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[[Category:Europe]] [[Category:Countries]] [[Category:Russia]]
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[[es:Rusia - Genealogía]]

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Guide to Russia ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.



Russia Wiki Topics
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Russia Background
Cultural Groups
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Welcome to the Russia Page!
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FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors.

The Russia portal page has many helpful articles that can help you learn how to find, use, and analyze Russian records of genealogical value. There are also sections on the page that can help simplify the research process.




Jurisdictions[edit | edit source]

Imperial Russia (Russian Empire) before 1917 was divided into gubernias or provinces. These were sub-divided into several uyezds or districts. Russia and Ukraine and other former Soviet republics were, and are still, divided into oblasts/provinces which were and are divided into raions/districts. Peripheral areas like the Caucasus sometimes use krai instead of raion for district. It is generally good to know both the old and the new jurisdictions in which a smaller place is located, because currently the FamilySearch Catalog uses the new jurisdictions for Ukraine, but the old ones for Russia. Archives all over the former Soviet Union concentrate their holdings according to oblast borders. Old documents refer to the old jurisdictions, and most of our Russian and Ukrainian microfilms are from the old Imperial time.

Current administrative division consist of 46 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast), 21 republics (respublik, singular - respublika), 4 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 9 krays (krayev, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (goroda, singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast') as follows.Although retaining a lot of similarities, administrative-territorial division and regions boundaries undergo substantial changes during the 20th century, affecting the records storage sites.

Oblasts:

  • Amur (Blagoveshchensk)
  • Arkhangel'sk
  • Astrakhan'
  • Belgorod
  • Bryansk
  • Chelyabinsk
  • Irkutsk
  • Ivanovo
  • Kaliningrad
  • Kaluga
  • Kemerovo
  • Kirov
  • Kostroma
  • Kurgan
  • Kursk
  • Leningrad
  • Lipetsk
  • Magadan
  • Moscow
  • Murmansk
  • Nizhniy Novgorod
  • Novgorod
  • Novosibirsk
  • Omsk
  • Orenburg
  • Orel
  • Penza
  • Pskov
  • Rostov
  • Ryazan'
  • Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
  • Samara
  • Saratov
  • Smolensk
  • Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg)
  • Tambov
  • Tomsk
  • Tula
  • Tver'
  • Tyumen'
  • Ul'yanovsk
  • Vladimir
  • Volgograd
  • Vologda
  • Voronezh
  • Yaroslavl'

Republics:

  • Adygeya (Maykop)
  • Altay (Gorno-Altaysk)
  • Bashkortostan (Ufa)
  • Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude)
  • Chechnya (Groznyy)
  • Chuvashiya (Cheboksary)
  • Dagestan (Makhachkala)
  • Ingushetiya (Magas)
  • Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik)
  • Kalmykiya (Elista)
  • Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk)
  • Kareliya (Petrozavodsk)
  • Khakasiya (Abakan)
  • Komi (Syktyvkar)
  • Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola)
  • Mordoviya (Saransk)
  • North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz)
  • Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk)
  • Tatarstan (Kazan')
  • Tyva (Kyzyl)
  • Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)

Autonomous Okrugs:

  • Chukotka (Anadyr')
  • Khanty-Mansi (Khanty-Mansiysk)
  • Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar)
  • Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard)

Krays:

  • Altay (Barnaul)
  • Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy)
  • Khabarovsk
  • Krasnodar
  • Krasnoyarsk
  • Perm'
  • Primorsk (Vladivostok)
  • Stavropol'
  • Zabaykal'skiy (Chita)

Federal Cities:

Autonomous Oblast:

  • Yevrey [Jewish] (Birobidzhan)

Note: Administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)


Research Tools[edit | edit source]


Wiki articles describing online collections are found at: 


Help with the Russia Wiki pages[edit | edit source]

Wiki Volunteers Wanted

In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need willing volunteers. You can help:

Related Content[edit | edit source]

Links to articles, subcategories and images under the Category Russia Genealogy[edit | edit source]

Use the FamilySearch Learning Center to find online genealogy classes.

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