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Civil registration records are kept by civil registration offices in | Civil registration records are kept by civil registration offices in regions. | ||
*[http://mxkr.ru/en/registry-offices List of Russian Civil Registration Offices] | *[http://mxkr.ru/en/registry-offices List of Russian Civil Registration Offices] | ||
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Jews in Kovno and Vilna Guberniya were required to go to the synagogue to which they were assigned to register life events, and each year, the government authorities went to the synagogues to copy these registers. The records were written in Russian (Cyrillic.) Some, but not all records were then duplicated in Hebrew or Yiddish. Today all vital records stored in archives are copies. The original records, kept in synagogues, were destroyed by 1942, primarily by the Germans. | Jews in Kovno and Vilna Guberniya were required to go to the synagogue to which they were assigned to register life events, and each year, the government authorities went to the synagogues to copy these registers. The records were written in Russian (Cyrillic.) Some, but not all records were then duplicated in Hebrew or Yiddish. Today all vital records stored in archives are copies. The original records, kept in synagogues, were destroyed by 1942, primarily by the Germans. | ||
==Coverage and Compliance== | |||
"Vital records...are called Acts of civil state or Acts of civil status...These records are available only for relatives of a died person...All registers before 1918 are open for everyone." | "Vital records...are called Acts of civil state or Acts of civil status...These records are available only for relatives of a died person...All registers before 1918 are open for everyone." | ||
Births, deaths and marriages must be registered by register office called Body of registration of acts of civil status | Births, deaths and marriages must be registered by register office called Body of registration of acts of civil status...or the Palace of Marriages...for civil marriage ceremonies. The system is decentralized. Each Russian federal subject has its own regional body as a part of regional government. | ||
The Unified state register of acts of civil status...began operations since October 1, 2018."<ref>Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_registration#Russia Civil Registration - Russia], (accessed 9 February 2020).</ref> | |||
==Information Recorded in the Records== | ==Information Recorded in the Records== | ||