Russia Online Genealogy Records

These are genealogy links to Russia online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records. Some subscription websites listed below can be searched for free at a FamilySearch center or FamilySearch affiliate library.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths:
Church Records and Civil Registration

Births

1721-1939: Russia, Tatarstan Church Books at FamilySearch; images only
1722-1918: Russia, Tver Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images
1748-1934: Russia, Samara Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images
1755-1917: Russia, Births and Baptisms at FamilySearch; index only; Also at MyHeritage ($); Also at Ancestry ($); Also at Findmypast ($)
1768-1939: Russia, Simbirsk Church Books at FamilySearch; images only
1833-1885: Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($)
1869-1917: Russia, Samara Church Books at MyHeritage; index & images ($)
British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms at Findmypast; index & images ($)
Perm Oblast Church Records; index & images

Marriages

1721-1939: Russia, Tatarstan Marriage Books at FamilySearch; images only
1722-1918: Russia, Tver Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images
1748-1934: Russia, Samara Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images
1768-1939: Russia, Simbirsk Church Books at FamilySearch; images only
1793-1919: Russia, Marriages at FamilySearch; index only; Also at MyHeritage ($); Also at Ancestry ($); Also at Findmypast ($)
1833-1885: Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($)
1869-1917: Russia, Samara Church Books at MyHeritage; index & images ($)
British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages at Findmypast; index & images ($)
Perm Oblast Church Records; index & images

Deaths

1721-1939: Russia, Tatarstan Church Books at FamilySearch; images only
1722-1918: Russia, Tver Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images
1748-1934: Russia, Samara Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images
1768-1939: Russia, Simbirsk Church Books at FamilySearch; images only
1815-1917: Russia, Deaths and Burials at FamilySearch; index only; Also at MyHeritage ($); Also at Ancestry ($); Also at Findmypast ($)
1833-1885: Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($)
1869-1917: Russia, Samara Church Books at MyHeritage; index & images ($)
British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast; index & images ($)
Perm Oblast Church Records; index & images

Divorce

Cemetery Records

Russia, Cemetery Records at MyHeritage; index
Russian and Ukrainian Cemetery Databases at Lost Russian and Ukrainian Families
Russian Cemetery Database at Ckorbim
Russian Memorials at Find a Grave; index & images

Census

1728-1913: Russia, Tver Confession Lists at FamilySearch; images only
1775-1932: Russia, Tatarstan Confession Lists at FamilySearch; images only

Church Records

1721-1939: Russia, Tatarstan Church Books at FamilySearch; images only
1722-1918: Russia, Tver Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images
1748-1934: Russia, Samara Church Books at FamilySearch; index & images
1768-1939: Russia, Simbirsk Church Books at FamilySearch; images only
1833-1885: Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates at FamilySearch; index & images; Also at Ancestry ($)
1869-1917: Russia, Samara Church Books at MyHeritage; index & images ($)
Perm Oblast Church Records; index & images

Immigration Records

1550-1850 Scots in Poland, Russia and the Baltic States at Ancestry; index & images ($)
1834-1897: Russians To America at Findmypast; index only ($); Also at MyHeritage ($)
1890-1960 Immigration & Travel at Findmypast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Russia
1898-1922 Immigrants from the Russian Empire, at Library and Archives Canada; index only; includes those with Destination of Canada
1899-2012 US Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia at FamilySearch; index & images
1919 Russian Refugees at Malta Family History
1941-1943 Leningrad Evacuation Database at Archives of St. Petersburg; index only
1946-1971 Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons at Ancestry; index & images ($)

Jewish Records

1853-1854: Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire at JewishGen; index only
JewishGen Communities Database, Russia at JewishGen; index only
Jewish Russian Database at Jewish Roots; index only

Military

1914-1918: Russian Soldiers who died in WW1; index & images (In Russian)
1914-1918: Russia Prisoners of the First World War at ICRC Historical Archives; index only
1914-1918: Russian Soldiers of WW1; index only
1915-1950: Soviet Union, Soldier Memorials at MyHeritage; index only ($)
1923-1982: Memorial Books for Russian Soldiers who died in Wars; index only
1939-1945: Memory of the People List of WWII veterans for russia; index & images (In Russian)
1939-1945: Russian Prisoners of War Database; index only
1941-1944: Memory Book of the Leningrad Blockade; index & images (In Russia)
1941-1945: Russian soldiers during WWII at Memopuan; index only
1941-1945: Russian Soldiers of the Great War at Pobediteli; index only
Russian Soldiers in the Australian Imperial Force at Russian Anzacs; index only

Newspapers

Newspaper Archives Online: Russian Newspapers at NewsLink; index only

Nobility

Russian Nobility Database at Petergen; index only

Periodicals

PERiodical Source Index at Allen County Public Library; index

Political Victims

1936-1938: OpenList Victims of Soviet Union repression; index & images (In Russian)
1936-1938: Stalin ListsLists of executed people; index & images (In Russian)
1936-1938: List of Political Terror Victims; index only (In Russian)
National database of repressed of Ukraine at National Bank of the Repressed; index only

Tax Records