Selected records from the State Archives of the Bryansk Region, Russian Federation RG-22.030
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: [email protected]
Descriptive summary
Title: Selected records from the State Archives of the Bryansk Region, Russian Federation
Dates: 1918-1972 (inclusive) (bulk)
Accession number: 2011.2
Extent: 5,788 digital images: JPEG; 15.5 GB 4 DVDs; 4 ¾ in
Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126
Languages: Russian
Scope and content of collection Contains selected records related to the partisan warfare and the local administration during and after WWII of the Bryansk region. Includes documents of the local administration established by the Nazis during WWII and by the Soviet Union after WWII . The records of the Soviet administration pertain to investigation of crimes committed by the Nazis during the occupation. Includes also a small collection of records related to the history of the Jewish population before WWII (1917- 1941).
Administrative Information Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access.
Restrictions on reproduction and use: Fair use only.
Preferred citation: Preferred citation for USHMM archival collections; consult the USHMM website for guidance.
Acquisition information: From the State Historical Archive of the Bryansk Region, Russia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the State Historical Archive of the Bryansk Region via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2011.
Existence and location of originals: Gosudarstvennyĭ istoricheskiĭ arkhiv Bria︠︡ nskoĭ oblasti
Processing history: Finding aid formatted by Tia Smith, 2018.
Indexing terms Administrats︠︡ iia︠︡ Bria︡︠ nskoĭ oblasti. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Russia (Federation)--Bria︠︡ nsk Region. Guerrilla warfare--Russia (Federation)--Bria︠︡ nsk Region--History--20th century. Jews--Russia (Federation)--Bria︡︠ nsk Region--History--20th century--Registers. War crimes--Russia (Federation)--Bria︠︡ nsk Region. Bria︠︡ nsk (Russia)--History--20th century.
CONTAINER LIST
Disk 1
Fund R-1097 – Klintsovsky regional executive council committee (Okrispolkom).
Inventory 1 for years 1929 – 1930.
F. 59. Documents on work among minority nationalities in Klintsovsky district.
1929 Number of sheets not indicated F. 83, ll. 78 – 79, 337. Records and decree of Presidium of Klintsovsky regional council committee on status of work among minority nationalities and documents on history of regional Committee on the settlement of Jews on the land (Komzet).
1929 –1930 F. 105. Documents on committees on the settlement of Jews on the land (KOMZET) in Klintsovsky district.
1929 Number of sheets not indicated
Fund R-1285 – Pochepsky UIK
Inventory 1 – 258 files for years 1917 – 1928.
F. 176. File on the census and registration of Jewish working population wishing to engage in agriculture.
1925 –1926 197 l.
Fund R-2608 – Collection of documents on period of occupation of Briansky region 1941 – 1943.
Inventory 1 – 73 files (7887 l.).
This archival collection consists of separate documents on period of occupation of Briansky region, sent for safekeeping in regional government archives by KGB authorities of Briansky region on 28 April 1956. The collection also includes KGВ documents on Briansky region for 1946-1956, including records of interrogations of persons working together with the occupiers. The archive was declassified in 1990. The archive contains a list of persons who committed crimes in Briansky region (d. 61). F. 9. Newspaper file of occupational newspapers: «Starodubskaya gazeta», «Novyi put’».
October 1941 – January 1943 64 l. F. 10. Newspaper file of occupational newspapers: «Novyi put’», «Klintsovskaya gazeta».
«Klintsovskaya gazeta» of 18 October 1941.A.2. Anti-Semitic article - «Handling of Jews».
«Novyi put’» (Klintsy), № 3, 31 December 1941. A.2. Anti- Semitic article of burgomaster M. Gretsky of city and district of Klintsy.
October – November 1941 22 l. F. 11. Brochure «General basis for national workers’ solidarity» 1941 22 l. F. 12. Propaganda materials of occupying powers in Russian language (newspapers, placards, appeals, leaflets, addresses).
Rare anti-Semitic caricature in journal «Bich» №8 for August 1943. 1941 – 1943 61 l. F. 30. Brochure of Michael Oktan (editor of newspaper «Rech’» (Orel): «Is this a patriotic war for people of Russia», «Jews and bolshevism». February – April 1942 57 l. F. 53. Newspaper file of newspaper «Za svobodu» (Smolensk), of organ of Russian people’s army. 1943 4 l. F. 54. Collaboration journals «Bich», «Novaya zhizn’», «Lyuba». June – August 1943 37 l. F. 55. Brochure of German head agricultural authorities «Significance of year 1943 for Russian agricultural economy».
January 1943 6 l. F. 56. Brochure of Red Army prisoner A. Ya. Zaporozhets «Life of German worker».
January 1943 6 l.
Disk 2
Fund P-3 – Briansky provincial committee (ukom) of Communist party.
Inventory 1 – 189 files for 1917 – 1921
F. 53. Circulars, decrees of central committee of Jewish social-democratic labor party (ESDRP) «Poalei Zion».
1919 – 1921 37 l. F. 98. Lists of members and sympathizers of Zhukovsky organization ESDRP «Poalei Zion».
1919 – 1920 28 l.
Fund P-13 – Klintsovsky region Communist party committee.
Inventory 1 – 139 files for 1929 – 1930
F. 76. Records of meetings, work reports on Jewish section at Klintsovsky region Communist party committee and other correspondence on work with minority nationalities.
1930 40 l.
Fund P-1 – Briansky province Communit party committee Beginning 1920 at the Department of Agitation and Propaganda there was a subdivision on minority nationalities and a Jewish section. Documents of provincial committee contain statistical and other information on Jews of the region in the pre-war period.
F. 773. Circulars and instructions of Communist party and Jewish youth union.
June 1923 24 l.
Fund R-85 – Briansky province executive committee
Inventory 1 for years 1918 – 1924
F. 855, ll. 96 – 104. Statistical data on nationality composition of population of Briansky province from 1920 population census.
Inventory 2 for years 1925 – 1929
F. 1615. Excerpt from record of meeting of committee on agricultural settlement of Jewish workers at presidium of council of nationalities at USSR Central executive committee (KOMZET) and records of meetings of provincial committee on organization of such committees in place.
1927 16 l.
Fund R-89 – Briansky regional executive council committee (Ogrispolkom).
Inventory 1 for years 1929 – 1930.
F. 340. Documents on work of regional KOMZET (committee on agricultural settlement of Jewish workers).
1930 12 l.
Fund R-526 – Karachevsky district council executive committee (UIK).
Inventory 1.
F. 594. On registration of Karachevsky district Jewish population wishing to take up agricultural work.
1926 Number of sheets not indicated
Fund R-793 – Novozybkovksy district council executive committee (UIK).
Inventory 1 – 535 files for years 1918 – 1929.
F. 122, l. 49. On establishment of district and rural committee on agricultural settlement of Jews (from record of meeting of UIK on February 1927.
Fund P-1650 – Briansky headquarters of partisan movement of Great Patriotic War (1941 – 1945).
The fund contains 2 inventories containing 1294 files. In May 1942, by decision of Government defense committee (GKO), Brianky headquarters of partisan movement was established at military council of Briansky front, the appointed head of which was A. Matveev, first secretary of Orlovsky regional Communist party committee. Inventory 1 includes 867 files with historical documents available for research. Inventory 2 includes lists of partisans, personal records of command personnel, award materials, correspondence on personnel, totaling 432 files
Structural departments of Briansky headquarters of partisan movement (BSHPD) were:
1. Operational department. 2. Reconnaissance department. 3. Headquarters personnel department. 4. Communications department. 5. Materials and technical supplies department. 6. Political department.
Inventory 1 – 867 files (69331 l.).
FF. 1 – 64. Operational department of BSHPD:
Instructions (orders, decisions) of central and higher organs to Briansky headquarters on organization of partisan action; correspondence of BSHPD on these issues; BSHPD documents, directives to partisan formation; documents and information (reports, dispatches, communiques) on partisan formation, on battle action and political education work in brigades sent to headquarters.
1942 –1943 7530 l. ДД. 65 – 98. Reconnaissance department:
• Leadership instructions on reconnaissance, received from center (orders, instructions); correspondence of BSHPD with central headquarters of partisan movement (TSSHPD), NKVD, information (reports, dispatches, etc.) of BSHPD on reconnaissance work in partisan formations. • Leadership instructions and orders of BSHPD sent to partisan formations on various reconnaissance actions. • Reconnaissance reports and other documents of partisan formations in BSHPD on work of various reconnaissance groups and secret service reconnaissance work in place.
1942 – 1943 4136 l.
F. 71. Reporting notes and information sent by BSHPD to central headquarters of partisan movement (TSSHPD) and regional Communist party committee on situation in occupied territory, tactics of Germans in fighting partisans, religious issue.
LL. 4 –13. Information on situation in occupied territories of Orlovsky and Kalininsky regions on 20 November 1942.
October – December 1942 45 l. F. 72. Reporting notes, reconnaissance dispatches of head of NKVD and reconnaissance department of BSHPD in TSSHPD and secretary of regional Communist party committee on activities of church-goers in occupied territory; maps and plans of cities of Briansk, Ordzhenikidzegrad, Orel, Kursk; overview of letters of partisans on life behind enemy lines and letters of German command.
May – November 1942 117 l. F. 76. Reports, reporting notes of BSHPD in TSSHPD on reconnaissance activities, operations of «Rel’sovaya voyna» (Railways war), on opponent’s tactics in fighting partisans. Documents of occupying powers: leaflets, notices, manifesto of command of «Russian liberation army» («ROA»).
1943 85 l. F. 73. Reconnaissance communiques of BSHPD in TSSHPD, containing detailed information on police in occupied territories, including on annihilation of Jews in Kiev and other places.
1942 113 l. F. 77. Reports, reporting notes, information of BSHPD on presence of manufacturing enterprises in occupied regions close to the front, on political inclinations of population in occupied territory, on conditions in enemy’s rear, on collaborationist political organizations in occupied districts.
1942 – 1943 89 l. F. 87. Informational bulletins of BSHPD on battle experience of partisan brigades, on political and economic regime established by the fascists on occupied territory, on political and moral degradation of punitive brigades of the fascist army, survey of newspapers issued by occupying powers in Russian language.
LL. 31 – 48. Detailed analysis of occupying regime in bulletin of BSHPD of December 1942 «Secret service situation on temporarily occupied territory by the Germans».
1943 63 l. F. 94. Reconnaissance dispatches of headquarters of partisan formations. Political and economic reviews of Komarichsky and Khvastovsky occupied regions. Records and lists of interrogations of prisoners of Russian liberation army «ROA», brigade of Kaminsky, detained Russian citizens. Translations of orders of German command.
1942 – 1943 l 136 l. FF. 99 – 113. Communications department of BSHPD:
Organization and diagrams of radio and telephone communication of BSHPD with partisan brigades.
1942 – 1943 1052 l. FF. 114 – 125. Personnel department of BSHPD:
Correspondence on personnel; training location; public department.
1942 – 1944 1929 l. F. 115. Statistical reports on battle and strength of personnel of partisan formations.
September – December 1942 37 l. F. 117. Training programs of partisan diversion cadres, secret service agents, scouts, etc.
September 1942 29 l. F. 123. Reconnaissance reports of TSSHPD (central headquarters of partisan movement). Correspondence of TSSHPD with BSHPD. Materials on counter-revolutionary political organizations, brigade of Kaminsky and other national formations in occupied districts of Orlovsky region (Briansky region until 1944 was part of Orlovsky region). Copy of list of workers of police in Orlovsky region (483 persons). 1943 – 1944 141 l. F. 125. Records of interrogations, questionnaires of prisoner soldiers and officers of German army, deserters and prisoners from Russian-German troops, volunteer regiment «Desna» and citizens detained by partisans, etc.
1942 – 1943 205 l. FF. 126 – 130. Materials and technical supplies department of BSHPD:
Memoranda, dispatches, reports, information on material and technical support, supplying of arms, ammunition and provisions to partisan formations.
1942 – 1944 911 l. FF. 131 – 140. Political department of BSHPD:
Memoranda, certificates, certificates of work of Party, Komsomol underground organizations in Party brigades on occupied territory; lists of Communists; materials and intelligence on battle activities of partisan brigades and the enemy.
1942 – 1944 316 l. F. 133. Memoranda of representative of military council of Briansky front, I. Kalinin, in name of the chief of political authorities of Briansky front, A. Pigurnov, on actions of partisan brigades and on Fascist atrocities.
15 June 1942 9 l. F. 135. Materials of German command on fight with the partisans, sent by TSSHPD to BSHPD.
1942 54 l. FF. 141 – 241. Headquarters of united partisan brigades: • Directions of central and higher organs to headquarters. • Correspondence and dispatches of headquarters on status of partisan movement in South-Western districts of Orlovsky region. • Orders, operational memoranda and correspondence of headquarters with partisan formations on battle activities. • Operational plans, intelligence, reports and dispatches on military actions, sent to headquarters by partisan formations. • Documents of headquarters and partisan detachments on reconnaissance and diversion work. • Information on fighting and numerical complement of partisan brigades and detachments.
1942 – 1943 9650 l. F. 214, ll. 30 – 32. Statement on Fascist atrocities against peaceful population of Suzemsky region.
1 June 1942 FF. 237 – 241. Intelligence on fighting and numerical complement of partisan detachments, timing of their formation, their commanders and commissars, armament, outcome of battle activities and distribution of troops.
1942 – 1943 544 l. FF. 242 – 263. Political department of headquarters of united partisan brigades:
Orders and directives of higher organs; political dispatches, reports, reports of partisan detachments; informational materials.
1942 – 1943 2208 l. F. 246. Appeals to partisans and of partisans to kolkhozniks of Riazansky district. Notice of political department of united partisan detachments of Western regions to TSSHPD (central headquarters of partisan movement) on taking of 41 prisoners – Hungarian Jews.
12 July 1942 – 29 January 1943 120 l. F. 249. Informational materials to political report of head of political department. November – December 1942 28 l. F. 255. Letters and notices of partisans and population in occupied territory, statements on atrocities of German Fascist occupiers, etc.
1942 144 l. F. 261. Records of interrogations of deserters and information on the enemy. Statements on atrocities committed by the Fascists.
LL. 13 - 17. Record of interrogation of prisoner Abraham Samuel, soldier in Hungarian Jewish workers company 108/58.
LL. 46 – 47. Intelligence information on sentiments of population in 7 occupied districts of the region, including in connection with annihilation of Jews.
1942 140 l. F. 262. Documents captured from the police, orders in battle with partisans, orders of Navlinsky regional authorities to village elders.
1943 70 l. F. 263. Documents of elders and police, captured by partisans.
1943 97 l. FF. 264 – 296. Headquarters of Southern operational group:
Orders and instructions of Central and higher organs; orders, correspondence of headquarters with BSHPD and partisan brigades; reports, dispatches, operational memoranda of partisan formations, sent to headquarters.
1943 3145 l. FF. 297 – 820. Orders, intelligence, reports, correspondence and other documents of partisan brigades and detachments. Historical intelligence on activities of partisan detachments. Daily journals of commanders and commissars.
1942 – 1943 37085 l. D. 563. Reconnaissance dispatches, secret intelligence of headquarters of united partisan brigades. Communique on life in occupied regions.
November – December 1942 41 l. F. 744. Reports, communiques, journals of partisan detachment by name of Voroshilov. Leaflets- appeals to occupied population and youth, police, elders, and others. Statement on Fascist atrocities in village Novaya Pogoshch in Suzemsky region (l. 9).
May – December 1942 106 l. F. 816. Leaflets and copy of journal of G. Kulakov – commander of partisan detachment by name of D. N. Medvedev (famous detachment active first in Briansky region and later in Western Ukraine, in which served scout N. Kuznetsov).
LL. 1 – 18.Leaflets.
1941 – 1942 FF. 821 – 867. Documents included from other archives: Documents and historical information of partisan formations, journals, letters, poems and songs of partisans, personal documents.
1941 – 1944 2571 l. F. 824. Copy of report of scout L. I. Granitovaya to reconnaissance department of Western headquarters of partisan movement «On economic and political situation in occupied areas of Orlovsky region».
7 January 1943 9 l. F. 858. Records of village meetings, instructions of German authorities. Descriptions of forest resource in Briansky region. Documents in German language.
February – March 1943 Number of sheets not indicated F. 867. Copies of certificates on enemy losses brought on by partisan formations of BSHPD for period from September 1941 to September 1943, and on damages caused by German Fascist occupiers in Orlovsky region. Informational notes on conditions of Briansk and Orlovsky regions on day of their liberation.
1973 7 l.
Fund R-2327 – Starodubsky regional executive committee (RIK).
Inventory 1.
F. 6. Statements and lists taking stock of atrocities of German Fascist occupiers.
USSHMM holdings include ll. 52, 60, 78, 79, 80 – 97, 107 – 110 from this archive.
1944 116 l.
Fund R-2385 – Briansky city council.
Inventory 1.
F. 21, ll. 23 – 27 – On placement of specialized camp for prisoners of war (decision of city council on 11 November 1943).
Disk 3
Fund R-6 – Executive committee of Briansky regional council.
Inventory 1.
Part 1 – 187 l. USHMM has 48 sheets, 12 documents from this archive. Part 2 – 94 l. USHMM has 56 sheets from this archive.
F. 85 – Certificate on burned out villages in Briansky region in period of occupation and testimonies of 22 regional political authorities sent to local political authorities on burned out villages and annihilated peaceful population.
1971 – 1972 152 l.
Fund R-1150 – Executive committee of Klintsovsky city council.
Inventory 2 for years 1943 – 1964.
F. 8. Register of lost persons (lists of those killed and driven away to Germany) and materials on calculation of losses.
In lists of those killed, 343 families were primarily Jews.
1944 19 l.
Fund R-1935 – Surazhsky regional executive committee (RIK).
Inventory 2 for years 1943 – 1962.
F. 169. Statement on atrocities committed by occupiers.
USHMM has ll. 6, 7, 9, 10 from this archive.
October 1943 11 l. F. 169a. Materials on damages in Surazhsky region.
USHMM has ll. 50, 88 – 90, 91 –93, 101, 106, 128, 133, 141 from this archive.
1944 153 l.
Fund R-2608 – Diat’kovsky regional executive committee (RIK).
Inventory 1.
F. 43. Statements and rolls taking stock of atrocities of German Fascist occupiers in the region.
1944 271 l.
Fund R-6 – Executive committee of Briansky regional council.
Inventory 1.
F. 54. (Part 1 and Part 2). Briansky regional committee assisting in work of the Extraordinary State Commission (ChGK). Statements on taking stock of atrocities of German Fascist occupiers in districts of Briansky region.
1945 281 l.
Fund R-85 – Briansky province executive committee council (Gubispolkom).
Inventory 1 for years 1918 – 1924.
F. 855, ll. 96 – 104. Statistical information on nationality composition of population in Briansky province in population census for 1920.
Fund R-112 – Briansky province land management.
Inventory 1.
F. 2095, ll. 165 –175. On land settlement of Jewish workers from 1925 to 1927 (committee report of Briansky province Gubispolkom.
1927
Fund R-1928 – Trubchevsky regional executive committee (RIK).
Inventory 2 for years 1943 – 1955.
F. 7a. Summary of information on damages and list of citizens taken away to German concentration camps.
L. 77. Execution of Jews of city of Trubchevsk on 20 November 1941.
1943 – 1944 171 l.
Fund R-2593 – Navlinsky district management in Lokotsky region.
Inventory 1 – 4 files for 1941 – 1943.
F. 3. Statements on atrocities of German Fascist occupiers on territory of Navlinsky and Suzemsky districts in Orlovsky region, prepared by leaders of partisan detachments.
1942 8 l.
Fund R-85 – Briansky province executive committee council (Gubispolkom).
Inventory 1 for 1918 – 1924.
F. 855, ll. 96 – 104. Statistical information on nationality composition of population of Briansky province according to population census of 1920.
Inventory 2 for 1925 – 1929.
F. 1615. Excerpt from record of meeting of committee on land settlement of Jewish workers at presidium of Council of nationalities of Soviet Union (KOMZET) and records of meetings of Gubispolkom on organization of such committees in place.
1927 16 l.
Fund R-89 – Briansky regional executive committee council (Okrispolkom).
Inventory 1 for 1929 – 1930.
F. 435 (part 1), l.334. Decree of Briansky region political authorities on shutting down of synagogue in city of Briansk.
7 February 1929
Fund R- 1777 – Kletniansky regional authorities in Briansky region.
Inventory 1 – 148 files for 1941 – 1943 (46993 l.).
Contents: Decrees, instructions and decisions of Briansky district authorities, regional authorities, head of regional police; records of interrogations of citizens, search orders, decisions on charges against citizens connected to partisans; lists of policemen and soldiers of people’s defense lost by hands of partisans; lists of personnel of regional authorities, police defense, burgomasters, elders, workers and employees of enterprises and institutions of Kletniansky region; information on payment of wages; orders for payment of poll and land taxes, information on availability of provisions; correspondence with Briansky regional authorities on taxation, collection and wages and with elders of rural authorities on completion of deliveries of goods and firewood; lists of residents of village Kletnia, villages in the region, etc.
Of particular interest are detailed instructions on handling of Jews in order of Head of Briansky regional authorities to heads of districts on 15 December 1941, f.114, l. 320.
USHMM has 3 sheets from documents of this archive: List of Jews living in village of Kletnia in Briansky region, f. 77, ll. 1-1. Leaflet on acceptance for work of assistants-volunteers, f.117, l.12.
Fund R-2419 – Statistical administration of Briansky region.
Inventory 2a.
F. 805. Materials on population census for year 1959 in Briansky region (distribution of population by nationality and mother tongue).
Number of sheets not indicated
Fund R-2521 – Editorial office of newspaper «Golos naroda» - organ of Lokotsky regional authorities
Inventory 1 – 5 of files for 1942 – 1943 (282 l.).
In history of Russian collaborationism during war years, an important place is occupied by the so- called Lokotsky republic. In 1941 Lokot’ was a small town in Brasovsky region, then Orlovsky, and now Briansky region, located south of Briansk. In it resided 6000 residents. In November 1941, a month after occupation of Lokot’ by German troops, as back-up of command of 2nd tank army, was formed a Lokotsky regional self-government, and later a para-military police, named Russian liberation national army («RONA») to fight the partisans. In addition, leaders of self-government, K. Voskoboinikov and B. Kaminsky, formed a «National socialist Russian party» («Vitiaz’»).
In November 1941 Voskoboinikov and Kaminsky established a printing press and began issuing a newspaper «Golos naroda» (“People’s voice”), calling for collaboration with the occupiers.
F 1. Orders of Lokotsky regional self-government; newspaper files: «Golos naroda», «Pogarskaya gazeta», «Bulleten’».
1942 – 1943 61 l. F. 2. Orders of uber-burgomaster of Lokotsky region, deputy burgomaster, regional commander, elders of Brasovsky region, etc. Newspaper files: «Golos naroda», «Dmitrovskaya gazeta», «Bulleten’».
L. 7. «Golos naroda», №3(41) of 15 January 1943, with. 4. Anti-Semitic «Song about Soviet «rodina»(homeland) by V. Serbov.
1942 –1943 75 l. F. 3. Newspaper file of «Golos naroda».
1942 72 l. F. 4. Newspaper file of «Golos naroda»
1942 – 1943 73 l.
Fund R-2546 – Archives department of Briansky region.
Brief reports on occupation of districts and towns in Briansky region in 1941 – 1943 and their liberation by Soviet troops for 1968.
Inventory 1.
F. 7, l.13 – Trubchevksy region. F. 10, ll. 17, 24 – Klimovsky region. F. 11, l. 19 – Zhiriatinsky region. F. 12, l.10 – Kletniansky region. F. 15, l. 6 – Navlinsky region. F. 16, l.11 – Mglinsky region. F. 17, l.13 – Komarichsky region. F. 18, ll. 5, 15 – Pogarsky region. F. 19, ll. 1, 7 – Rognedinsky region. F. 20, ll. 10, 15 – Sevsky region. F. 21, l. 21 – Suzemsky region. F. 23, l. 5 – Starodubsky region. F. 27, ll. 11, 17 – Novozybkovksy region. F. 28, ll. 8, 24 – town of Zlynk. F. 29, l. 7 – Vygonichsky region. F. 30, l. 4 – town of Pochep. F. 31, l. 4 – Zhukovksy region. F. 33, l. 4 – Brasovsky region. F. 35, l. 4 – Krasnogorsky region. F. 36, ll. 5, 6 – town of Klintsy. F. 66, l. 1 – Unechsky region. F. 76, l. 7 – Diat’kovsky region. F. 123, l. 1 – Dubrovsky region. F. 199, l. 2 – Krasnogorsky region. F. 225, ll. 22, 23 – Brief historical information on concentration camp for war prisoners №252 in town of Bezhitsa in Briansky region (1942 – 1948).
Fund R-2590 – Lokotsky region self-government.
Inventory 1 – 4 files for 1942 – 1943.
F. 1. Orders of burgomaster of Lokotsky district government and regional self-government, head of war division of district government, regional elder.
30 l. F. 2. Orders of burgomaster of Lokotsky district government and regional self-government. Correspondence of Lokotsky regional self-government with elders and others on carrying out of orders, care for German graves, payment of taxes, collection for winter assistance to German army, etc.
18 l. F. 3. Orders of uber-burgomaster of Lokotsky regional self-government, burgomaster of Komarichsky regional government. Decree of German army on registration of population, issuance of passports as proof of identity. Instructions on preparation of records of citizens’ property in the region. Correspondence of regional self-government with elders and other officials on carrying out of orders, sending citizens to work in Germany and other issues.
L. 35. Document of German army on registration of residents in 1942 with instructions on registration of Jews.
66 l.
Fund P-1 – Briansky province Party committee.
From 1920, under the Department of Agitation and Propaganda, functioned a sub- divisions on minority nationalities and a Jewish section. Documents of provincial authorities contain various statistical and other information on Jews in the region in the pre-war period. Inventory 1 – 2363 files for 1919 – 1929.
F. 1703. Materials on work with minority nationalities.
LL. 200 – 203.Information on fight with anti-Semitism and Jewish chauvinism.
1929 364 l. F. 2359. Record of meeting and work plan for January – March 1929 of Jewish bureau at Briansky province Party authorities.
1929 4 l.
Fund P-451 – Party archive of Briansky regional authorities.
Inventory 1.
F. 258, l. 4. Certificate of regional authorities on issue of Communist Party department of agitation and propaganda «Information on partisan movement during the years of Great Patriotic War in Orlovsky region» on 2 February 1961.
Certificate contains information on number of partisans, broken down by nationalities. It is noted, in part, that up to November 1942 there were 459 Jewish partisans.
Fund P-1650 – Briansky headquarters of partisan movement during Great Patriotic War (1941 – 1945).
F. 136. Materials on fascist propaganda methods among intelligentsia during the period of occupation of Orlovsky region.
L. 5. Teaching by Germans of Jewish question for teachers.
L. 17. Approach toward issue of annihilation of Jews by Germans by lecturers of Orlovsky regional authorities (1942).
1942 – 1943 23 l.
Disk 4
Фонд Р-2608 – Коллекция документальных материалов периода оккупации Брянской области 1941 – 1943 годов.
F. 2. Instructions of Klintsovky regional authorities, Unechsky regional police, burgomaster of Klintsovsky region; provisonal identity documents of citizens of Unechsky region. Correspondence of civil authorities of Unech with elders of village communities, including on procedures for registering marriages, economic issues, etc.
L. 20. Instructions of town elder and Unech region on registration of Jews capable of work on 24 December 1941. L. 283.Instructions for burgomasters on ban on marriages to Jews (undated). November 1941 – December 1943 285 l. F. 3. Instructions of civil police of town of Unech. Records of interrogations. Statements on conduct of searches and arrests. Lists of policemen, Communists, Jews, and others.
L. 3. List of Jews in Unechsky region.
November 1941 – May 1942 166 l. F. 9. Files of occupation newspapers: «Starodubskaya gazeta», «Novyi put’».
October 1941 – January 1943 64 l. F 10. Files of occupation newspapers: «Novyi put’», «Klintsovskaya gazeta».
«Klinovskaya gazeta» of 18 October 1941.S.2. Anti-Semitic article - «Treatment of Jews».
«Novyi put’» (Klintsy), № 3, 31 December 1941. S.2. Anti-Semitic article by M. Gretsky, burgomaster of town and region of Klintsy.
October – November 1941 22 l. F. 11. Brochure «General foundation for national workers solidarity»
1941 22 l. F. 12. Propaganda materials of occupying powers in Russian language (newspapers, placards, notices, leaflets, appeals).
Rare anti-Semitic cartoon in journal «Bich» №8 for August 1943.
1941 – 1943 61 l. D. 14. Orders and instructions of Klintsovsky regional authorities. Records of meetings of burgomasters of the region. Correspondence of regional authorities, including on presentation of information on escaped war prisoners, formation of self-defense detachments against communist terror. Information on those oppressed by Soviet power, etc.
L. 263. On preparation of lists of Jewish physicians.
June 1942 – April 1943. 281 l. F. 15. Orders and instructions of Klintsovsky regional authorities, Ponurovsky regional service of order. Reports of heads of districts. Statistical information on population. Materials on activities of service order. Weekly political reviews for radio and reporters, etc.
L. 290. Information on presence of Jews in Ponurovsky region for April 1943.
May 1942 – August 1943 436 l. F. 17. Orders of Klintsovsky regional authorities, Surazhsky regional service of order. Instructions for service of order. Lists of Communists, killed and wounded policemen, etc..
LL. 23 – 24.Exhortation of burgomaster of field commander’s office (March 1942). Includes rules for registration of Jews. LL. 32 – 34. Address of field commander’s office to town heads and elders, including anti-Semitic propaganda. L. 80. Decree of head of service of order of Surazhsky region of 31 March 1942 on detention of all suspects, «in particular Yids».
July 1942 – June 1943 95 l. F. 19. Orders and correspondence of Unechsky regional service of order, military commander’s office of town of Unech, Klintsovsky regional burgomaster, etc.
April 1942 - February 1943 270 l. F. 20. Decrees and correspondence of Likotsky regional authorities, Brasovsky regional authorities. List of fighters of Kaminsky detachment to fight partisans, decorated with orders of German command, etc.
July 1942 – July 1943 220 l. F. 21. Orders of Pochepsky commander’s office, instructions of burgomasters of Trubchevsky region. Records of regional meetings of burgomasters. Intelligence reports on women and young women of town of Pochep, living with Germans, persons who voluntarily left for Germany. Lists of former German protégées, etc.
January 1942 – April 1947 168 l. F. 22. Instructions of Navlinsky authorities and address of regional ortscommander’s office to population.
February – May 1942 2 l. F. 23. Orders of head of Kudilovsky civil police, etc.
L.8. Financial report of head of Zhudilovsky department of police, March - April 1942. Contains information on earnings from sale of Jewish property.
1942 9 l. F. 26. Information from partisan reconnaissance on activities of German command and Briansky town authorities.
November 1942 2 l. F. 27. Rules of service of Russian police. Instructions on fighting partisans.
L.1. Rules required of each police worker «merciless fight against Bolsheviks, Yids and stooges».
1942 17 l. F. 29. Documents on trip to Germany of residents of Briansky region (list, program, diary).
September 1942 Number of sheets not indicated F. 31. Files of collaborationist newspapers: «Sevsky listok», «Zaria», «Novaya zhizn’», «Klich», «Rech’», «Dobrovolets», «Svoboda», «Dneprovskaya gazeta», «Boyevoi put’», «Pogarskaya gazeta».
March 1942 – August 1943 127 l. F. 38. Correspondence of Briansky regional authorities with burgomaster of Briansk. Letters of Russian citizens, sent from Germany, etc.
1942 – 1943 16 l. F. 41. Orders of Briansky town authorities. German position on institution of service of civil order. Records of teachers’ conference in town of Briansk. Lists of employees of Briansk town authorities, elders and policemen of town of Briansk, etc. Reports of chief of Briansk police on investigation of persons serving Germans in town police.
1943 – November 1945 387 l. F. 42. Orders of uber-burgomaster of Lokotsky region commander brigadier B. Kaminsky. Correspondence of self-government of Brasovsky region on economic and organizational issues.
March – July 1943 128 l. F. 43. Decision of political authorities of Orlovsky regional council and bureau of regional Communist Party authorities on calculation of losses and atrocities. Instructions of Extraordinary government committee (ChGK) «On rules for determining losses caused to citizens of Soviet Union», etc. 1943 – 1944 271 l. F. 47. Reports of village policemen, district police officers to head of Surazhsky regional service of order on activities of partisans and various incidents and head of regional service of order to head of Klintsovsky regional service of order on crime situation in the region.
January – September 1943 117 l. F. 50. Invoice accounts, records of headquarters of «RONA» (division in the SS) and Lokotsky theatre. Russian anti-Bolshevik newspaper «Rul’» of 20 May 1944, etc.
1943 – 1944 188 l. F. 51. Orders, lists of soldiers and commanders, identity cards of Eastern battalion 619 of Russian-German army. April 1943 – November 1947 253 l. F. 68. Information on repatriated Soviet citizens and results of secret service operations among them. Records of interrogations of witnesses on affairs of the repatriates, etc.
1945 – 1946 261 l. F. 70. List of residents of Kletniansky region, serving in institutions and punitive organs of occupying regime, repatriated from Germany.
1949 12 l.
Fund P-1 – Briansky province Communist Party authorities.
Beginning 1920 at Agitation and Propaganda Department, functioned a sub-division on minority nationalities and a Jewish section. Documents of provincial party authorities contain various statistical and other information on Jews in the region in pre-war period.
F. 1392. Records of expanded plenum of Jewish bureau at the provincial party authorities, information of provincial authorities on work with minority nationalities. 1927 52 l.
F. 2116. Records of meeting of bureau of Jewish section at Starodubsky Party authorities.
31 December 1928 8 l.