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Records and related Information from archives of Former Soviet Union and other countries, collected by our partners.
Our goal is to promote the study of Jewish genealogy. We are collecting and organizing the Jewish genealogical information found in the archives of the countries and regions that were part of the Russian Empire prior to 1917 revolution and after.
We invite people to share archives data by publishing them on here, which provides quality platform for archival storage and publishing.
Archives of the different countries, where you can find records about inhabitants of Russian Empire and Soviet Union
Russia
Belarus
Estonia
Latvia
Moldova
Ukraine
Russia
 List of Jewish documents kept by archives of Russian Federation.
Book in memory of warriors Jews, killed in the fight with Nazism (in Russian)
Feat of the people «Подвиг народа» (in Russian)    - documents of WWII
Memorial «Мемориал»  (in Russian)                                - more than 17 millions names of people, killed in action (1941-1945) 
Victims of political terror in USSR (in Russian)            - list of people, persecuted as enemies of state, sorted by surname
Killed in actions (in Russian)
Belarus
List of Metric Books kept by Minsk Archive
List of  Revision Lists kept by Minsk Archive (Bobruisk and Novogrudok districts)
List of  Revision and Residents Lists kept by Minsk Archive (Mogilev province)
JewishGen (JG) Belarus Database, indexed by places and surnames:
Revision lists
Birth records
Marriage and Divorce records
Death records
List of Metric Books  and Revision lists scanned by FamilySearch
Estonia
SAAGA (National Archive of Estonia and Tallinn City Archive)
Estonian Jewry Archive
Latvia
List of names from Riga ghetto.
Latvian State Archive
Search residents of Latvia (1918-1940)
Latvian SIG
Moldova
JewishGen Romania and Moldova Database
Ukraine
List of documents kept by different Ukrainian archives
Documents scanned from Ukrainian archives:
         The Alex Krakovsky project
         The Vic Chymshyt project (from Rivne and Lutsk archives)      
Note: The most of archive materials were written in Russian.
Family names extracted from different documents
Additional sources
Ukrainian towns with Jewish records in Polish archives
List of places of Kiev province (1897)
List of towns and shtetls of Volhynia province (1900)  
List of renamed cities in Ukraine

Book of Memory    searchable data base of born on Ukrainian territory and killed in action  in 1941-1945 (in Russian)   
Jewish records in the State Archives of Odessa region
UK
USA
Israel
UK
London, Montefiore Endowment:
Residents of Holy Land, arrived from Russian Empire before year 1875
USA

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 American Jewish Joint
Distribution
Committee Archives

http://archives.jdc.org

JDC  Archives Names Index  includes names from several lists related to Russia and the Soviet Union.

Read documents by topics:
         List of Russian Remittances
        
Aid to Rabbis in the Russian Empire and Palestine, 1916
       
Jews from the Russian Empire Requesting Contact with Relatives, 1917
        Lists of Ukranian Jews, Grouped by Town, Requesting Assistance from U.S. Relatives, 1921
       
Beneficiaries of JDC’s Free Parcel Service in the Soviet Union, 1943-1945


Read about Agro-Joint:
“Beyond Relief: JDC in Interwar Ukraine and Crimea”
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​Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
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​Hias Database
Israel
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