M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus) History of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia The Central Archive for the October Revolution of the Belorussian Soviet Republic was established in the city of Minsk on 28 May 1927. The Archive moved to the city of Mogilev in 1930. The Archive underwent reorganization in 1938, and became the State Archive of the October Revolution and the Socialistic Construction. Following the outbreak of the war in 1941, the Archive's activities stopped. The Archive renewed its work in the city of Gomel in January 1944 and moved to the city of Minsk in July 1944. Its name was changed to the State Archive of Belorussia in 1993. After documentation from the Central Archive of the Communist Party in Belorussia was transferred to the Archive in June 1995, its name was changed to the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia. Included in the collection: Documentation of the Central Bureau of Statistics of Belorussia regarding the Jewish population in Cherikov during 1920-1935; Collection of Belorussian sources regarding various matters, from the 1920s and until the 1990s; Lists of residents who were evacuated from Belorussia to the interior areas of the Soviet Union from 1942; Documentation of the headquarters of the partisans movement in Belorussia, 1941-1944; Documentation of underground organizations of the Communist Party and the Komsomol movement in Belorussia, 1941-1944; Documentation of partisans groups in Belorussia, 1941-1944; Documentation of the Committee for the History of the Great Patriotic War, affiliated with the TsK KP (b) in Belorussia, 1942-1946; Documentation of the ChGK in Belorussia, 1943-1945; Documentation of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in Belorussia, 1945-1953; Documentation of the anti-Fascist underground in Belorussia, 1944-1962; Documentation of the German authorities in Belorussia, 1941-1944: Documentation of the Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Government of the Belorussia Region) in Minsk, 1941-1944; Documentation of the Transportkomandatur (Head Administration of Railroads) in Minsk, 1941-1944; Documentation of the Todt Organisation (OT) in Minsk, 1942-1944; Documentation of the administration of the Police and the Gendarmerie in the Baranowitschi district, 1941-1944; Documentation of the Bielaruskaya Krayovaya Abarona - BKA (Belorussian National Defense Headquarters) in Minsk, 1944; Documentation of the Gebietskommissariat (district government) in Minsk, 1941-1944; Collection of documents of the German occupation authorities in Belorussia, 1941-1945; Documentation of the Heeresgruppe Mitte (Armies Group Center) in Belorussia, 1941-1944; Documentation belonging to the Gendarmerie unit in the Khoyniki district, 1942-1943.