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Records on Russian and Soviet navy (1696-1940) - FSB Offices Contain records from the Lenin and Stalin era of arrests, trials, executions, and rehabilitation proceedings of the former KGB offices located in the same city (or region) in which the person was arrested.
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Some of the major records sources that can be used for genealogy research in Russia include:
- Birth, marriage, and death records were kept by some towns as early as 1500s
- Birth, marriage, and death records have been recorded by the government from 1919 to the present
- Russian Empire Census of 1897 is the only complete population census conducted in Imperial Russia
- Russian Census of 2002 is the only population census conducted in the post-Soviet Russia
- Probate records were kept by the towns and counties of individuals who owned property, along with their relatives
- Churches kept records of the christenings, marriages, deaths, or other information about their members
- Civilian service records of government work
- Newspapers were written in many areas and time periods that contain information such as notices of marriages, notices of death, and obituaries
- Military records
- Town and county histories about the settlers and their families
- Naturalization and citizenship records
- Ship passenger lists, tax lists, and town records were recorded for many areas