Russia Genealogical Records
Russia Birth & Baptism Records
An index to and images of books recording the baptism, marriage and burial of around 1 million people. The records cover people of German extraction.
An index to over 170,000 various birth and baptism records, listing parents' names.
A small index to several-hundred-thousand records from select countries.
Russia Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to and images of books recording the baptism, marriage and burial of around 1 million people. The records cover people of German extraction.
An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.
An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.
Russia Death & Burial Records
An index to and images of books recording the baptism, marriage and burial of around 1 million people. The records cover people of German extraction.
A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.
An index of around 100,000 death and burial records. The index may include names of relatives and details of the death.
Newspapers Covering Russia
An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.
An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.
An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.
Russia Immigration & Travel Records
A record of over 600,000 immigrants arriving in the United States; being predominantly those escaping the Irish famine. Records may contain numerous useful details, such as age or year of birth, native county and intended destination.
Abstracts of details found in passenger lists, passport records, correspondence and seaman records, which may list name, age, gender, birthplace, occupation, residence, destination, emigration date and more. Most passengers were traveling to North America.
Indexed images of over 400,000 obituaries of Germans from Russia who died in North America.
Transcripts of passenger lists recording over 500,000 Russians who arrived in New York. Includes ages, birthplaces and other details.
Russia Military Records
An index to and images records detailing the incarceration of 1.34 million military personnel, civilians, diplomats, missionaries & merchant seamen who were held as prisoners of war. The records cover British prisoners held by foreign powers and non-British prisoners held by Britain.
Russia Court & Legal Records
Created by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II to document German crimes during the occupation, the Soviet Extraordinary Commission compiled testimonial information gathered from the evidence of neighbors, eyewitnesses, and survivors.
Official reports relating activities of American interest in the Soviet Union, prior to World War II, including accounts of conferences, communist activities, living conditions, oil interests, trade unions, the railway, and collective farms. Other countries, including Germany and China are featured in some of the correspondence.
Russia Directories & Gazetteers
A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.
Useful for locating places, this searchable gazetteer gives brief details, latitude and longitude for more than 1.5 million features, places and regions throughout the world.
Russia Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Russia Obituaries
Indexed images of over 400,000 obituaries of Germans from Russia who died in North America.
Russia Histories & Books
Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.
Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.
Created by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II to document German crimes during the occupation, the Soviet Extraordinary Commission compiled testimonial information gathered from the evidence of neighbors, eyewitnesses, and survivors.
Official reports relating activities of American interest in the Soviet Union, prior to World War II, including accounts of conferences, communist activities, living conditions, oil interests, trade unions, the railway, and collective farms. Other countries, including Germany and China are featured in some of the correspondence.
Russia Occupation & Business Records
A database of cricket scores and players.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Russia
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
The lineages of Russian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
A collection of legacy trees submitted by Ancestry users containing nearly 400 million individuals.
Russia Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
The lineages of Russian royalty and nobility, with biographical details and extracts from historic documents.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Russia Church Records
An index to and images of books recording the baptism, marriage and burial of around 1 million people. The records cover people of German extraction.
Russia Maps
An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.
Russia Reference Works
A work which list the history and etymology of Jewish surnames found in the Ukraine, Belorussia, Bessarabia, Lithuania, and Russia.
A database containing variants of 100,000s of given names used by Jews.
Historical Description
Owing to the war and to two revolutions, the old Russian Empire is now in a state of upheaval and anarchy, and it is impossible to foretell what will be its ultimate frontiers and kind of Government. For the present, one can only be fairly certain that future Russia will not include either Poland or Finland, which will remain independent States. But even without these two States, Russia occupies an immense territory in Europe and Asia, with unlimited resources and with an enormous population (roughly 180 millions), which will ensure an ample supply of comparatively cheap labour.
Russia is predominantly an agricultural country, and though some parts of its territory are unsuitable for cultivation, it possesses on the other hand in the South an immense belt of very fertile land-the so-called black soil, and an equally fertile and still larger wheat growing area in Siberia. Russia grows wheat, rye, flax (chiefly in the Northern provinces), hemp, cotton (in Central Asiatic provinces), tobacco, sugar beet, etc. Cattle raising is also an important industry, as there are very rich grazing lands, for instance in the Don region.
Russia exported grain, butter, eggs, poultry, bacon and other produce, hides, hemp, flax, timber, sugar, etc.
The timber wealth of Russia is practically unlimited, and though Russia has been exporting very large quantities of it, it may be safely said that its export could be enormously increased as soon as many districts in the North are tapped, which have been left untouched, owing to the absence of proper ways of communication.
The output of oil in Russia-a commodity which assumes a greater and greater importance-formed a very large part of the total world output of oil. The chief oil bearing areas are in the Caucasus near the Caspian Sea, but there are also other still unexplored large deposits of oil in other regions, so that supplies of oil from Russia are likely to play a great part in the future.
Large deposits of coal-without which no industry can exist -are found all over Russia and Siberia. The best known are those in the Donetz region and in Poland, and before the war their output was practically sufficient to cover the home requirements.
It would be impossible to give an adequate idea of the mineral wealth of Russia in the space available. It may be mentioned however that, besides being the chief source of supply of platinum for the world, Russia possesses inexhaustible deposits of gold, silver, iron, manganese, copper, rare metals, etc., etc.
Russian manufacturing industry reached a very high degree of development before the war. It has a large number of engineering and metallurgical works, shipbuilding yards, spinning and weaving mills, paper mills, boot factories, sugar mills, breweries and distilleries, chemical works, glass works, etc., etc. Although Russian engineering industry was highly developed, it could not supply even a small part of the machinery required for home consumption, so that Russia formed an excellent market for foreign manufacturers.
Germany had a lion’s share in the Russian trade partly on account of lower prices, but chiefly on account of the extended credit which German manufacturer were able to give owing to their knowledge of the Russian conditions. Another factor which weighed is their favour was that they quoted prices for . goods delivered to the consumer’s place, duty paid. As British manufacturers would only quote in most cases prices F.O.B, British port, Russians declined to have the trouble of calculating shipping and railway freight, duty, etc.
In view of the present unsettled conditions in Russia and of the utter collapse of Russian currency (the rate of exchange being 30.000—40.000 roubles to £, instead of 9.40—9.60 before the war), trade with Russia is practically out of the question, but as soon as more normal conditions prevail, Russia will be for a long time a market that will greedily absorb all kinds of goods.
Among the goods for which there will be an unlimited demand for years to come may be mentioned agricultural machinery and implements, rolling stock, rails, tools and machine tools, cutlery, mining machinery, spinning and weaving machinery, sugar machinery, electrical machinery motor vehicles of all kinds, cotton and woollen goods leather, stationery, soap, perfumery, etc., etc.
Preparations ought to be made, therefore, to begins business as soon as it becomes possible, so as to forestall foreign competitors, and it might be a good plan to have catalogues ready, printed in Russian.
In preparing catalogues for Russia, it must be born in mind that Russian measurements differ but little from the English ones. Below will be found a short table Russian weights and measures.
Note.-Russian inches and feet are the same a English :—
1 vershok = 1 ¾ inches.
1 arsheen = 16 vershok = 28--inches.
1 sagen = 7 ft. = 3 arsheen.
1 verst = 500 sagen = 3,500--ft.
1 Russian lb. = 32 lots = 96--zolotnik = 0.9 lb. English.
(1 lb. Russian = 409 gr., 1 lb. English = 454 gr.) 1 pound = 40 lbs. Russian = 36 lbs.
Before the war, the number of ordinary newspapers and trade and technical publications in Russia, though by no means in proportion to the size of the population was fairly large and rapidly increasing. With the exception of a few sheets published by the various Soviets and generally called “lzvestia” (News), there is now practically no Press.
Most Common Surnames in Russia
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivanova | 927,695 | 1:155 | |
| 2 | Ivanov | 881,461 | 1:164 | |
| 3 | Kuznetsova | 454,051 | 1:317 | |
| 4 | Kuznetsov | 436,730 | 1:330 | |
| 5 | Petrov | 429,896 | 1:335 | |
| 6 | Smirnova | 428,055 | 1:337 | |
| 7 | Magomedov | 385,086 | 1:374 | |
| 8 | Petrova | 383,208 | 1:376 | |
| 9 | Smirnov | 366,247 | 1:394 | |
| 10 | Popov | 365,925 | 1:394 | |
| 11 | Popova | 365,778 | 1:394 | |
| 12 | Volkova | 303,909 | 1:474 | |
| 13 | Novikova | 257,629 | 1:559 | |
| 14 | Morozova | 240,256 | 1:600 | |
| 15 | Sokolova | 230,120 | 1:626 | |
| 16 | Pavlova | 223,226 | 1:646 | |
| 17 | Romanova | 221,963 | 1:649 | |
| 18 | Volkov | 219,101 | 1:658 | |
| 19 | Shevchenko | 218,170 | 1:661 | |
| 20 | Andreeva | 215,723 | 1:668 | |
| 21 | Vasilev | 211,487 | 1:681 | |
| 22 | Vasileva | 209,526 | 1:688 | |
| 23 | Mikhaylova | 209,420 | 1:688 | |
| 24 | Novikov | 205,699 | 1:701 | |
| 25 | Makarova | 205,048 | 1:703 | |
| 26 | Morozov | 194,993 | 1:739 | |
| 27 | Sergeeva | 188,877 | 1:763 | |
| 28 | Pavlov | 188,495 | 1:765 | |
| 29 | Zaytseva | 187,519 | 1:769 | |
| 30 | Sokolov | 186,252 | 1:774 | |
| 31 | Aliev | 182,109 | 1:791 | |
| 32 | Mikhaylov | 181,262 | 1:795 | |
| 33 | Nikolaeva | 179,334 | 1:804 | |
| 34 | Romanov | 179,055 | 1:805 | |
| 35 | Zakharova | 178,591 | 1:807 | |
| 36 | Makarov | 177,125 | 1:814 | |
| 37 | Stepanova | 176,194 | 1:818 | |
| 38 | Lebedeva | 173,529 | 1:831 | |
| 39 | Kozlova | 173,081 | 1:833 | |
| 40 | Nikitina | 172,419 | 1:836 | |
| 41 | Egorova | 171,174 | 1:842 | |
| 42 | Egorov | 168,709 | 1:854 | |
| 43 | Kozlov | 165,374 | 1:871 | |
| 44 | Nikolaev | 163,507 | 1:881 | |
| 45 | Stepanov | 161,534 | 1:892 | |
| 46 | Andreev | 159,923 | 1:901 | |
| 47 | Yakovleva | 156,775 | 1:919 | |
| 48 | Zakharov | 155,349 | 1:928 | |
| 49 | Kovalenko | 154,502 | 1:933 | |
| 50 | Frolova | 154,073 | 1:935 | |
| 51 | Orlova | 153,333 | 1:940 | |
| 52 | Sergeev | 149,836 | 1:962 | |
| 53 | Bondarenko | 148,553 | 1:970 | |
| 54 | Nikitin | 145,844 | 1:988 | |
| 55 | Zaytsev | 144,972 | 1:994 | |
| 56 | Medvedev | 143,321 | 1:1,006 | |
| 57 | Kotova | 141,895 | 1:1,016 | |
| 58 | Orlov | 140,463 | 1:1,026 | |
| 59 | Belova | 138,500 | 1:1,041 | |
| 60 | Kravchenko | 138,139 | 1:1,043 | |
| 61 | Borisova | 137,971 | 1:1,045 | |
| 62 | Mironova | 137,505 | 1:1,048 | |
| 63 | Alekseeva | 137,151 | 1:1,051 | |
| 64 | Frolov | 135,452 | 1:1,064 | |
| 65 | Kuzmina | 134,812 | 1:1,069 | |
| 66 | Kuzmin | 128,246 | 1:1,124 | |
| 67 | Yakovlev | 128,217 | 1:1,124 | |
| 68 | Magomedova | 125,039 | 1:1,153 | |
| 69 | Medvedeva | 124,265 | 1:1,160 | |
| 70 | Antonova | 123,273 | 1:1,169 | |
| 71 | Belov | 122,693 | 1:1,175 | |
| 72 | Lebedev | 122,451 | 1:1,177 | |
| 73 | Alekseev | 120,187 | 1:1,199 | |
| 74 | Dmitrieva | 119,461 | 1:1,206 | |
| 75 | Borisov | 119,232 | 1:1,209 | |
| 76 | Semenova | 116,710 | 1:1,235 | |
| 77 | Tarasova | 116,636 | 1:1,236 | |
| 78 | Melnikova | 115,591 | 1:1,247 | |
| 79 | Matveeva | 114,864 | 1:1,255 | |
| 80 | Vlasova | 113,108 | 1:1,274 | |
| 81 | Fedorova | 112,281 | 1:1,284 | |
| 82 | Polyakova | 111,164 | 1:1,296 | |
| 83 | Antonov | 110,247 | 1:1,307 | |
| 84 | Zhukova | 109,606 | 1:1,315 | |
| 85 | Tkachenko | 108,924 | 1:1,323 | |
| 86 | Tarasov | 107,953 | 1:1,335 | |
| 87 | Sidorov | 106,652 | 1:1,351 | |
| 88 | Ilina | 105,425 | 1:1,367 | |
| 89 | Filippova | 104,872 | 1:1,374 | |
| 90 | Kim | 104,617 | 1:1,378 | |
| 91 | Mironov | 103,596 | 1:1,391 | |
| 92 | Aleksandrova | 103,294 | 1:1,395 | |
| 93 | Dmitriev | 103,248 | 1:1,396 | |
| 94 | Sorokina | 103,122 | 1:1,398 | |
| 95 | Isaev | 102,807 | 1:1,402 | |
| 96 | Kolesnikova | 102,666 | 1:1,404 | |
| 97 | Guseva | 102,234 | 1:1,410 | |
| 98 | Danilova | 102,035 | 1:1,412 | |
| 99 | Kotov | 101,112 | 1:1,425 | |
| 100 | Matveev | 99,379 | 1:1,450 | |
| 101 | Sorokin | 99,102 | 1:1,454 | |
| 102 | Sidorova | 99,006 | 1:1,456 | |
| 103 | Timofeeva | 98,124 | 1:1,469 | |
| 104 | Maksimova | 98,072 | 1:1,470 | |
| 105 | Bogdanova | 98,053 | 1:1,470 | |
| 106 | Semenov | 97,409 | 1:1,480 | |
| 107 | Kazakova | 97,013 | 1:1,486 | |
| 108 | Fedorov | 96,745 | 1:1,490 | |
| 109 | Zhukov | 95,596 | 1:1,508 | |
| 110 | Abramova | 94,995 | 1:1,517 | |
| 111 | Grigoreva | 94,825 | 1:1,520 | |
| 112 | Melnikov | 94,632 | 1:1,523 | |
| 113 | Kalinina | 94,253 | 1:1,529 | |
| 114 | Osipova | 94,158 | 1:1,531 | |
| 115 | Vasilyeva | 93,411 | 1:1,543 | |
| 116 | Grigorev | 93,243 | 1:1,546 | |
| 117 | Karpova | 92,925 | 1:1,551 | |
| 118 | Nazarova | 92,892 | 1:1,552 | |
| 119 | Akhmedov | 92,221 | 1:1,563 | |
| 120 | Karpov | 92,095 | 1:1,565 | |
| 121 | Kulikova | 90,920 | 1:1,585 | |
| 122 | Goncharova | 90,299 | 1:1,596 | |
| 123 | Chernova | 90,273 | 1:1,597 | |
| 124 | Semyonov | 89,839 | 1:1,604 | |
| 125 | Gusev | 89,728 | 1:1,606 | |
| 126 | Danilov | 88,748 | 1:1,624 | |
| 127 | Vlasov | 88,469 | 1:1,629 | |
| 128 | Fyodorov | 88,286 | 1:1,632 | |
| 129 | Titova | 88,022 | 1:1,637 | |
| 130 | Filippov | 87,802 | 1:1,641 | |
| 131 | Semyonova | 87,508 | 1:1,647 | |
| 132 | Baranova | 87,428 | 1:1,648 | |
| 133 | Denisova | 87,300 | 1:1,651 | |
| 134 | Polyakov | 86,879 | 1:1,659 | |
| 135 | Davydova | 86,567 | 1:1,665 | |
| 136 | Isaeva | 85,757 | 1:1,681 | |
| 137 | Fomina | 85,405 | 1:1,688 | |
| 138 | Boyko | 85,392 | 1:1,688 | |
| 139 | Kolesnikov | 85,286 | 1:1,690 | |
| 140 | Fyodorova | 84,709 | 1:1,701 | |
| 141 | Bogdanov | 84,428 | 1:1,707 | |
| 142 | Belyaeva | 84,395 | 1:1,708 | |
| 143 | Titov | 83,417 | 1:1,728 | |
| 144 | Baranov | 83,169 | 1:1,733 | |
| 145 | Markova | 82,712 | 1:1,742 | |
| 146 | Timofeev | 82,573 | 1:1,745 | |
| 147 | Savchenko | 82,530 | 1:1,746 | |
| 148 | Abramov | 81,978 | 1:1,758 | |
| 149 | Efimova | 81,651 | 1:1,765 | |
| 150 | Kulikov | 81,542 | 1:1,767 | |
| 151 | Maksimov | 81,407 | 1:1,770 | |
| 152 | Fomin | 81,251 | 1:1,774 | |
| 153 | Tikhonova | 80,235 | 1:1,796 | |
| 154 | Ramazanov | 80,058 | 1:1,800 | |
| 155 | Marchenko | 79,930 | 1:1,803 | |
| 156 | Osipov | 79,085 | 1:1,822 | |
| 157 | Ibragimov | 78,464 | 1:1,837 | |
| 158 | Fedotova | 78,322 | 1:1,840 | |
| 159 | Kalinin | 78,321 | 1:1,840 | |
| 160 | Nazarov | 78,104 | 1:1,845 | |
| 161 | Gadzhiev | 77,917 | 1:1,850 | |
| 162 | Gavrilov | 77,915 | 1:1,850 | |
| 163 | Konovalova | 77,859 | 1:1,851 | |
| 164 | Gavrilova | 77,850 | 1:1,851 | |
| 165 | Aleksandrov | 77,740 | 1:1,854 | |
| 166 | Belyaev | 77,617 | 1:1,857 | |
| 167 | Chernov | 77,516 | 1:1,859 | |
| 168 | Kovaleva | 77,391 | 1:1,862 | |
| 169 | Sergeevna | 76,768 | 1:1,877 | |
| 170 | Ermakova | 76,470 | 1:1,885 | |
| 171 | Gerasimova | 76,468 | 1:1,885 | |
| 172 | Goncharov | 76,254 | 1:1,890 | |
| 173 | Vinogradova | 75,884 | 1:1,899 | |
| 174 | Alieva | 75,832 | 1:1,901 | |
| 175 | Gorbunova | 75,567 | 1:1,907 | |
| 176 | Filatova | 74,982 | 1:1,922 | |
| 177 | Kazakov | 74,681 | 1:1,930 | |
| 178 | Maltseva | 74,408 | 1:1,937 | |
| 179 | Chernykh | 74,370 | 1:1,938 | |
| 180 | Kiseleva | 73,610 | 1:1,958 | |
| 181 | Koroleva | 73,278 | 1:1,967 | |
| 182 | Kurbanov | 72,269 | 1:1,994 | |
| 183 | Konovalov | 70,977 | 1:2,031 | |
| 184 | Denisov | 70,962 | 1:2,031 | |
| 185 | Filatov | 70,703 | 1:2,038 | |
| 186 | Efimov | 69,941 | 1:2,061 | |
| 187 | Tikhonov | 69,891 | 1:2,062 | |
| 188 | Naumova | 69,550 | 1:2,072 | |
| 189 | Komarova | 69,255 | 1:2,081 | |
| 190 | Ovchinnikova | 69,023 | 1:2,088 | |
| 191 | Efremova | 68,925 | 1:2,091 | |
| 192 | Klimova | 68,509 | 1:2,104 | |
| 193 | Gerasimov | 68,152 | 1:2,115 | |
| 194 | Malysheva | 67,946 | 1:2,121 | |
| 195 | Fedotov | 67,835 | 1:2,125 | |
| 196 | Markov | 66,942 | 1:2,153 | |
| 197 | Potapova | 66,925 | 1:2,154 | |
| 198 | Davydov | 66,041 | 1:2,182 | |
| 199 | Vasilyev | 65,447 | 1:2,202 | |
| 200 | Kiselyov | 65,165 | 1:2,212 | |