Smolensk Oblast Genealogical Records
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast 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 Smolensk Oblast
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.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Smolensk Oblast Obituaries
Indexed images of over 400,000 obituaries of Germans from Russia who died in North America.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast Occupation & Business Records
A database of cricket scores and players.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Smolensk Oblast
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.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Smolensk Oblast Maps
An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.
Smolensk Oblast 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.
Most Common Surnames in Smolensk Oblast
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Russia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivanova | 12,773 | 1:77 | 1.38% | 1 |
| 2 | Ivanov | 12,255 | 1:81 | 1.39% | 2 |
| 3 | Novikova | 5,726 | 1:172 | 2.22% | 13 |
| 4 | Novikov | 4,828 | 1:204 | 2.35% | 24 |
| 5 | Petrov | 4,471 | 1:221 | 1.04% | 5 |
| 6 | Petrova | 3,764 | 1:262 | 0.98% | 8 |
| 7 | Morozova | 3,715 | 1:266 | 1.55% | 14 |
| 8 | Smirnova | 3,341 | 1:295 | 0.78% | 6 |
| 9 | Kuznetsova | 3,128 | 1:315 | 0.69% | 3 |
| 10 | Smirnov | 3,118 | 1:316 | 0.85% | 9 |
| 11 | Volkova | 2,984 | 1:331 | 0.98% | 12 |
| 12 | Kovaleva | 2,966 | 1:333 | 3.83% | 168 |
| 13 | Kozlov | 2,885 | 1:342 | 1.74% | 43 |
| 14 | Petrochenkova | 2,866 | 1:344 | 84.42% | 5,697 |
| 15 | Belikova | 2,760 | 1:358 | 12.23% | 802 |
| 16 | Romanova | 2,725 | 1:362 | 1.23% | 17 |
| 17 | Kotova | 2,641 | 1:374 | 1.86% | 57 |
| 18 | Vasilev | 2,623 | 1:376 | 1.24% | 21 |
| 19 | Trifonenkova | 2,595 | 1:380 | 95.86% | 6,982 |
| 20 | Bodyak | 2,579 | 1:383 | 93.88% | 6,886 |
| 21 | Ladygo | 2,578 | 1:383 | 99.61% | 7,264 |
| 22 | Kovalyova | 2,514 | 1:393 | 4.10% | 222 |
| 23 | Kozlova | 2,497 | 1:395 | 1.44% | 39 |
| 24 | Pavlova | 2,430 | 1:406 | 1.09% | 16 |
| 25 | Vasileva | 2,334 | 1:423 | 1.11% | 22 |
| 26 | Kuznetsov | 2,304 | 1:428 | 0.53% | 4 |
| 27 | Orlova | 2,194 | 1:450 | 1.43% | 51 |
| 28 | Kovalyov | 2,189 | 1:451 | 3.93% | 256 |
| 29 | Mikhaylova | 2,185 | 1:452 | 1.04% | 23 |
| 30 | Stepanova | 2,047 | 1:482 | 1.16% | 37 |
| 31 | Volkov | 2,024 | 1:488 | 0.92% | 18 |
| 32 | Nikitina | 2,001 | 1:493 | 1.16% | 40 |
| 33 | Zaytseva | 1,992 | 1:495 | 1.06% | 29 |
| 34 | Morozov | 1,974 | 1:500 | 1.01% | 26 |
| 35 | Sokolova | 1,962 | 1:503 | 0.85% | 15 |
| 36 | Stepanov | 1,927 | 1:512 | 1.19% | 45 |
| 37 | Mikhaylov | 1,914 | 1:516 | 1.06% | 32 |
| 38 | Orlov | 1,861 | 1:530 | 1.32% | 58 |
| 39 | Frolova | 1,837 | 1:537 | 1.19% | 50 |
| 40 | Zaytsev | 1,790 | 1:551 | 1.23% | 55 |
| 41 | Andreeva | 1,770 | 1:558 | 0.82% | 20 |
| 42 | Egorova | 1,753 | 1:563 | 1.02% | 41 |
| 43 | Pavlov | 1,743 | 1:566 | 0.92% | 28 |
| 44 | Yakovleva | 1,737 | 1:568 | 1.11% | 47 |
| 45 | Romanov | 1,722 | 1:573 | 0.96% | 34 |
| 46 | Kuzmina | 1,679 | 1:588 | 1.25% | 65 |
| 47 | Kovalev | 1,659 | 1:595 | 2.96% | 251 |
| 48 | Kotov | 1,585 | 1:623 | 1.57% | 99 |
| 49 | Nikolaeva | 1,571 | 1:628 | 0.88% | 33 |
| 50 | Nikolaev | 1,556 | 1:634 | 0.95% | 44 |
| 51 | Alekseev | 1,511 | 1:653 | 1.26% | 73 |
| 52 | Nikitin | 1,489 | 1:663 | 1.02% | 54 |
| 53 | Andreev | 1,467 | 1:673 | 0.92% | 46 |
| 54 | Egorov | 1,441 | 1:685 | 0.85% | 42 |
| 54 | Matveeva | 1,441 | 1:685 | 1.25% | 79 |
| 56 | Polyakova | 1,400 | 1:705 | 1.26% | 82 |
| 57 | Mironova | 1,352 | 1:730 | 0.98% | 62 |
| 58 | Kuzmin | 1,348 | 1:732 | 1.05% | 66 |
| 59 | Timofeev | 1,344 | 1:734 | 1.63% | 146 |
| 60 | Bogdanova | 1,343 | 1:735 | 1.37% | 105 |
| 61 | Zakharova | 1,340 | 1:736 | 0.75% | 35 |
| 62 | Titova | 1,329 | 1:743 | 1.51% | 129 |
| 63 | Sergeeva | 1,317 | 1:749 | 0.70% | 27 |
| 64 | Shevchenko | 1,313 | 1:752 | 0.60% | 19 |
| 65 | Sokolov | 1,299 | 1:760 | 0.70% | 30 |
| 66 | Borisova | 1,296 | 1:761 | 0.94% | 61 |
| 67 | Frolov | 1,274 | 1:775 | 0.94% | 64 |
| 68 | Polyakov | 1,241 | 1:795 | 1.43% | 134 |
| 69 | Fedorova | 1,210 | 1:816 | 1.08% | 81 |
| 70 | Makarova | 1,202 | 1:821 | 0.59% | 25 |
| 71 | Alekseeva | 1,200 | 1:822 | 0.87% | 63 |
| 72 | Yakovlev | 1,186 | 1:832 | 0.92% | 67 |
| 73 | Ilina | 1,182 | 1:835 | 1.12% | 88 |
| 74 | Kovalenko | 1,179 | 1:837 | 0.76% | 49 |
| 75 | Belova | 1,160 | 1:851 | 0.84% | 59 |
| 76 | Borisov | 1,152 | 1:857 | 0.97% | 75 |
| 76 | Martynova | 1,152 | 1:857 | 1.80% | 205 |
| 78 | Timofeeva | 1,151 | 1:857 | 1.17% | 103 |
| 79 | Zakharov | 1,138 | 1:867 | 0.73% | 48 |
| 80 | Dmitrieva | 1,131 | 1:873 | 0.95% | 74 |
| 81 | Grigoreva | 1,117 | 1:883 | 1.18% | 111 |
| 82 | Vasilyeva | 1,107 | 1:891 | 1.19% | 115 |
| 83 | Titov | 1,100 | 1:897 | 1.32% | 143 |
| 84 | Semenova | 1,092 | 1:904 | 0.94% | 76 |
| 85 | Fyodorov | 1,084 | 1:910 | 1.23% | 128 |
| 86 | Sergeev | 1,068 | 1:924 | 0.71% | 52 |
| 87 | Popova | 1,064 | 1:927 | 0.29% | 11 |
| 88 | Danilova | 1,053 | 1:937 | 1.03% | 98 |
| 89 | Semyonova | 1,052 | 1:938 | 1.20% | 131 |
| 90 | Zhukov | 1,042 | 1:947 | 1.09% | 109 |
| 91 | Korneeva | 1,033 | 1:955 | 3.35% | 545 |
| 92 | Makarov | 1,017 | 1:970 | 0.57% | 36 |
| 93 | Antonova | 1,012 | 1:975 | 0.82% | 70 |
| 94 | Savchenkov | 998 | 1:989 | 27.11% | 5,300 |
| 95 | Matveev | 993 | 1:994 | 1.00% | 100 |
| 96 | Isaeva | 979 | 1:1,008 | 1.14% | 136 |
| 97 | Kazakov | 976 | 1:1,011 | 1.31% | 177 |
| 98 | Osipova | 968 | 1:1,019 | 1.03% | 114 |
| 99 | Lebedev | 960 | 1:1,028 | 0.78% | 72 |
| 99 | Lyubimova | 960 | 1:1,028 | 2.20% | 356 |
| 101 | Koroleva | 945 | 1:1,044 | 1.29% | 181 |
| 102 | Korolyova | 944 | 1:1,045 | 1.78% | 270 |
| 103 | Grigorev | 935 | 1:1,055 | 1.00% | 116 |
| 104 | Fomina | 932 | 1:1,059 | 1.09% | 137 |
| 105 | Semenov | 931 | 1:1,060 | 0.96% | 106 |
| 106 | Tarasova | 927 | 1:1,065 | 0.79% | 77 |
| 107 | Lebedeva | 924 | 1:1,068 | 0.53% | 38 |
| 108 | Ermakova | 921 | 1:1,071 | 1.20% | 170 |
| 109 | Solntse | 916 | 1:1,077 | 9.68% | 2,134 |
| 110 | Popov | 914 | 1:1,080 | 0.25% | 10 |
| 111 | Osipov | 912 | 1:1,082 | 1.15% | 156 |
| 111 | Tarasov | 912 | 1:1,082 | 0.84% | 86 |
| 113 | Belov | 888 | 1:1,111 | 0.72% | 71 |
| 114 | Dmitriev | 882 | 1:1,119 | 0.85% | 93 |
| 115 | Efimova | 871 | 1:1,133 | 1.07% | 149 |
| 116 | Zhukova | 862 | 1:1,145 | 0.79% | 84 |
| 117 | Prudnikova | 860 | 1:1,147 | 7.46% | 1,736 |
| 118 | Ermakov | 858 | 1:1,150 | 1.41% | 225 |
| 118 | Tikhonov | 858 | 1:1,150 | 1.23% | 187 |
| 120 | Leonova | 845 | 1:1,168 | 1.59% | 273 |
| 121 | Kharitonova | 838 | 1:1,178 | 1.86% | 341 |
| 122 | Kazakova | 834 | 1:1,183 | 0.86% | 107 |
| 123 | Sergeevna | 830 | 1:1,189 | 1.08% | 169 |
| 124 | Danilov | 828 | 1:1,192 | 0.93% | 126 |
| 125 | Nikiforova | 823 | 1:1,199 | 1.31% | 214 |
| 125 | Volk | 823 | 1:1,199 | 2.72% | 556 |
| 127 | Starovoytov | 822 | 1:1,201 | 14.69% | 3,622 |
| 128 | Efimov | 820 | 1:1,203 | 1.17% | 186 |
| 129 | Fyodorova | 817 | 1:1,208 | 0.96% | 140 |
| 130 | Antonenkova | 811 | 1:1,217 | 52.63% | 11,607 |
| 130 | Bykov | 811 | 1:1,217 | 1.33% | 224 |
| 130 | Sidorova | 811 | 1:1,217 | 0.82% | 102 |
| 133 | Melnikova | 807 | 1:1,223 | 0.70% | 78 |
| 133 | Sidorenkov | 807 | 1:1,223 | 26.95% | 6,369 |
| 135 | Maksimova | 801 | 1:1,232 | 0.82% | 104 |
| 136 | Antonov | 800 | 1:1,234 | 0.73% | 83 |
| 137 | Goncharova | 799 | 1:1,235 | 0.88% | 122 |
| 138 | Bogdanov | 792 | 1:1,246 | 0.94% | 141 |
| 139 | Efremov | 791 | 1:1,248 | 1.23% | 202 |
| 140 | Sorokin | 785 | 1:1,257 | 0.79% | 101 |
| 141 | Filippova | 784 | 1:1,259 | 0.75% | 89 |
| 142 | Baranov | 783 | 1:1,260 | 0.94% | 144 |
| 143 | Goncharov | 779 | 1:1,267 | 1.02% | 172 |
| 143 | Kiselyova | 779 | 1:1,267 | 1.55% | 297 |
| 145 | Semyonov | 778 | 1:1,268 | 0.87% | 124 |
| 145 | Tsoy | 778 | 1:1,268 | 3.33% | 773 |
| 147 | Abramov | 777 | 1:1,270 | 0.95% | 148 |
| 148 | Davydova | 771 | 1:1,280 | 0.89% | 135 |
| 149 | Romanenkova | 766 | 1:1,288 | 26.62% | 6,597 |
| 150 | Prudnikov | 763 | 1:1,293 | 8.06% | 2,129 |
| 150 | Sidorov | 763 | 1:1,293 | 0.72% | 87 |
| 152 | Solovyova | 762 | 1:1,295 | 1.26% | 229 |
| 153 | Denisova | 761 | 1:1,297 | 0.87% | 133 |
| 154 | Zakharenkova | 757 | 1:1,304 | 30.84% | 7,641 |
| 155 | Zueva | 751 | 1:1,314 | 1.73% | 360 |
| 156 | Kalinina | 747 | 1:1,321 | 0.79% | 113 |
| 157 | Avdeev | 746 | 1:1,323 | 1.85% | 398 |
| 157 | Vinogradov | 746 | 1:1,323 | 1.23% | 226 |
| 159 | Aleksandrova | 744 | 1:1,326 | 0.72% | 92 |
| 160 | Lis | 739 | 1:1,335 | 2.07% | 462 |
| 161 | Vinogradova | 736 | 1:1,341 | 0.97% | 173 |
| 162 | Moiseenkova | 734 | 1:1,344 | 31.06% | 7,934 |
| 163 | Korneev | 733 | 1:1,346 | 2.58% | 622 |
| 164 | Mironov | 731 | 1:1,350 | 0.71% | 91 |
| 165 | Mikheenkova | 726 | 1:1,359 | 70.08% | 16,226 |
| 166 | Medvedev | 723 | 1:1,365 | 0.50% | 56 |
| 167 | Marchenkova | 717 | 1:1,376 | 16.90% | 4,620 |
| 168 | Zuev | 706 | 1:1,398 | 1.94% | 452 |
| 169 | Fedorov | 693 | 1:1,424 | 0.72% | 108 |
| 170 | Sergeenkov | 688 | 1:1,434 | 54.47% | 13,774 |
| 171 | Kholod | 687 | 1:1,436 | 1.60% | 365 |
| 172 | Sidorenkova | 683 | 1:1,445 | 23.98% | 6,665 |
| 173 | Drozdov | 681 | 1:1,449 | 2.47% | 651 |
| 174 | Marchenkov | 680 | 1:1,451 | 20.12% | 5,725 |
| 175 | Petukhova | 678 | 1:1,456 | 1.77% | 428 |
| 176 | Akimov | 676 | 1:1,460 | 1.83% | 442 |
| 176 | Savchenkova | 676 | 1:1,460 | 23.13% | 6,500 |
| 178 | Semchenkova | 675 | 1:1,462 | 48.49% | 12,691 |
| 178 | Sorokina | 675 | 1:1,462 | 0.65% | 94 |
| 180 | Gerasimova | 672 | 1:1,469 | 0.88% | 171 |
| 181 | Kiseleva | 669 | 1:1,475 | 0.91% | 180 |
| 182 | Makarenko | 665 | 1:1,484 | 1.48% | 343 |
| 183 | Medvedeva | 663 | 1:1,488 | 0.53% | 69 |
| 184 | Belyaeva | 658 | 1:1,500 | 0.78% | 142 |
| 184 | Vasilkova | 658 | 1:1,500 | 7.62% | 2,342 |
| 186 | Alexeev | 657 | 1:1,502 | 1.96% | 496 |
| 187 | Baranova | 652 | 1:1,514 | 0.75% | 132 |
| 188 | Filippov | 650 | 1:1,518 | 0.74% | 130 |
| 189 | Krylova | 644 | 1:1,532 | 1.05% | 221 |
| 190 | Bondarenko | 642 | 1:1,537 | 0.43% | 53 |
| 191 | Azarenkova | 641 | 1:1,540 | 42.20% | 11,761 |
| 192 | Drozdova | 636 | 1:1,552 | 2.10% | 553 |
| 193 | Kudryavtseva | 627 | 1:1,574 | 1.04% | 230 |
| 193 | Leonov | 627 | 1:1,574 | 1.39% | 340 |
| 195 | Gusev | 624 | 1:1,581 | 0.70% | 125 |
| 196 | Solovyov | 623 | 1:1,584 | 1.07% | 238 |
| 197 | Belyaev | 622 | 1:1,587 | 0.80% | 166 |
| 198 | Eliseev | 621 | 1:1,589 | 1.46% | 368 |
| 199 | Maximova | 618 | 1:1,597 | 1.63% | 431 |
| 200 | Kulikov | 614 | 1:1,607 | 0.75% | 150 |