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Summer vacations

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On July 25, 2018
Many archives in Eastern Europe are closing for a few weeks in summer. Why? They don’t have enough staff to keep doors open when they have to give the obligatorily vacations to archivists… How we can help in this situation? Our small team is still around, answering your questions and providing information, day and night. […]
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Small successes

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On June 25, 2018
Client sent us the photo of the gravestone, taken in 1950s in a small Ukrainian village. We found it 60+ years later. Visited the place, spoken to local residents. Do you have similarly challenging tasks? Send them to us, we should be able to help you.
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Harbin Starts Football Season 1935

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On June 11, 2018
  • 1935, championship, China, FIFA, Football, harbin, history, Russia, Russian, socker
Today is the opening of football season – in Harbin, and in 1935. Today, the solemn opening of the football season will take place on the field of the hostel of the Manchurian Polytechnic. The celebration will be opened by the general parade of all teams, after which the greetings will be held, and then […]
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Shanghai Football club “Sokol” 1933

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On June 9, 2018
  • 1933, 1936, China, FIFA, Football, Genealogy, Russian, shanghai, Soccer
Russian Football team “Sokol 1” in 1933 after winning the 2nd league Junior cup of the Shanghai Football Association.  You can search the “Russians in China” genealogical index for details on those and other emigrees, both related and not related to football. Need to find who of your relatives played along? Let us know! We can find your […]
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Football in Shanghai in 1930s – post 1

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On June 1, 2018
  • 1930s, 1936, FIFA, Football, Historical, shanghai, Soccer
We will publish small excerpts from the 1930s historical Shanghai book about the football.  The most interesting sport in Shanghai, which always attracts hundreds and thousands of spectators, is certainly football, to which addicted are representatives of all nationalities living in Shanghai. Currently in Shanghai, in the Football League alone, there are over 50 teams […]
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World is getting crazy about football!

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On May 29, 2018
When you see genealogy sites advertise services related to FIFA World Soccer Cup, we think we should not miss this opportunity to say that many years ago your ancestors probably played football/soccer too. Those picture from the 1930s Shanghai. Russian team “Sokol 1” plays on the Race Course. You can search the “Russians in China” […]
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Moscow – Where to find Draft Documents

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On April 16, 2018
  • archives, Army, Moscow, Russia, Военкомат, Москва, РВК
Moscow is a difficult city to search — many administrative changes means you never know where the documents are. We have today found the table describing where the records of военкоматы are located and are re-posting it for the convenience of other researchers. Таблица о том, в каком военкомате Москвы находятся на хранении старые документы […]
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Secret Archive

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On April 13, 2018
  • archives, FSB, global, Gulag, Omsk, Poland, Russia, Stalin, travel, USSR
Two buildings at the background on this photo show you one of the most secretive archives in Russia — Omsk archive of Federal Security Service. We spent two weeks working here, analyzing and annotating materials they have of 1937-1938 Stalin Purges. Was you ancestors “repressed” or “illegally killed”or  “sent to 10 years camps” in 1930s […]
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Unusual WW2 monument

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On April 7, 2018
While travelling around the old trading town of Kainsk, established 1722, we found the unusual monument. It is located near the “Old” local cemetery on the outskirts of the town. This is the monument to Kainsk residents who died in WW2. What is unusual is that it was built by the local resident, private person, not […]
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Siberian Prisonners of 1800s

  • Posted by rusgen
  • On March 24, 2018
  • 1854, archives, Criminals, GARF, RSL, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Genealogist, Russian Genealogy, Siberia, Ukraine
Nerchinsk Mining District (Нерченский Горный Округ) was from the 1747 the private property of Russian Royal family, located in Eastern Siberia, current part of Chita region It was the silver and gold mines for the Royal family.  92000 square miles of harsh Siberian taiga. Why we are interested in this place? Because it was where […]
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