Town

Yelsk

Jeĺsk District, Gomel Region

206 files in the archives name Yelsk. Among them: land, surveys, redemption — 11, censuses — 5, courts, investigations — 1.

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Names

Belarusian: Ельск; Ельск; Каралін
Belarusian (Taraškievica): Ельск
Russian: Ельск; Каролин; Королин
Polish: Jelsk
Lithuanian: Jelskas
Ukrainian: Єльськ
English: Yelsk; Jeĺsk
German: Jelsk

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Old maps of this place — Russian 3-verst map, WIG 1:100,000 (1924–1939), German maps of 1914–1918 (Mapster)

Now: Jeĺsk District, Gomel Region

Affiliation by years

Parish, volost, district and estate as different sources give them, one source a row. Each source speaks of its own year and they may disagree.

Years	Parish	Volost; district	Estate	Source
…–1924		Каралінская воласць; Mozyrsky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate		Wikidata
1924–1931		Karalinski district		Wikidata

Estates

Каролин (Минский уезд) · files: 1
Каролин (Мозырский уезд) · files: 1

Estates whose files name this place:

Наровля (Речицкий уезд) · in files: 1

Extraordinary State Commission files, 1944–1945

Files of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission on the occupiers' crimes: witness interviews, lists of the killed and of those deported to Germany (NARB fond 1569, digital copies from GARF, scans online). The 1944 district is the one with the nearest district seat, so near a district border look at the neighbouring one too.

Ельский район (1944)

Документы по установлению и расследованию злодеяний, совершенных немецко-фашистскими захватчиками и их сообщниками на территории Ельского района (сводные сведения, акты, протоколы опросов свидетелей, поименные списки) (14.12.1944 - 17.12.1944)

Files on the whole region — Полесская область (1)

Докладная записка Полесской областной комиссии содействия в работе ЧГК СССР от 20.06.1945 об установлении и расследовании злодеяний и учете ущерба, причиненного немецко-фашистскими захватчиками народному хозяйству Полесской области, приложения к ней

Places nearby

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego

Polish geographical dictionary of 1880–1902: gmina, parish, number of households, owners. The link opens the page scan.

Where it is mentioned

Fonds, inventories and files whose titles contain the place name. Several places may share a name — check the uezd and volost.

All records mentioning it: 206in the search, with filters by archive, kind of document and years

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Links

Place data from Wikidata (CC0 licence), where it can also be corrected.