Village

Žvikava

Smaĺjanski sieĺsaviet, Orsha District, Vitebsk Region

1 file in the archives name Žvikava. Among them: estate inventories — 1.

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Names

Belarusian: Жвікава
Belarusian (Taraškievica): Жвікава
Russian: Жвиково
Polish: Żwikawa
English: Žvikava
German: Žvikava

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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: Smaĺjanski sieĺsaviet, Orsha District, Vitebsk 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
1847			Лямницы	from the titles of the estate's files (years of the files)

Village council and its fond

Village council fonds usually hold the 20th-century household books — lists of households and their members by year. The fond is found by the council's name and district in the titles of archival fonds.

Smaĺjanski sieĺsaviet · today
- ZGA Orsha, fond 94 — Смольянский сельский Совет депутатов и исполнительный комитет, д. Смольяны (с 13.05.2009 - аг. Смольяны) Оршанского района Витебской области (1944–2019)

Estates

Estates whose files name this place:

Лямницы (Сенненский уезд) · in files: 1 · named as the estate's village

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.

Сенненский район (1944)

Документы по установлению и расследованию злодеяний, совершенных немецко-фашистскими захватчиками и их сообщниками на территории Сенненского района (сводные сведения, акты, протоколы опросов свидетелей, письма, поименные списки, заявления, фотографии) (15.09.1944 - 27.03.1945)

Files on the whole region — Витебская область (1)

Сводные сведения Витебской областной комиссии содействия в работе ЧГК СССР от 06.04.1945 об установлении и расследовании злодеяний, совершенных немецко-фашистскими захватчиками на территории Витебской области и список немецко-фашистских преступников и их сообщников

Other places — Smaĺjanski sieĺsaviet

Places nearby

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego

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

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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: 1in the search, with filters by archive, kind of document and years

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Links

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