RUSSIA
General links for Russian genealogical and family history research (Now Russian Federation)
See also Europe and Eastern Europe sections
How to Research Genealogy in Russia by Lisa A. Alzo, December 18, 2013, Family Tree Magazine: https://www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/research-genealogy-in-russia
Russian records & research aids, FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927021?region=Russia
Russia, research lessons, including an introduction and lessons on reading Russian documents: https://www.familysearch.org/ask/landing?show=lessons&search=Russia
Russia, FamilySearch wiki: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Russia_Genealogy
Finding Lost Russian and Ukrainian Family, Vera Miller: https://lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/important-links-for-finding-family/
A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (and some of their Slavic roots) Being a compilation of over 25,000 Russian names Taken from period sources by Paul Wickenden of Thanet, Society for Creative Anachronism Inc.: http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/
Names Among the Doukhobors, Russia-Canada. Also Russian terms, etc.: http://www.doukhobor.org/names.html
All Russia Family Tree: http://www.vgd.ru/
The Archives of Russia: http://www.rusarchives.ru
State Archives of the Russian Federation: http://statearchive.ru
Links re Russian language, archives, history. School of Russian and Asian Studies, California: http://www.sras.org/library
Russian heroes of the First World War, searchable: http://gwar.mil.ru/
Maps of Russia, Retromap: http://www.retromap.ru/index.html?lang=en
Historical Maps of Russia, Edumaps: https://www.edmaps.com/html/russia.html
Russian Genealogy & Family History, incl. Russian Consular Records 1898-1922 / Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers (LI-RA-MA) Collection, links, etc. Library and Archives Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/history-ethnic-cultural/Pages/russian.aspx
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, ancestral surname charts available: http://www.ahsgr.org/?page=SurnameCharts
German-Russians on the Canadian Prairie, Germans from Russia Heritage Collection: https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/history_culture/history/peters.html
Russian Mennonite Emigration to Canada, Mennonite Archival Image Database: https://archives.mhsc.ca/immigration-1923-russia-to-canada
Jewish genealogy, Eastern Europe, JewishGen: https://www.jewishgen.org/
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