Metadata: Council of Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of Soviet Lithuania
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian Central State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- O. Milošiaus g. 21, 10102, Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 247 7830
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lcva.html
- Email:
- Lcva@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- f. R-181
- Title:
- Council of Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of Soviet Lithuania
- Title (official language):
- Religijų reikalų taryba prie Lietuvos TSR Ministrų Tarybos
- Creator/accumulator:
- LCVA
- Date(s):
- 1944/1990
- Language:
- Lithuanian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 710 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains documents of the Council of Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of Soviet Lithuania, related to observation as well as influence on various activities of religious institutions and communities in Soviet Lithuania. Jewish related documents include files about the conversion of a synagogue into a cinema (inventory 1, file 30), observation files on Karaite communities in Panevėžys, Vilnius and Trakau (inventory 2, files 103, 104 and 180) and Jewish communities in Kaunas and Vilnius (inventory 2, files 107 and 173).
- Archival history:
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The LCVA was established in 1921, following a statute of the Lithuanian Board of Education. In 1940, when the Soviets occupied Lithuania, the NKVD took over the archive. During the Nazi occupation of 1941-1944, the archive continued its activities and was renamed the Vilnius National Archive. Following the second Soviet occupation of 1944, the NKVD regained control of the archives. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the archive was renamed the Lithuanian Central State Archive.
This fonds was added to in 1990 and 1997.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Council of Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of Soviet Lithuania was a Soviet Lithuanian Ministry that oversaw the activities of religious institutions, places of worship and communities. It operated from the beginning of Soviet rule in 1944 until 1990.
- System of arrangement:
- There are seven inventories.
- Access, restrictions:
- Some documents are restricted.
- Finding aids:
- Brief information on the collection and detailed inventories are available on the website of the Lithuanian Chief Archivist Service.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Julija Levin, 2019
