Documentation of the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region A History of the Archives The Communist Party regional archive was established in Grodno in March 1940; in February 1992 it became the Union and Public Organizations Department of the State Archives of the Grodno Region. In June 1992, a branch of the State Archives of the Grodno Region was established in the city of Grodno based on the regional archive department of the Communist Party. In 1996, it became the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region. From July 2012 it underwent further changes, and from the State Archives of Public Unions in the Grodno region, it became a state body known as the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region. In the collection there is documentation of the Communist Party and the Komsomol which were active in the Belostok region. There are reports of general meetings regarding the activities of the Communist Party regional committees in the Volkovysk, Lida and Nowogrodek regions and district Revolutionary Committees, as well as meetings of the district Komsomols, 1938-1941. In the documentation there are also documents from 1939-1941 that reflect the transition of western Belorussia to the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR). Additionally, there are documents from the German occupation period, such as public appeals to the local administrations and lists of partisans.