RESEARCHING RUSSIAN ROOTS

THE GATEWAY TO GENEALOGY IN RUSSIA

Researchers

Updated on July 12, 2006

Litera Ru (performs complex jobs requiring searches in many Russian archives)

Alexander Agamov (Researches mostly Western European nobility)

Dmitry Antonov (Tula, speaks French)

Archives of Russia (Russian Society of Historian-Archivists)

Association of professional genealogists in Moscow

Boris Alexeyev (searches in Cheboksary, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod)

Oleg Babarin (assistance in identification of Russian army officers on portraits dated before 1917)

Dmitry Baglei (searches in Rostov-na-Donu and other Cossack regions)

Dmitry Belanovsky (Moscow-based, English-speaking, specializing in pre-1917 army officers' genealogy; identifies Russian Imperial Army officers and soldiers of WWI by the numbers of their military decorations (St. George's Cross); translates ancient Russian texts.

Timothy F. Boettger (has collected and indexed over 5,000 genealogies of noble families of the Russian Empire, including Finland, Poland, Georgia and the Baltic Provinces)

Andry Bobkov (Crimea-based Russian-speaker) 

Igor Bronnikov (Murmansk Genealogical Society)

Alexei Chekalkin (Izhevsk)

Vladimir Chernyshev (based in Murom but with an experience of research in Moscow and St. Petersburg) 

Vladimir Dmitriyev (Sevastopol, Crimea)

Unofficial Dvinsk Genealogy (A special interest group.)

Green Castle agency (genealogical research in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Latvia)

Ekaterina Dyakonova (research in archives of Perm, Udmurtia, all over the Urals)

Aznaur Dudov (Kislovodsk-based Caucasus Genealogy Society)

Olga Elizaryeva (lives in Perm, researches all over Russia, Ukraine and Belarus)

Estonian Biographical Center

Family Tree Belarus (A genealogical firm headed by Vladimir Bokun)

FEBS Information & Analysis Center (Vladivostok)

Boris Fedorov (researches the Stolypins and Sobolevskys in Smolensk)

Genealogia (Moscow-based)

GENEREZIS (in Russian, a Moscow-based group)

Eugeny Grunin (Syzran-based)

Svetlana Izvekova (Expert on the Doukhobors)

Igor Izvekov (Novgorod Association of Nobility)

Kabardino-Balkar Genealogy Society (In Russian only.)

Search of people in Khabarovsk

Rezo Khutsishvili, Georgia's Archive Department

Daniil Kislov (Researches the Russian community in Ferghana, Uzbekistan)

Yevgeny Kirsanov (Historian of Novocherkassk and other Cossack locations on the Don)

Sergei Knyazev (Riga, Latvia, speaks English)

Oksana Korneva (The Urals and other regions of Russia and Ukraine)

Ivan Kuptsov (Chelyabinsk-based Association of Amateur Genealogists, in Russian.)

Timo Laakso (Searches in Finland and former USSR)

Galina Loginova (Moscow)

Dmitry Lyalin (Moscow, researches titled nobility)

Tatiana Lyutaya (a Ukrainian archivist with 25 years of experience)

Ketevan Mirotadze (research in Georgia Republic)

Alexei Mosin (Ekaterinburg)

Svetlana Mortensen (US-based professional genealogist; research in Russia, Belarus, Poland and Lithuania; Jewish and Russian-German research)

Denis Mukhanov (Russian-speaking)

Alexander Noskov (Researches in Perm, Urals)

Alexander Penkin (Amateur from Yaroslavl)

Marina Plieva (Vladikavkaz-based)

Alexei Poluboyartsev (researcher in Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Lyubov Porosyatkovskaya (Kostroma)

Natalia Pozdniakova (Ekaterinburg-based historian)

Alexander Rashkovsky (Charitable Fund "Vyatka Scientific Archival Commission", research on Vyatka

Adrian Roschupkin (Eastern Ukraine)

RusLand Service (Based in the Netherlands, but offers services of their agents in Russian regions)

The Russian Archive agency (Warning: They refuse to disclose the identities and qualifications of their researchers, and insist on a payment system through something called "Russian Shopping Club". There have been complains from dissatisfied clients as well.)

Russian Ancestors (an agency specializing in genealogy and tending graves throughout the former Soviet Union.)

Sergei Ryabov (Researches the Obolensky family in the Kaluga region.)

Search for lost relatives and ancestors in Ukraine (agencies offering help)

Odessa Nobility Union (Ukraine)

Yuri Sharipov (Russian-speaker based in the Urals)

Eugene Shchukin (immigration from Russia/Ukraine to North America and Europe after civil war and WW2)

Andrei Shumkov (St. Petersburg-based expert on Russian nobility)

Igor Shiroglazov (Based in Nizhny-Tagil; researches in the Middle Urals region)

Anna Sidorovich (St. Petersburg-based historian and archivist)

Victor Sluczewski (Historian teaching English in Bryansk, with an experience of genealogical research.)

Ilya Sosner (specializes in the Princes Lvov family)

Vyacheslav Stavile (Moldova)

Ksenia Stepanova (Chita)

Tomsk Pedigree Society "Herold" (In Russian only. They have collected a good database on Tomsk.)

The Urals Genealogical Society

The Urals Historical-Genealogical Society (In Russian)

Wladzislaw Viarowkin-Sheliuta (Association of the Belarusian Nobility, English-speaker)

Vladimir Volkov (Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and Altai)

Mikhail Yel'kin (Ekaterinburg, The Urals Historical-Genealogical Society.)

The integrity of the researchers listed here and the quality of their work could not be verified by independent experts in most cases. Nevertheless, I am planning to avoid quoting those Russian genealogists who have been known to neglect their duties. Researchers earning high reputations with their clients will merit a special comment.

The list is not long, but I hope it continues growing.

The majority of Russian genealogists speak only Russian unless indicated otherwise.

Please contact me with your opinion on these genealogists' performance.