Wikipedia: List of provinces/governorates of the Russian Empire
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Jewish communities in Russian Empire
Listed in alphabetical order by provinces names
A province current country affiliation is shown in parentheses
Listed in alphabetical order by provinces names
A province current country affiliation is shown in parentheses
Pale of Settlement
Bessarabia (Moldova)
Chernigov (Ukraine and Russian Federation)
Ekaterinoslav (Ukraine)
Grodno (Belarus)
Kharkov (Ukraine)
Kherson (Ukraine)
Kiev (Ukraine)
Kovno (Lithuania)
Minsk (Belarus)
Mogilev (Belarus)
Podolia (Ukraine)
Poltava (Ukraine)
Vilna (Lithuania and Belarus)
Vitebsk (Belarus, Latvia, and Russian Federation)
Volhynia (Ukraine)
Bessarabia (Moldova)
Chernigov (Ukraine and Russian Federation)
Ekaterinoslav (Ukraine)
Grodno (Belarus)
Kharkov (Ukraine)
Kherson (Ukraine)
Kiev (Ukraine)
Kovno (Lithuania)
Minsk (Belarus)
Mogilev (Belarus)
Podolia (Ukraine)
Poltava (Ukraine)
Vilna (Lithuania and Belarus)
Vitebsk (Belarus, Latvia, and Russian Federation)
Volhynia (Ukraine)
The history of more than hundred Jewish communities in Ukraine:
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Selected list of shtetls of Ukraine (web site "myShtetl")
Additional sources:
Links
BELARUS
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Jewish Heritage Research Group
Jewish Belarus
My Shtetls
Brest
Dokshitsy
Lenin
Mir
Pruzhany
Rubezhevichi Museum
Shchedrin
Stolbtsy
Vysokoye
ESTONIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
LATVIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Rezekne
Vishki
LITHUANIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Vilnus (Museum of Family History)
LitvakSIG
MOLDOVA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Beltsy (ru)
Tiraspol
Soroki
RUSSIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
UKRAINE
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Galicia towns
Shtetls of Ukraine
Berdichev
Czernowitz (Museum of Family History)
Czernowitz blog of Edgar Hauster
Dubno and around
Kornitsa and Sudilkov (the Grossman Project)
Krasilov (Russian)
Kupel
Lechjwitz
Odesa
Rohatyn
Romanovka
Vladimirets
Zatishye
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Community tree
Find town
List of renamed cities in Ukraine
Jewish burial records in Argentina
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Jewish Heritage Research Group
Jewish Belarus
My Shtetls
Brest
Dokshitsy
Lenin
Mir
Pruzhany
Rubezhevichi Museum
Shchedrin
Stolbtsy
Vysokoye
ESTONIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
LATVIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Rezekne
Vishki
LITHUANIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Vilnus (Museum of Family History)
LitvakSIG
MOLDOVA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Beltsy (ru)
Tiraspol
Soroki
RUSSIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
UKRAINE
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Galicia towns
Shtetls of Ukraine
Berdichev
Czernowitz (Museum of Family History)
Czernowitz blog of Edgar Hauster
Dubno and around
Kornitsa and Sudilkov (the Grossman Project)
Krasilov (Russian)
Kupel
Lechjwitz
Odesa
Rohatyn
Romanovka
Vladimirets
Zatishye
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Community tree
Find town
List of renamed cities in Ukraine
Jewish burial records in Argentina
Books
Faleshty, Moldova: Yuri Karlikovsky "Small rock on tombstone" "M+" Tel-Aviv 1999 ISBN 965-7093-11-2
Krasnostav, Ukraine: Peter Segal "You shall not make idols" Tel-Aviv 1995
Krasnostav, Ukraine: Peter Segal "You shall not make idols" Tel-Aviv 1995
Archives
Routes to Roots Foundation
JDC archive
Russian Empire Genealogy Resources
Kamenets Podololsky
Mogilev birth record (1879-80)
Historical Jewish Press
The Riga Rabbinate vital records
19th Century Russian Immigrants to USA
Jewish Memorial (in Russian)
Documents Indexer
Simferopol archive
Jewish surnames index from Russian archives
JDC archive
Russian Empire Genealogy Resources
Kamenets Podololsky
Mogilev birth record (1879-80)
Historical Jewish Press
The Riga Rabbinate vital records
19th Century Russian Immigrants to USA
Jewish Memorial (in Russian)
Documents Indexer
Simferopol archive
Jewish surnames index from Russian archives
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