It is advisable to start the search for a real place of birth of a person not with a request to the archives, but with a conversation with relatives, since the information contained in official documents cannot always correspond to reality. Especially if this person was born in a difficult time for the country and his father and mother were unable to take care in time to register the child.
Instruction manual
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Contact the relatives of this person if you know them or you know where they live, and ask them where he was born. When addressing such a question to strangers, be sure to introduce yourself and tell me why you needed such data. If you are a representative of a government agency, then you will most likely be given the answer to this question. If you are a private person, then the reason must be significant enough to give you an exhaustive answer.
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Continue your research by contacting the registry office, where, according to your assumptions, information about the place of birth of this person can be stored. Please note: any information related to birth, marriage / divorce and death is entered in the books of this institution, but it may not be on the certificates. So if you sent a request to the registry office, and you were told that they did not have such information, ask for an official written refusal, which you can apply to the court. It is likely that the employees of this institution in this case will meet you.
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Make inquiries to the district, regional and national archives, depending on what information you have about this person. So, if you know that he was called up for military service, make a request to the military registration and enlistment office or the archives of the Ministry of Defense, and if he was imprisoned, to the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, GUIN, FSB (provided that the funds where this information can be stored are open)
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Refer to the website http://www.vgd.ru, which has a constantly updated database of Russian residents. Choose the last name of the wanted person in alphabetical order and read information about his likely compatriots. You will also be able to ask the specialists working with this resource, a question of interest to you on the forum.
