Ukraine during the USSR. Badge of an employee of the USSR Civil Registry Office.

 Official Big badge of an employee of the civil registration department with gilding from the times of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the original packaging.

Description of the sign - a large pentagon, it has an openwork pattern around the perimeter, in the center - a golden pentagon with an oak-maple broom, sickle and hammer, enamel.

From history - the system of civil registration authorities (Registry Office) developed together with the state and went through difficult periods in its development. There were no special bodies in pre-revolutionary Russia. At that time, a big role in the public life of the state was played by the church, which had its own office work. The Russian Orthodox Church was responsible for registering births, marriages and deaths. The registration of these acts of civil status was carried out within the framework of religious rites. Entries were made in the parish registers. In 1721 By the Decree of Peter I, church institutions were included in the system of state bodies of Russia and the entire Orthodox population of the Russian Empire was assigned to church parishes at the place of residence. Church clerical work was carried out by the spiritual parables of temples, the offices of consistories and spiritual boards. The church reform carried out at that time in the Russian Empire largely contributed to the implementation of laws regulating family law and registration of civil status records, since up to this point, compliance with the rule of law depended on the knowledge and conscientiousness of the clergy. Since 1722, births, marriages and deaths have been registered in the registers of parish priests. The metric book consisted of three parts: birth, marriage and death records.

The legal basis for the creation of registry offices in Soviet Russia were the decrees of the Council of People 's Commissars of the Russian Republic of December 18 , 1917 . "On civil marriage, on children and on the maintenance of books of acts of civil status" and dated December 19, 1917. "On the dissolution of marriage." The actual creation of the Registry Office took place a little later, namely on January 4, 1918, when, in pursuance of the above decrees, the People's Commissar of Justice and the People's Commissariat for Local Self-Government approved the Instruction "On the organization of departments of marriage and birth records". In accordance with this document, under the volost (zemstvo) and city councils, in the cities of Petrograd and Moscow – under the district councils – departments of marriage and birth records begin to operate. The heads of the departments were the chairmen of the respective departments. In addition, the department had a secretary and the necessary number of assistants. However, when registering a marriage, the mandatory presence of the chairman of the board or his deputy was required. Their duties included clarifying the identity of the persons entering into marriage and observing all the conditions established by law. The adoption of these documents radically changed the old order of regulation of marriage and family relations and the church was removed from the registration of acts of civil status. This norm was reflected in the Decree of January 23, 1918 "On the separation of Church from State and school from Church", according to paragraph 8 of which acts of civil status began to be conducted exclusively by the civil authority. In accordance with the Decree of December 18, 1917, only civil marriages began to be recognized on the territory of the Russian Republic. However, in a note to the document it was stated that "church marriage, along with compulsory civil marriage, is a private matter of the couple." The decrees clearly established the conditions and procedure for the registration of birth and death, the conclusion and dissolution of marriage. Despite the fact that after the adoption of the above documents, the church was completely removed from the duties of civil registration, in some regions of the country, due to the lack of carefully developed instructions, the registry offices and parish churches worked in parallel until the early 20s. During this period, there was a lively correspondence between the clergy and the registry offices on the transfer of documents on the registration of acts of civil status and the issuance of repeated documents. And it was only in the late 20s that the archives of the metric books were almost completely transferred to the Registry Office departments for storage. The remaining documents were deposited in the central and local state archives. Regulations on the activities of registry offices in the early 20s. They were adopted by various state bodies: the People's Commissariat of Justice, the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (hereinafter – the NKVD), the People's Commissariat for Local Self-Government, the Glavarchiv. It should be noted that it was from this period that the registration of acts of civil status began to be assigned not only demographic, but also, first of all, political importance. The general management of the Civil Registry offices of the RSFSR was carried out by the Central Registry Office Department under the NKVD of the RSFSR. This body has developed a structure of departmental and territorial subordination and subordination of registry offices. October 22 , 1918 At the meeting of the Central Executive Committee, the first Soviet code was adopted – the "Code of Laws on Acts of Civil Status, Marriage, Family and Guardianship Law". With the adoption of this document, family law was separated into a separate independent branch and the regulation of family relations began to be carried out separately from civil ones. On the contrary, family relations needed to be clearly regulated, in this regard, in the absence of civil legislation, a separate code was adopted. In accordance with the Code of 1918, the registration of acts of civil status was finally transferred to the civil authorities. The registry offices at that time kept: books of birth records, books of death records, books of absentee records, books of marriage records, books of divorce records, books of statements about the origin of conceived children, books of records of persons who changed surnames and nicknames, and the alphabet to them.

Since 1918, the system of consular institutions of the RSFSR began to form, already in 1921 the first document regulating their work was adopted.

In 1918-1919, measures were planned to remove metric books from churches and place them in archives at the registry offices.

In connection with the formation of the USSR in 1923, preparations were launched for the creation of a new family code and on November 19, 1926, the RSFSR Code on Marriage, Family and Guardianship (hereinafter referred to as KoBSO) was adopted. With the introduction of the CoBSO (January 1, 1927), the departments of marriage and birth records are renamed the civil registry offices, which are created in cities and district centers. In the development of the norms of the CoBSO, on March 20, 1933, an Instruction on the procedure for registration of acts of civil status was adopted, which regulated in detail the issues of registration of acts of civil status. Taking into account the political situation prevailing in the country, since the 30s, the registry offices have acquired a certain status.

In July 1934, the Registry Office bodies as the department storing the primary information on the current accounting of the population were included in the structure of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. All employees of the Registry Office departments acquire police ranks, department heads become lieutenants. In accordance with the order of the NKVD of the USSR dated August 27, 1937, the Department of Civil Status Acts of the NKVD of the USSR began to manage the work of the bodies of the USSR Union.

After the Great Patriotic War, it was necessary to radically restructure the work of the registry Office. In 1946, the NKVD was renamed the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On October 25, 1956, the registry offices were removed from the subordination of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and transferred to the jurisdiction of local Councils of People's Deputies.

On June 7, 1957, the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR adopted Resolution No. 524 "On the organization of the Registry Office management". In accordance with this document, the positions of civil Registry office inspectors were approved in the states of the Council of Ministers of Autonomous Republics, regional executive committees, regional executive committees and city executive committees of cities of republican subordination to guide and control the work of civil registry offices. Methodological guidance over the work of the registry Office bodies according to the said resolution was entrusted to the Ministry of Justice of the RSFSR (the Registry Office department was organized as part of the central office of the Ministry of Justice). On the basis of the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of June 07, 1957 No. 524, the Ministry of Justice of the RSFSR on January 20, 1958, in coordination with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR and the Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR, developed and approved an Instruction on the procedure for registration of acts of civil status.

In 1969, the Marriage and Family Code of the RSFSR was adopted, according to which the registration of civil status acts in cities and district centers began to be carried out by the departments (bureaus) of the Registry Office of the executive committees of district, city, Councils of People's Deputies, and in settlements and rural settlements – by the executive committees of village and village Councils of People's Deputies. The Code regulated the issues of acts of civil status until the adoption of Federal Law No. 143-FZ of November 15, 1997 "On Acts of Civil status". Approximately in this form, family legislation and legislation regulating the registration of acts of civil status existed until 1968, when the "Fundamentals of Legislation on Marriage and Family of the USSR and the Union Republics" were developed. This document became the basis for the development of the third Marriage and Family Code, adopted on July 30, 1969.

This document was replaced by the Family Code, adopted by the State Duma on December 8, 1995, and Federal Law No. 143-FZ of November 15, 1997 "On Acts of Civil Status", which currently regulate family relations and issues of registration of acts of civil status.

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