Metric books have been transferred to the Presidential Library for digitalization, thanks to which residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region can now restore their family trees. The oldest book in the collection is 170 years old.
These documents were saved thanks to Maria Ratnikova, an honorary citizen of Vsevolozhsk. She received the books in the early 1980s, and then transferred them to the Museum of Local History at the Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Petrov Toksovo Secondary School. From there, the materials were transferred to the Presidential Library, where they were digitized.
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