On the Sovnarkom issued the decree[REF] which laid the legal and institutional framework for the organization of registration and statistics of the three major type of life events: birth, marriage/divorce, and death.
As it was before the revolution, the "metriks" records (both in the books and in the excerpts given to the parents) contained such critical identification parameters as: date and place of birth, name and sex of a child, full names of his parents (if known).