Author(s): Iryna Marholina (2019) – last update: 2021-01-11 The Государственный фонд кинофильмов Российской Федерации or Госфильмофонд России (ГФФ) / The Russian State Film Foundation or The Gosfil’mofond of Russia (GFF) is the largest film archive in Russia. It specializes in motion pictures, both Russian (including Soviet) and foreign, but its vast collection contains non-fiction films […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Jan Bever (2019) – last update: 2019-03-07 Ukraine’s secret service’s archive is certainly a treasure for those interested in Ukraine’s history during Soviet times and the KGB in general. The further back in Soviet history, the more documents are available. The archive’s first documents date back to the Bolsheviks in 1917/18 in Ukraine (if […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Anton Liavitski (2019) – last update: 2019-02-11 The Нацыянальны архіў Рэспублікі Беларусь (НАРБ) / National Archive of the Republic of Belarus (NARB) is the major archive institution in Belarus. The primary task of the archive is to store documents that have been issued by state organs of Belarus, the Communist Party of Belarus (between […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Daniela Mathuber (2018) – last update: 2018-12-06 The Государственный архив Российской Федерации (ГАРФ) / State Archive of the Russian Federation’s (GARF) basic task is to store documents that have been issued by the highest legislative, executive and judicial organs since about 1800, but it owns documents of other origins as well. Among them are […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Anke Oehler (2018) – last update: 2018-11-28 The электронный архив Прожито/ digital archive “Prozhito” collects and publishes diaries from a wide range of people from the 18th to the 21st century. The diaries are mostly in Russian and Ukrainian. The archive is managed by a group of volunteers who publish diaries from archives, online […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Daniela Mathuber (2018) – last update: 2018-12-06 The Российский государственный архив древних актов (РГАДА) / The Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA) houses the biggest collection of sources prior to 1800 in the Russian Federation. The oldest documents date from the 12th century, the youngest ones from the late 19th. The archive was […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Kathleen Beger (2018) – last update: 2018-08-01 The Российский государственный архив социально-политической истории (РГАСПИ) / Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii / The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow was established in 1999 by merging the former Российский центр хранения и изучения документов новейшей истории (РЦХИДНИ) / Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniya i izucheniya […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Arend, Jan (2018) – last update: 2018-07-05. The Санкт-Петербургский филиал Архива Российской Академии Наук / Sankt-Peterburgskii filial Arkhiva Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk / The Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch, established in 1728, holds documents, photographs, cartographic material and scientific works from various fields in Russian history of science and history […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Ruslan Mitrofanov (2018) – last update: 2018-04-26 The Российский государственный исторический архив (Rossiyskiy Gosudarstvennyy Istoricheskiy Arkhiv) / The Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) is the largest archive in Russia and one of the largest in Europe. It holds more than seven million items documenting particularly the history of the Russian Empire. The RGIA is […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Darina Volf (2018) – last update: 2018-04-19 The Российский государственный архив научно-технической документации – РГАНТД (Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj archiv naučno-techničeskoj dokumentacii – RGANTD) / The Russian State Archive for Scientific-technical Documentation holds materials on the history of science and technology, especially space activities, rockets, defense, scientific-technical complex etc. for the period from the 1930s to the […]
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