The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) (russian: Государственный архив Российской Федерации (ГАРФ)) is a large
Russian state
archive managed by
Rosarkhiv
The Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation (russian: Федеральное архивное агентство Российской Федерации (Росархив), Federal'noye Arkhivnoye agentstvo Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Rosar ...
(the
Federal Archival Agency of Russia). It houses documents from the highest bodies of Russian authority, including:
* some official documents relating to the history of the
Russian Empire (mostly concerning the activity of police)
* personal records (including archives of some members of the imperial
Romanov from the early 19th century to 1918)
* official documents of the supreme national legislative and executive institutions of the
Russian Provisional Government (1917)
* records of
Soviet Russia as an independent state (1917-1922) and as a territorial entity of the
USSR (1923-1991)
* archives of the
Soviet Union (1922-1991)
* records of the
Russian Federation (since 1992)
* documents from many other sources
The State Archive, established in
Moscow in 1992, acquired the collections of:
* the Central State Archive of the
October Revolution (russian: Центральный государственный архив Октябрьской революции, высших органов государственной власти и органов государственного управления (ЦГАОР СССР)) (founded in 1920)
* the Central State Archive of the
Russian SFSR (russian: Центральный государственный архив РСФСР (ЦГА РСФСР)) (founded in 1957).
[Иофис Г. Н., Центральный государственный архив РСФСР (1957-1992)//История Государственного архива Российской Федерации (документы, статьи, воспоминания), с. 211. (Iofis G. N., ''The Central state archive of ]RSFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
(1957-1992)'', in ''History of the State archive of the Russian Federation (documents, articles, reminiscences)''. Page 211.
Notes
References
* Мироненко С. В. (отв. ред.), ''История Государственного архива Российской Федерации (документы, статьи, воспоминания), М.: РОССПЭН, 2010. (Mironenko S. V. (ed.), ''History of the State archive of Russian Federarion (documents, articles, reminiscences)'', Moscow, ROSSPEN. 2010. )
External links
Official websitePage about GARFat the Dutch
International Institute of Social History
Archives in Russia
Russia
State archives
Soviet archives
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow
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