The Central Archives of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (russian: Центральный архив Министерства обороны Российской Федерации (ЦАМО РФ); TsAMO RF) are located in

Podolsk Podolsk ( rus, Подольск, p=pɐˈdolʲsk) is an industrial city, center of Podolsk Urban Okrug, Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Pakhra River (a tributary of the Moskva River). History The first mentions of the village of Podol, w ...

, just south of the city of

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. As a departmental archive of Russia, it stores documents of different staffs and offices, associations and formations, units, institutions and military academies of the Soviet Defence Ministry from 1941 until the end of the 1980s. It comes under the command of the

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. It has data on the history, culture and military education of the

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. Founded in 1936, the archive moved to

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

around 1946. In 1992 a branch of TsAMO was established in

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. Colonel Igor Albertovich Permyakov serves as head of the archivе, in post in 2010 and still .

History

TsAMO was founded on 2 July 1936 as the archives department of the

People's Commissariat of Defense The People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union () was the highest military department of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. History In the 1920–1930s, the highest military authority of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic ...

of the Soviet Union (NKO). In 1941, it was evacuated to the town of Buzuluk in

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. The department was renamed the History and Archives Department of the NKO in 1943, and in 1944 it became the Archives Department of the Administration of the Red Army in the NKO. In 1946, the department was relocated to

, taking over the former site of a military school. On 21 July 1947, the department became the Archive of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. On 25 February 1950, it became the Archive of the Military Ministry of the Soviet Union, and on 15 March 1953 the Archive of the

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. On 15 November 1975, the archive was renamed the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union. It briefly served as the Central Archives of the Unified Armed Forces of the

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from 12 March 1992 before becoming the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on 10 June 1992. In late March 2008

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reported unofficially that during the visit to TsAMO of Defence Minister

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, it was decided to close TsAMO and transfer of territory for building an archive. In case of confirmation of this information, the likelihood that material may go missing or be destroyed during the relocation of the archives, is high enough.

Structure

TsAMO Russia keeps some 90,000 funds, including 18,600,000 units of storage. The organization funds are in general conformity with the principles of the organization of the

Soviet Armed Forces The Soviet Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and as the Red Army (, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1991), and th ...

: independent foundations are documents departments of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Defense, offices of military districts, armies, departments, divisions, units and individual agencies. TsAMO's structure includes more than a dozen departments, including the following departments that store documents on the integration of personnel: * 2nd Department – provides Award Documents (instructions on decorating and decorations sheets) * 5th Department – contains the personal files of officers and generals * 6th Department – contains documents on the political composition of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

, including a card-index file of record losses and * 9th Department – includes a card index of losses of NCOs and other ranks, as well as a card index of those held captive and liberated by Soviet troopsIn 2006–2008, of the material of the 9th Division (reports of casualties, various documents and information about the dead and missing) were digitized and transferred to a database format

OBD Memorial OBD Memorial (russian: Обобщённый банк данных «Мемориал») is a project by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to scan and make available online data on all Soviet personnel who were killed or were missi ...

, available at http://www.obd- memorial.ru. * 11-second section – contains four files: *# a personal account of the officer and the general's convoy *# loss of officers and the general's convoy *# war generals and officers who died in captivity *# awarded orders and medals for all personnel of the Red Army (including privates and sergeants) The main building houses a scientific reference library where one can get acquainted with the literature on the period of the

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, including handbooks on military units and formations.

Notes

External links

General information

ЦАМО РФ на сайте Министерства обороны Российской Федерации

ЦАМО РФ на сайте «Архивы России»

Тема «ЦАМО» на форуме
сайта Всероссийское генеалогическое древо
Лариса Романовская. В списках не значится. Запросы от населения в ЦАМО РФ рассматриваются больше года
// «Культура» № 17 (7476), май 2005 г.

// «Новая газета», 27.06.2005

Guidelines for searching at TsAMO

* ttp://genobooks.narod.ru/Arhiv_MO/arhiv-0.htm Первый раз в ЦАМО. Советы новичку
Поисковые архивные исследовани(методичка)

Тема «Что, где и как ищем в ЦАМО РФ?» на форуме
сайта Всероссийское генеалогическое древо
Тема «Как попасть в ЦАМО» на форуме
сайта Всероссийское генеалогическое древо
Тема «Без вести пропавший и ЦАМО» на форуме
сайта Всероссийское генеалогическое древо
Тема «Помощь в ЦАМО г. Подольск» на форуме
сайта Всероссийское генеалогическое древо
Тема «Могу поискать в ЦАМО» на форуме
сайта Всероссийское генеалогическое древо
Тема «Пофамильный поиск в архиве погибших и пропавших без вести (с ксерокопиями документов)»

Difficulties in accessing documents in TsAMO

Георгий Рамазашвили. Центральный архив Министерства обороны Российской Федерации: проблема доступа к документам
// «Отечественные архивы». 2004. № 2.
Георгий Рамазашвили. Портянка с грифом «секретно»
// «Совершенно секретно». 2004. № 5 (180).

// «Неприкосновенный запас». 2005. № 2–3 (40–41). * ttps://archive.today/20070626032622/http://www.mn.ru/issue/2005-7-23 Георгий Рамазашвили. Раскопать архив Минюстом// «Московские Новости». 2005. № 07.
Георгий Рамазашвили. Секреты-шмекреты и Куликовская битва
// «Новое литературное обозрение». 2005. № 74.

// «Индекс/Досье на цензуру». 2003. № 19.

// «Индекс/Досье на цензуру». 2007. № 26. * [http://www.itogi.ru/Paper2007.nsf/Article/Itogi_2007_07_15_02_44134.html Денис Бабиченко. Тайное общество: Приказ министра обороны о рассекречивании архивов Великой Отечественной войны так и не сделал тайное явным] // «Итоги (журнал), Итоги». 2007. № 29.
Борис Соколов. Предъявите документы!

Тема «Исследования в ЦАМО» на форуме
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