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State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1992 |
| Preceding agency | Central State Archive of the October RevolutionCentral State Archive of RSFSR |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Russia |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Agency executives | Larisa Aleksandrovna Rogovaya, DirectorSergei Vladimirovich Mironenko, Scientific supervisor |
| Parent agency | Presidential Administration of Russia (Federal Archival Agency) |
| Website | www.statearchive.ru |
Main building of the GARF (Bol'shaya Pirogovskaya ul., 17)
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 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)[1]
- the Central State Archive of the Russian SFSR (Russian: Центральный государственный архив РСФСР (ЦГА РСФСР)) (founded in 1957).[2]
- ^ Наумов В. П., Центральный государственный архив Октябрьской революции (1920-1992)//История Государственного архива Российской Федерации (документы, статьи, воспоминания), с. 158. (Naumov V. P., The Central state archive of the October Revolution (1920-1992), in History of the State archive of the Russian Federation (documents, articles, reminiscences). Page 158).
- ^ 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 (1957-1992), in History of the State archive of the Russian Federation (documents, articles, reminiscences). Page 211.
Мироненко С. В. (отв. ред.), История Государственного архива Российской Федерации (документы, статьи, воспоминания), М.: РОССПЭН, 2010. ISBN 978-5-8243-1473-1 (Mironenko S. V. (ed.), History of the State archive of Russian Federarion (documents, articles, reminiscences), Moscow, ROSSPEN. 2010. ISBN 978-5-8243-1473-1)
Official website (in Russian)
Page about GARF at the Dutch International Institute of Social History (in English)
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