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State Archive of the Russian Federation

The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) () 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:

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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. )

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