State Archive of the Russian Federation

State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)
Agency overview
Formed	1992
Preceding agency	Central State Archive of the October Revolution; Central State Archive of RSFSR;
Jurisdiction	Government of Russia
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Agency executives	Larisa Aleksandrovna Rogovaya, Director; Sergei Vladimirovich Mironenko, Scientific supervisor;
Parent agency	Presidential Administration of Russia (Federal Archival Agency)
Website	www.statearchive.ru

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]

Notes

^ 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.

References

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)

External links

Official website (in Russian)
Page about GARF at the Dutch International Institute of Social History (in English)

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[1] 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).

[2] 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.

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