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Address: 107005, Moscow, ul. 2-ia Baumanskaia, 3
Telephone: (495) 261-20-70; Fax: (495) 267-18-66; RdngRm: 267-44-62
E-mail: rgviarchives@mtu-net.ru
Website: http://www.rusarchives.ru/federal/rgvia/
Hours: M-Th 10:00-17:00; F 10:00-16:00 ([2006]: August closed, possibly from mid-July)
Director: Irina Olegovna Garkusha (tel. 261-86-96, 261-20-70)
Deputy Director: Tamara Nikolaevna Shubina (tel. 267-18-66)
Head of the Reading Room: Tat'iana Iur'evna Burmistrova (tel. 267-44-62)
Previous Names
- 1941-VI.1992 - Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii
arkhiv SSSR (TsGVIA SSSR)
[Central State Military History Archive of the USSR]
- 1934-1941 - Leningradskii voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv (LVIA)
[Leningrad Military History Archive]
- 1933-1941 - Tsentral'nyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv (TsVIA)
[Central Military History Archive]
- 1925-1933 - Voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv (VIA)
[Military History Archive]
- 1906-1925 - Moskovskoe otdelenie Obshchego arkhiva Glavnogo
upravleniia General'nogo shtaba
[Moscow Division of the General Archive of the Main Administration of the General Staff]
About RGVIA
RGVIA, as most recently renamed in 1992 (earlier TsGVIA), serves
as the centralized archive for military records of the Russian Empire, consolidating the
holdings from various prerevolutionary Russian military archives and other repositories
throughout the former Soviet Union. RGVIA retains documentation produced from the
activities of highest, central, and local military administration and military agencies of
the Russian Empire from the end of the seventeenth century until March of 1918.
Access
All of the fonds in the archive are now open to researchers.
Working Conditions
Researchers have the right to order 5 original files and 10
copies per day. Orders are delivered in three days (within 36 hours) for Moscovites and
two days (within 24 hours) for those from out of town; opisi are delivered the next day.
Recent General Guides
- Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi
voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv SSSR: Putevoditel'. Compiled by N. G. Snezhko,
E. N. Dmitrochenkova, A. L. Kornilaeva, N. Iu. Muraveinikova, L. Ia. Saet. Edited by I. O Garkusha,
N. I. Gordeeva, O. Iu. Nezhdanova, M. R. Ryzhenkov, A. D. Stepanskii. 4 vols. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2006–.
[Rosarkhiv; RGVIA]
- Fondy Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo
voenno-istoricheskogo arkhiva: Kratkii spravochnik. Compiled by N. G. Snezhko, E. N.
Dmitrochenkova, L. Ia. Saet. Edited by M. R. Ryzhenkov. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2001. 640 p.
[Rosarkhiv; RGVIA] (Lib: DLC; MH)
ELECTRONIC VERSION: http://www.rusarchives.ru/guide/rgvia/index.shtml;
http://guides.rusarchives.ru/browse/GuidebookCard.html?id=140.
Provides an unannotated list
of fonds and survey of the reference facilities, and hence does not replace the earlier
guides (listed below) that do provide annotations for many of the fonds covered.
- Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi
voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv SSSR: Putevoditel'. Compiled by A. P. Gudzinskaia, E. A.
Elpat'evskaia, K. M. Nikolashina, E. P. Voronin, et al. Edited by I. I. Stroumov, V. N.
Avtokratov, et al. 3 vols. Moscow: GAU, 1979. (Lib: DLC)
Initially restricted
"for service use only" (DSP).
- Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi
voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv: Putevoditel'. Compiled by A. E. Al'tshuller, G. V.
Bogdanov, N. V. Brzhostovskaia, et al. Edited by N. P. Shliapnikov and G. I. Volchenkov.
Moscow: GAU, 1949. 455 p. (Lib: RGGU)
Provides much more thorough
description of holdings than the earlier 1941 guide or the new 2001 one. Long classified
"secret," few copies were distributed to libraries outside the archive.
- Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv SSSR:
Novye postupleniia. Vol. 1: 1986-1988 gg. Compiled by E. N. Dmitrochenkova and T. B.
Konik. Moscow, 1990. 21 p. [TsGVIA SSSR; Glavarkhiv]
Recent Specialized Finding Aids
Microfilm Collections of Documents
- Obzor dokumental'nykh istochnikov po istorii evreev v fondakh RGVIA.
Compiled by A. Vasil'ev. Edited by L. I. Veksel'man and A. Mal'chikova. Moscow: "Evreiskoe nasledie,"
1994. "Evreiskii arkhiv," vol. 2. (Lib: MH)
ELECTRONIC VERSION: http://www.jewish-heritage.org/sea2.htm.
Provides detailed annotations of 18 fonds containing Jewish-related materials
(with opis' and file unit numbers).
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