State Archive of the Russian Federation explained

Agency Name:	State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)
Formed:	1992
Preceding1:	Central State Archive of the October Revolution Central State Archive of RSFSR
Jurisdiction:	Government of Russia
Headquarters:	Moscow, Russia
Chief1 Name:	Larisa Aleksandrovna Rogovaya
Chief1 Position:	Director
Chief2 Name:	Sergei Vladimirovich Mironenko
Chief2 Position:	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]

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.)

External links

• Official website

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Notes and References

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.