Agency Name: | Russian State Archive of Film and Photo |
Formed: | 1926 |
Jurisdiction: | Government of Russia |
Website: | www.rgakfd.ru |
Russian State Film and Photo Archive (Russian: Российский государственный архив кинофотодокументов), also known as Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, or Krasnogorsk Archive, or simply RGAKFD (Russian: РГАКФД), is an archive of documentary newsreels and photographs located at Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The archive contains more than 1 million photos and has a virtually complete collection of newsreels from 1919 to 1985 that documents the political, military, and other diverse episodes of the USSR.