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 the Russian Federation (russian: Федеральное архивное агентство Российской Федерации (Росархив), Federal'noye Arkhivnoye agentstvo Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Rosar ...

(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) * the Central State Archive of the Russian SFSR (russian: Центральный государственный архив РСФСР (ЦГА РСФСР)) (founded in 1957).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 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

(1957-1992)'', in ''History of the State archive of the Russian Federation (documents, articles, reminiscences)''. Page 211.

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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. )

External links

Official website

Page about GARF
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