The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) (russian: Государственный архив Российской Федерации (ГАРФ)) is a large

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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

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(mostly concerning the activity of police) * personal records (including archives of some members of the imperial

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from the early 19th century to 1918) * official documents of the supreme national legislative and executive institutions of the

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(1917) * records of

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as an independent state (1917-1922) and as a territorial entity of the

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(1923-1991) * archives of the

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(1922-1991) * records of the

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(since 1992) * documents from many other sources The State Archive, established in

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in 1992, acquired the collections of: * the Central State Archive of the

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(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 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

(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.

Notes

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
at the Dutch

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