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, just south of the city of

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. As a departmental archive of Russia, it stores documents of different staffs and offices, associations and formations, units, institutions and military academies of the Soviet Defence Ministry from 1941 until the end of the 1980s. It comes under the command of the Rear Services of the Armed Forces of Russia. It has data on the history, culture and military education of the

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. Founded in 1936, the archive moved to

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around 1946. In 1992 a branch of TsAMO was established in

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. Colonel Igor Albertovich Permyakov serves as head of the archivе, in post in 2010 and still .

History

TsAMO was founded on 2 July 1936 as the archives department of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union (NKO). In 1941, it was evacuated to the town of Buzuluk in

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. The department was renamed the History and Archives Department of the NKO in 1943, and in 1944 it became the Archives Department of the Administration of the Red Army in the NKO. In 1946, the department was relocated to

, taking over the former site of a military school. On 21 July 1947, the department became the Archive of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. On 25 February 1950, it became the Archive of the Military Ministry of the Soviet Union, and on 15 March 1953 the Archive of the

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. On 15 November 1975, the archive was renamed the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union. It briefly served as the Central Archives of the Unified Armed Forces of the

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from 12 March 1992 before becoming the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on 10 June 1992. In late March 2008

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reported unofficially that during the visit to TsAMO of Defence Minister

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, it was decided to close TsAMO and transfer of territory for building an archive.

Structure

TsAMO Russia keeps some 90,000 funds, including 18,600,000 units of storage. The organization funds are in general conformity with the principles of the organization of the

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: independent foundations are documents departments of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Defense, offices of military districts, armies, departments, divisions, units and individual agencies. TsAMO's structure includes more than a dozen departments, including the following departments that store documents on the integration of personnel: * 2nd Department – provides Award Documents (instructions on decorating and decorations sheets) * 5th Department – contains the personal files of officers and generals * 6th Department – contains documents on the political composition of the

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, including a card-index file of record losses and * 9th Department – includes a card index of losses of NCOs and other ranks, as well as a card index of those held captive and liberated by Soviet troopsIn 2006–2008, of the material of the 9th Division (reports of casualties, various documents and information about the dead and missing) were digitized and transferred to a database format OBD Memorial, available at http://www.obd- memorial.ru. * 11-second section – contains four files: *# a personal account of the officer and the general's convoy *# loss of officers and the general's convoy *# war generals and officers who died in captivity *# awarded orders and medals for all personnel of the Red Army (including privates and sergeants)

Notes

External links

General information

ЦАМО РФ на сайте Министерства обороны Российской Федерации

ЦАМО РФ на сайте «Архивы России»

Тема «ЦАМО» на форуме
сайта Всероссийское генеалогическое древо
Лариса Романовская. В списках не значится. Запросы от населения в ЦАМО РФ рассматриваются больше года
// «Культура» No. 17 (7476), май 2005 г.

// «Новая газета», 27.06.2005

Guidelines for searching at TsAMO

* ttp://genobooks.narod.ru/Arhiv_MO/arhiv-0.htm Первый раз в ЦАМО. Советы новичку
Поисковые архивные исследовани(методичка)

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Difficulties in accessing documents in TsAMO

Георгий Рамазашвили. Центральный архив Министерства обороны Российской Федерации: проблема доступа к документам
// «Отечественные архивы». 2004. No. 2.
Георгий Рамазашвили. Портянка с грифом «секретно»
// «Совершенно секретно». 2004. No. 5 (180).

// «Неприкосновенный запас». 2005. No. 2–3 (40–41). * ttps://archive.today/20070626032622/http://www.mn.ru/issue/2005-7-23 Георгий Рамазашвили. Раскопать архив Минюстом// «Московские Новости». 2005. No. 07.
Георгий Рамазашвили. Секреты-шмекреты и Куликовская битва
// «Новое литературное обозрение». 2005. No. 74.

// «Индекс/Досье на цензуру». 2003. No. 19.

// «Индекс/Досье на цензуру». 2007. No. 26. * [http://www.itogi.ru/Paper2007.nsf/Article/Itogi_2007_07_15_02_44134.html Денис Бабиченко. Тайное общество: Приказ министра обороны о рассекречивании архивов Великой Отечественной войны так и не сделал тайное явным] // «Итоги (журнал), Итоги». 2007. No. 29.
Борис Соколов. Предъявите документы!

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