УДК 930.253

DOI 10.28995/2073-0101-2018-3-915-925

Eduard L. Korshunov

Research Institute (of Military History) of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Aleksandr I. Rupasov

St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Archive of the Navy — Branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Stages of History

Abstract

The article reviews creation of the departmental archive of the National Commissariat of the Navy (1937) and its functioning to this day. ‘The Statute of the Branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Archive of Navy)’ was adopted on February 20, 2013. According to this document the Archive of Navy became a subdivision of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, deployed separately and functioning independently. The departmental archive began its acquisition in September 1940. Satisfactory execution of functions by Archive was impeded by multiple changes in the structure of the Directorate of the Peoples’ Commissariat of the Navy, which complicated processing of documents entering the storage. Tasks of the Archive were reduced to the following: to control files condition and document destruction; to compile lists of documents with terms of their storage; to inspect the state of archiving in the Navy; to advise archives and records management offices of central directorates (departments) of the Peoples’ Commissariat of the Navy on formation and registration of files and their transfer to archive; to enter documents of the central directorates (departments) on storage; to track and safeguard documents. On the eve the Great Patriotic War transfer of document from fleet, flotillas, and naval bases was in its initial stage. The first months of the Great Patriotic War prompted evacuation of archival fonds from Moscow to Ulyanovsk (August 1941). By January 1945 these numbered 26550 files and 1234 bags of unsorted documents. At the end of war the Archive was relocated from Ulyanovsk to Leningrad, and then to Kronstadt (1947). In 1950s the Archive continued moving to new places — to Pushkin, to Leningrad, to Gatchina (1961). The fonds of the Archive store unique documents of the Peoples’ Commissariat and Ministry of the Navy, governing bodies under the Commander-In-Chief of the Navy, research establishments, Navy schools, river flotillas, materials on ships and submarines, air force, marines, coastal and anti-aircraft defense, rear, hydrographic, medical and sanitary, and other services. Of great interest for researchers are documents of the General Staff of the Navy.

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Keywords

Archive of Navy, Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Great Patriotic War, complete set, research work.

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About author

Korshunov Eduard Lvovich, Research Institute (of Military History) of the General Staff Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, department head, Russian Federation, +7-980-385-79-42, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Rupasov Aleksandr Ivanovich, PhD in History, St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, +7-812-764-23-33, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Submitted 10.03.2018, published:

KORSHUNOV, E. L., RUPASOV, A. I. Arkhiv Voenno-morskogo flota - filial Tsentral'nogo arkhiva Ministerstva oborony Rossiiskoi Federatsii: vekhi istorii [Archive of the Navy — Branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Stages of History. In Russ.]. IN: Vestnik arhivista / Herald of an Archivist, 2018, no. 3, pp. 915-925. doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2018-3-915-925