RESEARCHING RUSSIAN ROOTS

 

 

Rambler's Top100 THE GATEWAY TO GENEALOGY IN RUSSIA


Russian Archives

Updated on July 8, 2005


 

Archives in Russia (a list of federal archives)

Guides to Russian Archives (The Stanford University Library)

Russian archives list (incomplete, in Russian)

Federal Russian archives (in Russian)

Moscow City Archives Association

UNESCO Archives Portal


Federal archives

Federal Archive Service of the Russian Government
Ilinka, 12,
103132 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 206-24-21, 206-27-85, 206-23-25, 206-35-31;
Fax.: 7 (095) 200-42-05

State Archive of the Russian Federation
Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 17
119817 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 245-81-41; Fax.: 7 (095) 245-12-87

Russia's State Archive of Literature and Arts
Vyborgskaya, 3, korp. 2,
125212 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 159-73-92; Fax.: 7 (095)159-73-81

Russia's State Archive of Ancient Acts
Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 17
119817 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 245-83-23; Fax.: 7 (095) 245-30-98

Russian Center of Safekeeping and Studying the Recent History Documents (former Communist Party Archive)
Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 15
103821 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7(095) 229-97-26; Fax.: 7 (095) 292-90-17

Russian State Historical Archive
Angliyskaya Embankment, 4
190000 St. Petersburg, Russia
Tel.: 7 (812) 315-54-35; 311-09-26;
Fax: 7 (812) 311-22-52

Russian State Military Archive
Admirala Makarova, 29
125884 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 159-80-91; Fax: 7 (095) 159-80-91

Russian State Military Historical Archive
2 Baumanskaya, 3
107864 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 261-20-70

Russian State Archive of Economics
Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 17
119817 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 245-26-64

Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire
Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya, 15
113093 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 236-52-01

Central Archive of the RF Ministry of Defense
Kirova, 74
142100 Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 137-91-71

Russian State Naval Archive
Millionnaya, 36
191065 St. Petersburg, Russia
Tel.: 7 (812) 315-90-54; Fax.: 7 (812) 312-11-31

Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East
Aleutskaya, 10A,
690000 Vladivostok, Russia
Tel.: 7 (423) 226-92-20; Fax.: 7 (423) 226-92-20


State Archive of Altai Territory (Barnaul)

State Archive of Altai Republic (Gorno-Altaisk)
Kirova, 16,
659700 Gorno-Altaisk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (38822) 2-44-18; 2-79-00

Altai Regional Server of Historical Research and Education

State Archive of Amur Region
Shevchenko, 46,
675000 Blagoveschensk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (4162) 42-49-91 or 42-53-01

State Archive of Arkhangelsk Region
Shubina, 1
163045 Arkhangelsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8182) 43-97-77 or 43-00-77

State Archive of Astrakhan Region
Astrakhan, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8512) 25-14-12

Central State Historical Archive of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Karl Marx, 4,
Ufa, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3472) 23-39-22

State Archive of Belgorod Region
Mokrousov, 14,
Belgorod, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0722) 35-90-58

State Archive of Bryansk Region
Fokina, 45a
241000 Bryansk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0832) 46-18-92; 46-37-25

National Archive of the Republic of Buryatia
Suhe-Bator, 9a
Ulan-Ude, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3012) 21-35-01; 21-21-80; 21-41-91

State Archive of Chelyabinsk Region
Sverdlovsky Prospekt, 30A
Chelyabinsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3512) 35-84-33

State Archive of Chita Region
Butina, 55
672021 Chita, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3022) 23-93-31

Central State Archive of Chuvash Republic
Pr. Lenina, 16B
Cheboksary, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8352) 22-38-94; 22-32-91; 22-41-68

State Archive of Dagestan Republic
M. Gadjiev, 172
367032 Makhachkala, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8722) 67-92-65; 68-08-29

State Archive of Irkutsk Region
Baikalskaya, 79
664047 Irkutsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3952) 23-04-05

State Archive of Ivanovo Region
Kukonkovykh, 1,
153008 Ivanovo, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0932) 29-36-07

State Archive of Kaliningrad Region (Koenigsberg)
Komsomolskaya, 32,
236000 Kaliningrad, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0112) 21-96-28

State Archive of Kaluga Region
Pos. Kooperativny, 1
248620 Kaluga, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0842) 57-65-52

Republic of Karelia Archive Department
Kuibysheva, 6-a,
185035 Petrozavodsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8142) 77-52-11; 77-61-71

State Archive of Kemerovo Region
Prospekt Lenina, 3A
650024 Kemerovo, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3842) 28-33-32

State Archive of Khabarovsk Region
Dm. Nagishkina, 4A,
680000 Khabarovsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (4212) 30-53-00

National Archive of the Khakassia Republic
Khakasskaya, 73
626000 Abakan, Russia

State Archive of Kirov Region (Vyatka)
Karl Marx, 142
610027 Kirov, Russia
Tel./fax.: 7 (8332) 67-51-05

National Archive of Komi Republic
Pervomaiskaya, 90,
Syktyvkar, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8212) 42-07-36; 42-16-87

State Archive of Kostroma Region
Severnoi Pravdy, 24
156026 Kostroma, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0942) 54-59-45

State Archive of Krasnodar Region (Kuban)
Stavropolskaya, 151a
350058 Krasnodar, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8612) 33-97-57; 33-13-24

State Archive of Krasnoyarsk Region
Karla Marksa, 6
660049 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3912) 27-78-50; 27-07-57

State Archive of Kurgan Region
Sverdlova, 11,
640003 Kurgan, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3522) 44-88-84

State Archive of Kursk Region
Lenina, 57
305000 Kursk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0712) 56-67-17

Leningrad State Regional Archive
Shturma, 1
188900 Vyborg, Leningrad oblast, Russia
Tel.: 7 (812) 782-23-46

State Archive of Lipetsk Region
Papina, 2-B,
389024 Lipetsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0742) 74-05-72

State Archive of the Republic of Mari-El
Karl Marx, 82,
424000 Yoshkar-Ola, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8362) 55-42-37, 75-31-40, 75-08-91

National Archive of the Republic of Mordovia
Moskovskaya, 31
Saransk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8342) 17-22-04; 17-21-85

Central Historical Archive of Moscow
Profsoyuznaya, 80
117393 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 128-67-86

Central State Archive of Moscow Region
Azovskaya, 17
113149 Moscow, Russia
Tel.: 7 (095) 318-03-37

State Archive of Murmansk Region
Karl Liebknecht, 35,
183038 Murmansk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8152) 42-15-85

State Archive of Nizhny-Novgorod Region
Studencheskaya, 15
603022 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8312) 33-46-63

State Central Archive of North Ossetia - Alania Republic
Pushkinskaya, 10
Vladikavkaz, Russia
Tel.: 7 (86722) 33-35-92; 33-36-48

State Archive of Novgorod Region
Dukhovskaya, 31,
173003 Veliky Novgorod, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8162) 27-32-47, 27-41-75

State Archive of Novosibirsk Region
Sverdlova, 16
630007 Novosibirsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3832) 23-53-01
E-mail: kok@obladm.nso.ru

State Archive of Omsk Region
Tretyakovskogo, 1
644099 Omsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3812) 25-53-46; 25-14-17

State Archive of Orel Region
Leskova, 24
302033 Orel, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0862) 24-54-48

State Archive of Orenburg Region
Sovetskaya, 16
460014 Orenburg, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3532) 77-59-45

State Archive of Penza Region
Dzerzhinskogo, 7,
Penza, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8412) 64-45-10

Central Archive of Perm Region
Studencheskaya, 36
614070 Perm, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3422) 48-36-47

State Archive of Primorye Territory
Aleutskaya, 10a
Vladivostok, Russia
Tel.: 7 (4232) 41-21-26; 41-19-35

State Archive of Pskov Region
Petrova, 1
180042 Pskov, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8112) 53-56-85; 53-56-83

State Archive of Rostov Region
Voroshilovsky, 28
344006 Rostov-na-Donu, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8632) 40-31-07; 40-48-92

State Archive of Ryazan Region
Kreml, 14
390000 Ryazan, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0912) 77-48-29

State Archive of Samara Region
Molodogvardeiskaya, 35
443099 Samara, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8462) 33-62-72

State Archive of Saratov Region
Kutyakova, 15
410600 Saratov, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8452) 24-32-39

State Archive of Smolensk Region
Soborny Dvor, 5
214000 Smolensk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0810) 35-565

Central State Archive of St. Petersburg
Varfolomeyevskaya, 15
193171 St. Petersburg, Russia
Tel.: 7 (812) 560-68-62

Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg
Pskovskaya, 18
190008 St. Petersburg, Russia
Tel./fax.: 7 (812) 219-79-61

State Archive of Stavropol Region
Lomonosova, 12
355003 Stavropol, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8652) 32-66-01, 35-52-53

State Archive of Sverdlovsk Region
Vainera, 17
Ekaterinburg, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3432) 51-34-54

State Archive of Tambov Region
Sovetskaya, 107
392000 Tambov, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0752) 72-95-05

National Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan
Kremlevskaya, 2A
420111 Kazan, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8432) 38-59-48; fax.: 92-37-60

Russian State Far East Archive (Tomsk)
K. Marx, 26
634050 Tomsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3822) 22-29-15

State Archive of Tula Region
Pionerskaya, 17
300007 Tula, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0872) 37-00-61

State Archive of Tver Region
Ul. Gorkogo, 71A
170005 Tver, Russia
Tel.: 7 (08222) 31-28-07, 31-26-94, 31-56-94
E-mail: post@gato.tunis.tver.su

State Archive of Tyumen Region
Geologorazvedchikov, 21
625026 Tyumen, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3452) 32-16-41

Central State Archive of Udmurtian Republic
Udmurtskaya, 264
426034 Izhevsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (3412) 25-82-32

State Archive of Ulyanovsk Region (Simbirsk)
Per. Gogolya, 11,
Ulyanovsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8422) 34-54-91; 34-43-81; 34-52-77

State Archive of Vladimir Region
Baturina, 8A
600017 Vladimir, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0922) 23-16-50; 23-81-57

State Archive of Volgograd Region
Kommunisticheskaya, 30,
400131 Volgograd, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8442) 33-57-22

State Archive of Vologda Region
Maltseva, 17
160001 Vologda, Russia
Tel.: 7 (8172) 72-36-45; 25-22-61

State Archive of Voronezh Region
Plekhanovskaya, 7
394018 Voronezh, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0732) 52-58-80

Central State Archive of Sakha (Yakutia)
Dzerzhinskogo, 41
Yakutsk, Russia
Tel.: 7 (4112) 43-96-92; 43-95-61

State Archive of Yaroslavl Region
Sovetskaya, 68
150003 Yaroslavl, Russia
Tel.: 7 (0852) 30-73-78



 

Vital records (data on births, marriages and deaths) and the records of censuses are kept in different types of archives in Russia:

For periods before about 1790, these records can be found at the Moscow-based Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.

For periods roughly falling between 1790 and 1920, the records are kept at regional state archives.

Russia has 89 territorial units (with different names such as respublika, oblast, krai, etc.). Each mainrains a separate regional state archive. 

After 1920, archives of regional ZAGS ( local registration bureaus) are the place to search. These archives provide information free of charge, but to direct descendants only.

Personal record files exist also at specific regional and federal archives of the defunct Communist Party, Ministry of Defense, various ministries and other governmental institutions.    

 

 

© 2000 Mikhail Kroutikhin