State Archive of the Russian Federation
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1992 |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Russia |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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| Parent agency | Presidential Administration of Russia (Federal Archival Agency) |
| Website | www.statearchive.ru |
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 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).