ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: B 14

Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv Dal'nego Vostoka (RGIA DV)

[Russian State Historical Archive for the Far East]

Agency: Federal'noe arkhivnoe agentstvo Rossii (Rosarkhiv)
[Federal Archival Agency of Russia]

Address: 690600, Vladivostok, ul. Aleutskaia, 10a; [previous address: 634050, g. Tomsk, ul. Karla Marksa, 16]
Telephone: (423-2) 41-21-29; Fax: (423-2) 41-21-29
E-mail: rgiadv@online.vladivostok.ru
Website: http://www.rusarchives.ru/federal/rgiadv/
Hours: M-F 9:00-16:30 (July-August closed)
Director: Aleksandr Anatol'evich Toropov (tel. 41-21-29, 41-19-19)
Deputy Director: Andrei Nikolaevich Zotov (tel. 41-21-29, 41-19-19)

Previous Names

(1943-VI.1992) Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv RSFSR Dal'nego Vostoka (TsGA RSFSR DV)
[Central State Archive of the RSFSR for the Far East]

About RGIA DV

RGIA DV was founded as a separate central state archive in 1943 in Tomsk to retain records from institutions in the Khabarovsk and Primor'e Krai and in Amur, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and Chita Oblasts, predominantly covering the period from the mid-nineteenth century through 1940.

Since the opening of Vladivostok to visitors in 1991, the archive has been transferring its holdings from its earlier location in Tomsk.

Access

Most of the records held by the archive have been declassified. However, in connection with the post-1991 transfer of the archive from Tomsk to Vladivostok, some of the holdings are still in a transitory state and cannot readily be made available to researchers. Researchers should make advance inquiries to determine available holdings and request specific materials needed.

Recent General Reference Aids

Surveys

Kratkii mezharkhivnyi spravochnik (po odnoimennym fondam tsentral'nogo, kraevykh, oblastnykh arkhivov Dal'nego Vostoka). 1869-1980 gg. Compiled by L. L. Lozovaia, T. P. Kasatkina, and N. I. Mikhailova. Tomsk, 1992. 60 p. [TsGA RF DV]
Describes record groups (1869-1980) that have been divided, parts of which are now held in RGIA DV, and the state archives of Primor'e and Khabarovsk Krai and in Amur, Kamchatka, Magadan, Sakhalin, and Chita oblasts.

"Informatsiia o fondakh RGIA DV, peremeshchennykh iz g. Tomsk v g. Vladivostok na 01.01.95."Informatsionnyi biulleten', Vladivostok. 1995, no. 1, pp. 22-23.

Research Report

Bone, Jonathan. "Archival Access in Vladivostok: A Model for Moscow?"AAASS NewsNet 37:5 (November 1997): 5-6.

Archival Serial

Izvestiia Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo istoricheskogo arkhiva Dal'nego Vostoka: [Sbornik nauchnykh trudov]. Vladivostok: Izd-vo Dal'nevostochnogo un-ta/RGIA DV, 1996-. 8 issuess published annually through 2004. (Lib: DLC[vols.1,5-7]; MH[v.1, 3])
A serial issued by the archive with documentary publications from and regional studies based on RGIA DV holdings as well as reports on archival-related developments. The second volume (1997) includes reports from the Russian-American seminar on archives held in Vladivostok in April 1996.