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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-211

Last update of repository: 18 March 2020

Tsentral'nyi voenno-morskoi muzei (TsVMM)


Rukopisno-dokumental'nyi fond
[Manuscript-Documentary Fond]

Website: http://www.navalmuseum.ru/collection/...


Holdings

Total: 35,900 units; early 18th–20th cc.

The sector holds documents on the history of the Russian Fleet from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. They include original statutes, decrees, reports and other documentation issued by the naval agencies, together with documents relating to ships (logs and watch records); scientific writings written by seafarers, scholars, and shipbuilders; and biographical documents of admirals, officers, and seamen (including forms, autobiographies, charters, certificates, diaries, memoirs and recollections, and award attestations).
        There are also the personal papers of the seafarer Iu.F. Lisianskii (1773–1837); the revolutionary P.P. Shmidt (1867–1906), and various Soviet commanders: Admiral L.M. Galler (1883–1950), Commander in Chief of the Baltic Fleet and Chief of Staff of the Navy; Admiral K.I. Dushenov (1895–1940), Commander in Chief of the Northern Fleet; Admiral P.I. Smirnov-Svetlovskii (1897–1943), Commander in Chief of the Volga and Dnieper Naval Flotillas; L.E. Berlin, Orientalist and organizer of the Volga-Kama Naval Flotilla; S.P. Lukashevich, Commissar for the North Sea Navy (1920) and author of the naval dictionary; and A.G. Golovko and Ts.L. Kunikov, who fought in the Second World War.



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