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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: E-55Last update of repository: 15 March 2020Russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo (RGO)Nauchnyi arkhiv [Scientific Archive] Telephone: +7 812 315-62-82 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://www.rgo.ru/ru/arhiv Opening hours: Tu 11:00–17:00, Th 14:00–17:00 by appointmentHoldings personal papers—144 fonds (over 50,000 units); institutional fonds—20 (1845–1980s); archival collections—14 (1795–1966); ethnographic collections—115 (over 13,000 units) The Scientific Branch Archive holds 20 institutional fonds comprising the records of the RGO, its divisions, commissions, and laboratories. The most important fond is that of the chancellery of the Geographic Society (1845–1974), including journals (protocols/minutes) of the general meetings, councils, divisions, and commissions, plans and reports, and correspondence on scientific-organizational matters and international relations, as well as materials from research expeditions. There are fonds of the various RGO commissions—the Phenological Commission, the Permanent Commission on Lakes, the Commission on Waters and Forests, the Commission for Compiling Ethnographic Maps of Russia, the Commission for Underwater Ice, and others. There are also records of the Iu.M. Shokal'skii Lectureship, the Scholarly Archive, the RGO publication house, the D.I. Mendeleev Centrographical Laboratory, and expeditions on the Lena River (1882–1884). There are materials from the First and Second All-Union Geographic Congresses (1933, 1947), and the five congresses of the Geographic Society of the USSR (1947, 1955, 1960, 1964, and 1970). There are also 76 personal fonds of Russian scientists and scholars (geographers, geologists, ethnographers, statisticians, geophysicists, climatologists, biologists, and others). These include the personal papers of geographers such as L.S. Berg, G.P. Gel'mersen, Peter Köppen (P.I. Keppen), V.L. Komarov, Peter Krusenstern (P.I. Kruzenshtern), V.A. Obruchev, N.M. Przheval'skii, P.P. Semenov-Tian-Shanskii, A.A. Tillo, N.I. Vavilov, and A.I. Voeikov; researchers on Asia G.E. Grum-Grzhimailo, P.K. Kozlov, and P.A. Kropotkin; the ethnographer N.N. Miklukho-Maklai; the oceanographer Iu.M. Shokal'skii; the polar researcher G.Ia. Sedov; and the cartographer, historian, and numismatist A.A. Il'in, among many others. There are 14 specialized manuscript collections (razriady), which were started in the nineteenth century. Collections contain scholarly writings of the Society members on ethnography, folklore, linguistics of the peoples of Russia and foreign countries, materials from expeditions and travels, research on Russian possessions in America, and also works on geography, hydrology, geomorphology, zoogeography, fishing economy, and statistics. The archive holds over 150 early Slavic manuscript books. There are various collections of graphic materials—photographic views, drawings, engravings, lithographs, postcards from various regions, cities, and towns in Russia and abroad, transparencies and negatives from expeditions, and also collections of individual and group portraits of RGO members. Working conditions: Files are delivered in the reading room the same day they are ordered. Reference facilities: There are alphabetical catalogues of names, a systematic (subject) catalogue, a chronological catalogue on RGO history, indexes to different fonds, and subject indexes. There is an administrative-territorial catalogue for documents in the phenological fond. Copy facilities: Xerox copying facilities are available in the archive. |
