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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: E-55Last update of repository: 15 March 2020Russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo (RGO)Previous names
The Russian Geographic Society, one of the oldest in the world, was established in 1845 on the initiative of St. Petersburg scholars, travelers, and social leaders, including F.P. Litke, Karl Ernest von Baer (K.M. Ber), Ferdinand von Wrangel (F.P. Vrangel'), and Peter Köppen (P.I. Keppen), among others, with the aim of collecting and distributing geographic information. In 1938 the Society became part of the Academy of Sciences, but since 1992, it has been an independent organization. The RGO Scholarly Archive (Uchenyi arkhiv), founded together with the Society itself in the nineteenth century, was first part of the Manuscript Division of the Library. It became a separate division of the Society in 1933, and was renamed the Scientific Branch Archive (Nauchno-otraslevoi arkhiv). The Museum of the History of the Russian Geographic Society was founded in 1970, and efforts were undertaken to collect appropriate materials. It was opened in December 1986 as a division of RGO. The museum exhibits personal effects of travellers and scholars, along with books and individual documents from the RGO archive, revealing the history of RGO. Before the Revolution the RGO had organized an ethnographic museum, which functioned until 1930, but it was subsequently closed down and some of its collections dispersed. N.B. Archival records of the Moscow Division of RGO of 1945–1987 have been deposited in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ARAN—E–1, fond 1907, 969 units). The annotation of this fond available electronically on the electronic informational system of ARAN: http://isaran.ru/isaran/isaran.php?pa.... |
