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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: F-4Last update of repository: 15 March 2020former Tsentr dokumentatsii “Narodnyi arkhiv” (TsDNA)Holdings Total: ca. 500 fonds, and collections, 100,000 (50,000 units unarranged) units, 18th c.–1996 personal papers—236 fonds; audiotapes—247 units; videotapes—20 units; photo negatives—40,000 units; photo positives—10,000 units According to its founding purpose, the repository collects and preserves documentation of unofficial social organizations, political parties, religious and ecological organizations, and private documents of individual citizens that are not normally acquisitioned by state archives. The archive has over 150 fonds and collections of unofficial and nontraditional organizations (neformal'nye organizatsii) with various fragmentary documentary complexes, which have been collected since 1989, relating to contemporary socio-political history of the USSR, the Russian Federation, and other newly independent successor states. Documentation from political parties represent the whole spectrum of the political scene, from the conservative nationalist group Pamiat' and the Liberal-Democratic Party of Vladimir Zhirinovskii to left-wing splinter groups and religious-oriented parties, including a variety of printed political programs, leaflets, and other campaign and agitational literature. There are editorial records of unofficial, independent publications along with other files from various cultural, ecological, and religious societies and movements. There is an extensive collection of samizdat, unofficial, informal, and/or independent periodical publications. Miscellaneous documentation of the dissident movement includes prison relics and writings of political dissidents. The largest volume of archival holdings is documentation of personal origin with over 200 fonds of personal papers and family archives, most of which are of little known individuals. There are many personal diaries, memoirs, and family photographs, and extensive personal correspondence. In terms of mass sources, several hundred thousand letters to the editors of ten newspapers and magazines have been accessioned that otherwise would not have been preserved. There is a significant collection of oral-history records, with taped (and some transcribed) interviews with individuals who participated in major historical events, and those representing a variety of different tendencies in the political, cultural, and scientific scene. Audiovisual materials also include taped independent reportage of contemporary events in the political, social, and cultural life of Russia. For example, in terms of theater, there are video tapes and sound recordings of various productions at the Taganka Theater, and there are recordings of a number of productions at the experimental studio-theater “Na Iugo-Zapade.” There is an extensive collection of photographs—both positive prints and negatives, and also a number of videotapes. These include, for example, an extensive collection of photographs from Moscow University (1950s–1970s) by V.I. Vasil'ev, and views of Moscow buildings and unofficial gatherings by R.B. Kotel'nikov. |
