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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-1Last update of repository: 24 June 2020Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii muzei (GIM)Fond kartograficheskikh materialov Otdela pis'mennykh istochnikov [Fond of Cartographic Materials of the Division of Written Sources] Address: Moscow Telephone: +7 495 692-10-39 Website: http://www.shm.ru/kollektsii-i-muzeyn... Head: Vladimir Erikovich Bulatov (tel. +7 495 692-10-39) Holdings Total: over 42,000 units units; 16th–20th cc. atlases, maps and plans—41,523 units; globes—18 units This division contains manuscript and printed maps of both Russian and foreign origin and includes atlases, globes, and plans done on various media (such as paper and silk), and using different techniques. Many of these were acquired as part of private collections (P.Ia. Dashkov, I.E. Zabelin, and A.P. Bakhrushin) or from institutions such as the Military History Museum. The collection includes eighteenth century Russian manuscript maps; and cartographic materials from the General Land Survey of Russia, such as the manuscript “Atlas of Tver Namestnichestvo” (1783–1793). Of particular interest from the postrevolutionary period are cartographic sources from the first years of Soviet rule, showing environmental and social phenomena, including historical, administrative, and demographic maps, as well aseconomic, scientific, and cultural maps. The division also has maps of seas and rivers, and maps and globes of the heavens. Reference facilities: There are two inventory card indexes&mash;to acquisition register numbers and to inventory registers—”and also a systematic card catalogue. |
