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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-200Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga (GMI SPb)Otdel istorii goroda [Division of the History of the City] Opening hours: M–F 10:00–17:00 (by appointment) Holdings Research work on St. Petersburg history done by the staff of the Division for History of the City as produced significant reference materials on the basis of a wide range of archival and published sources in five subject areas, which comprise separate sectors of the division: social and political history; economic and demographic history; military history; architectural history; and the history of the city streets, and has produced significant reference materials. Each sector retains its own card files and other unpublished scholarly reference material on the history of St. Petersburg, which are available for use at the request of institutions and individual researchers on a fee basis. The Sector for the Socio-Political History of St. Petersburg, on the basis of research in archival documents, has produced three card catalogues: “The Revolutionary Movement in St. Petersburg from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to October 1917,” “Prisoners in the Peter and Paul Fortress” (arranged both alphabetically and chronologically), and “Major Political Trials of the Nineteenth Century.” The Sector for Economics and Population has card catalogues onthe estates, classes and social strata of the population of St. Petersburg (personalia); the establishment of industrial, trade, and transportation enterprises, their names and renaming; and on urban topography (18th–20th cc.) (with associated indexes). TheMilitary History Sector is continuing a card catalogue with a chronology of events in the city during the Second World War and the Siege of Leningrad, and of industrial enterprises and the transportation system. The Sector for the History of Architecture has compiled personalia files on architects, engineers, and builders of St. Petersburg (18th–20th cc.), with an index of their projects and construction work; and a topographical card catalogue entitled “The Building of St. Petersburg from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries,”with systematic references to materials from federal (RGIA) and local archives, and textual data copied from plans, drawings, and photographs. The sector devoted to the history of the city streets possesses a card catalogue entitled “The History of the Streetsof St. Petersburg” (late 17th c.–1990s), which contains information on the layout and building of streets; on notable addresses connected with eminent public and political figures representing science, culture, and business; on places of historical interest; and on monumentsand memorial plaques. There is also a card catalogue entitled “The Toponymy of St. Petersburg,” which serves as a database for the City Commission on the Naming of Streets, with information on the present and previous names of all streets, rivers, canals, bridges, and districts,and on the chronology and boundary changes involved in renaming. All the card catalogues have been compiled on the basis of detailed study of the archival documents and cartographic materials, as well as of the periodical press, city directories, memoir sources, and scholarly literature. Working conditions: Card catalogues may be used only in the presence of the division staff. |
