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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-200Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga (GMI SPb)Nauchnyi arkhiv [Scientific Archive] Holdings Total: ca. 50,000 units; 1918–2004 The archive retains the administrative records and other materials of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg. These include organizational and administrative records, and documents relating to the scholarly, educational, and exhibition functions of the museum and its acquisition work. A whole complex of documents is devoted to the restoration work of the Peter and Paul Fortress during the Soviet period. This complex contains planning and design documentation, including architectural measurements and technical drawings; photographs of the progress of the restoration work during the 1950s; and photocopies of the plans of the Peter and Paul Fortress dating back to 1703 and of contemporary restoration projects. The exhibition functions of the museum are represented by a collection of artistically designed exhibition projects. Material on city planning at various periods can be found in a collection of plans and scaled projections of architecture and landscape gardening techniques practiced in ancient Egypt, Babylon, Russia, France, and other countries. The archive also holds materials from the defunct Museum of the Defense and Blockade of Leningrad, administrative documentation, and documents on the work of industrial enterprises in the city during the years of the siege, including decodings of broadcasts made by factory radio stations. The collection of memoirs and recollections contains documents of personal origin and papers recounting the most important events in the life of St. Petersburg during the twentieth century, as well as material on the history of individual families. There is a collection of the personal files of soldiers who were awarded the honor of Heroes of the Soviet Union and of the officers and men who fought on the Leningrad Front, in the home guard divisions, sailors of the Baltic Fleet, and among the partisans of the Leningrad Oblast. The “Chronicle of the Siege” (“Blokadnaia khronika”) tells the story of each of the 900 days of the Siege of Leningrad. N.B. Part of the museum records for the years 1918–1929 is held in TsGALI SPb (D–18, fond 72). |
