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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-217

Last update of repository: 18 March 2020

Muzei istorii militsii Glavnogo upravleniia vnutrennikh del Sankt-Peterburga i Leningradskoi oblasti


Holdings

Total: ca. 3,500 units, 1917–1990s
negatives—2,719; personal papers—ca. 600 units

In its Depository of Fonds (Fondokhranilishche) the museum holds documents and photographs relating to the history of the militia under the Main Administration of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast. Documentation relates to such varied matters as criminal investigation, militia participation in military operations during the World War II, and the training of police dogs. There are administrative documentation and biographical materials on NKVD/ MVD veterans, including promotions and awards, letters, memoirs and recollections, photographs, among others. There are also documents (mainly photographs) on the history of the St. Petersburg police in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.


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