#  Publications and Guides for the Russian Archives 

 



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[**ArcheoBiblioBase**](http://www.iisg.nl/~abb)  
East View Information Services, starting in February 2020, has been hosting the ArcheoBiblioBase (ABB) Internet directory and bibliographic information system for archives in the Russian Federation. Dedicated to supplying uncommon information from extraordinary places for academic, corporate, legal and government needs, East View’s plans include essential updating and expansion of ABB in consultation with Dr. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, and an Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. The ABB website database developed by the International Institute of Social History currently displays data of nearly 430 archives and manuscript repositories of the Russian Federation (with an additional 87 administering agencies) for which coverage has recently been updated.  
 Moscow and St. Petersburg coverage currently extends to over 250 federal, local state and non-state repositories, including libraries, museums, academic, research, and educational institutions. Presenting data about unpublished sources of all types and periods, from the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (AP RF) to the Russian Archive of Early Acts (RGADA); from film studios to memorial and factory museums. It provides basic reference to holdings and reference bibliography for those using traditional state and CPSU records, medieval manuscripts, and personal papers. The directory provides a starting place to locate manuscript maps, folk songs, motion pictures, genealogical data, technical documentation, and architectural drawings, to name only a few among the specialized sources covered.

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[**Russian Archives Online**](http://www.russianarchives.com/)  
Russian Archives Online (RAO) is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, and fine art featuring support materials and robust archival search engine.

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[**Annals of Communism, Yale University Press**](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/series/annals-of-communism-series)

[**Access to Russian Archives**](http://online.eastview.com/projects/ticfia/index.html)  
***Access to Russian Archives*** is an online database containing descriptions of approximately 80,000 archival fonds (record groups) from more than 20 guidebooks on Russian federal archives and 40 regional archives published from 1987 to 2004. Both printed and handwritten guides are available in digital formats, providing the most comprehensive access to the holdings of the entire Russian archive system in one simple, user-friendly electronic format.