State Archive of the Russian Federation

{{Short description|Russian state archive}}

{{Expand Russian| Государственный архив Российской Федерации|date= January 2011}}

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|agency_name = State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)

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|formed = 1992

|preceding1 = Central State Archive of the October Revolution
Central State Archive of RSFSR

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|jurisdiction = Government of Russia

| headquarters = Moscow, Russia

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|chief1_name = Larisa Aleksandrovna Rogovaya

|chief1_position = Director

|chief2_name = Sergei Vladimirovich Mironenko

|chief2_position = Scientific supervisor

|parent_agency = Presidential Administration of Russia (Federal Archival Agency)

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|website = [http://www.statearchive.ru/ www.statearchive.ru]

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The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) ({{langx|ru|Государственный архив Российской Федерации (ГАРФ)}}) is a large Russian state archive managed by Rosarkhiv (the Federal Archival Agency of Russia). It houses documents from the highest bodies of Russian authority, including:

• some official documents relating to the history of the Russian Empire (mostly concerning the activity of police)
• personal records (including archives of some members of the imperial Romanov from the early 19th century to 1918)
• official documents of the supreme national legislative and executive institutions of the Russian Provisional Government (1917)
• records of Soviet Russia as an independent state (1917-1922) and as a territorial entity of the USSR (1923-1991)
• archives of the Soviet Union (1922-1991)
• records of the Russian Federation (since 1992)
• documents from many other sources

The State Archive, established in Moscow in 1992, acquired the collections of:

• the Central State Archive of the October Revolution ({{langx|ru|Центральный государственный архив Октябрьской революции, высших органов государственной власти и органов государственного управления (ЦГАОР СССР)}}) (founded in 1920)Наумов В. П., Центральный государственный архив Октябрьской революции (1920-1992)//История Государственного архива Российской Федерации (документы, статьи, воспоминания), с. 158. (Naumov V. P., The Central state archive of the October Revolution (1920-1992), in History of the State archive of the Russian Federation (documents, articles, reminiscences). Page 158).
• the Central State Archive of the Russian SFSR ({{langx|ru|Центральный государственный архив РСФСР (ЦГА РСФСР)}}) (founded in 1957).Иофис Г. Н., Центральный государственный архив РСФСР (1957-1992)//История Государственного архива Российской Федерации (документы, статьи, воспоминания), с. 211. (Iofis G. N., The Central state archive of RSFSR (1957-1992), in History of the State archive of the Russian Federation (documents, articles, reminiscences). Page 211.