Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences

 Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (abr. Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences; ARAN) is a research institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The oldest academic scientific archive in Russia. It was founded in 1728 inSt. Petersburg for storing documents of the Conference (General Meeting) St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In 1963, the status of the main archival institution was established Academy of Sciences received the archive department in Moscow.



History

History of the Russian Academy of Sciences

St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1724-1917)

Russian Academy of Sciences (1917-1925)

USSR Academy of Sciences (1925-1991)

Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1991)

The archive was founded on January 6 (17), 1728 to store documents of the General Assembly and the Chancellery Academy of Sciences.


According to the Charter of the Academy of Sciences of 1747, the management of the archive was ex officio assigned to the Conference Secretary of the Academy of Sciences.


Since 1912, a special position of head of the archive was established.


Archive Managers by year of appointment

1728-Gerhard Friedrich Miller

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1912 — Modzalevsky, Boris Lvovich

1929 — Knyazev, Georgy Alekseevich

1963 — Levshin, Boris Venediktovich

2003 — Afiani, Vitaly Yuryevich

2018 — Tolstikov, Alexander Genrikhovich Acting Director

2019 — Rabotkevich, Alexander Viktorovich

Official names

History of archive and branch names by year of renaming:


1728-Archive of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg).

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1925-Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Leningrad).

1935-Moscow Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad Branch.

1991-Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) with the St. Petersburg branch.

2007-Establishment of the Russian Academy of Sciences Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) with a St. Petersburg branch.

2012 - Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) with a St. Petersburg branch (SPbF ARAN).


Current state

Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences connects the functions of the largest in the Russia's repository of scientific documentation, the main archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Research Institute. The Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences provides formation and preservation of the Archive Fund of the Russian Academy of Sciences; scientific description and development of archive funds; providing institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences and various users with retrospective information of important scientific and socio-cultural significance; scientific development of problems of the history of the Academy of Sciences and Science, archivology, archeography, source studies, restoration and conservation of documents of the Archive Fund of the Russian Academy of Sciences.


In accordance with the Regulations on the Archive Fund of the Russian Federation approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 552 of March 17 , 1994, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences issued Resolution No. 125 of June 21, 1994" On Approval of Normative Acts on the improvement of Archival affairs in the Russian Academy of Sciences", which approved the Regulations on the Archival Fund of the Russian Academy of Sciences.


According to the Regulations, the Archive Fund of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a collection of documents generated in the activities of the Russian Academy of Sciences, its institutions, organizations and enterprises of scientific, socio-cultural and historical significance. Documents of the Archive Fund of the Russian Academy of Sciences are an integral part of the Archive Fund of the Russian Federation. In accordance with applicable law and the Charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences: "the Russian Academy of Sciences holds manuscripts of scientists, writers, art and culture, and archival materials of the institutions of RAS and other materials of historical value, in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the archives of scientific institutions of the Academy, in the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, not surrendering them to the national repository."


In April 2019, the activities of the RAS Archive were actually suspended, and it was on the verge of liquidation[4]. Since April 8, 2019, the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as its branch in St. Petersburg, have been closed "indefinitely"[5]. On June 19, 2019, the reading room of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences resumed its work[6]. Since November 1, 2019, the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been closed due to preparations for moving to a new building. In December 2020, the new Archive building of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, worth 2,566 million rubles, was put into operation. 


Structure

The archive fund of the Russian Academy of Sciences is located in more than 40 archive institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition to the RAS Archive in Moscow and its branch in St. Petersburg, the academic archive network is represented by scientific archives of branches and centers of the Russian Academy of Sciences and scientific and industry archives of institutions-Research Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which have the right to permanently store documents. Among them::


Scientific Archive Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk)

Scientific Archive Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Yekaterinburg)

Scientific ArchiveBuryat Scientific Center SB RAS (Ulan-Ude)

Scientific Archive Irkutsk Scientific Center SB RAS (Irkutsk)

Scientific Archive Yakut Scientific Center SB RAS (Yakutsk)

Scientific Archive Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar)

Scientific Archive Dagestan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Makhachkala)

Scientific Archive Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodsk)

Scientific Archive Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Apatity, Murmansk region.)

Scientific Archive Pushchino Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushchino, Moscow region.)

Scientific Archive Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ufa)

Scientific Archive Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Department of Manuscripts and Documents Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg)

Archive of Orientalists of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg)

Scientific Archive of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg)

Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg)

St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences

A. M. Gorky Archive Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Department of Manuscript and Book Collections of the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Handwriting Department Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House)RAS

Center for Oriental Manuscripts and Woodcuts Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude)

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