Российский государственный архив фонодокументов

Archive was established in 1932 and the Central Archive of Sound Recordings (Centralniy Arkhiv Zvukozapisey) of the Soviet Union. In the period 1934 it was renamed for Central Photographical and Sound Archive of the Soviet Union. From 1941 until 1967 it held the name Central State Archive of Cinematographic, Photographic and Phonographic Documents, in the years 1967-1992 it was back again- Central State Archive of the Sound Recordings of the Soviet Union (TzGaZ SSSR). From June 1992 it holds it current name State Sound Recordings Archives.

Archive holds various sound, photo and video recordings documenting late Czarist Russia, Soviet and Newest Russian History from 1898 until 2001.

Archive holds 486 archival fonds containing more than 200 000 archival items, in addition 3,5 million sound, photo and video recordings from the years 1898-2001. It had collected metarial from the whole of the territory or pre-Revolutionary Russia and Soviet Union.

Archival sound, photo and video materials are recorded on different carriers (some of them having already historical and museum value) such as wax cylinders, vinyl records, tapes, ton-films and various other matrixes- and digital and other copies of all of those materials.

Full catalogue of war documents from the years 1929-1946 that are held in the archive is fully available online:

http://xn--80afe9bwa.xn--p1ai/sites/default/files/War-history-USSR-fono-RGAFD/index.html

Introduction to the archival fonds can be found on the following internet site:

http://rusarchives.ru/federal/rgafd/nsa.shtml