Государственный архив Российской Федерации (GARF)

The State Archive of the Russian Federation — the central holder of the Russian and Soviet state record. OPENED 2026-09-29: the site is a reading-room archive, not an image portal. Its own front page is notices about reading room No. 1, delays issuing files from the storage of central administrative, political and state-security bodies, and — dated in the notice itself — the relocation of part of the holdings to Obninsk, closing the federal legislative, executive and judicial fonds entirely from 07.09.2026 to 15.11.2026. Anyone planning a visit or a written request in that window should read those notices first. This is the row Russia did not have: until today the atlas's only Russian source was the GERMAN Federal Archives, tagged for ground the Prussian empire once held — true, and silent about Moscow, the Volga and Siberia.