ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: B-5
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Voenno-Morskogo Flota (RGAVMF)
[Russian State Archive of the Navy]Agency: Federal'noe arkhivnoe agentstvo Rossii (Rosarkhiv)
[Federal Archival Agency of Russia]
Address: 191186, St. Petersburg, ul. Millionnaia (formerly Khalturina), 36; (new building): Serebristyi bul'var, 24
Telephone: +7 812 312-11-37, +7 812 315-90-54 (ul. Millionnaia); +7 812 393-14-83 (Serebristyi bul'var)
Fax: +7 812 312-11-37; +7 812 393-14-83
Reading room: +7 812 315-90-54 (ul. Millionnaia), +7 812 393-14-83 (Serebristyi bul'var)
E-mail: mail@rgavmf.ru
Website: http://rgavmf.ru/
Opening hours: RdngRm for Soviet-period fonds: (ul. Millionnaia, 36):
TuTh 10:00–17:00, F 10:00–16:00
(Summer [2012]: 3 July–3 August closed);
RdngRm for prerevolutionary fonds: (Serebristyi bul'var, 24, korp. 1): MW 10:00–17:00, F 10:00–16:00
(Summer [2012]: 23 July–31 August closed)
Transport: metro: Gostinyi Dvor, Nevskii prospekt; trol.: 1, 7, 9, 10; bus 10; (new building): metro: Pionerskaia + tram 47, 55, bus 127 to stop “Serebristyi bul'var”, metro: Komendantskii prospekt + bus 127 to stop “Serebristyi bul'var”
Director: Sergei Vladimirovich Cherniavskii (tel. +7 812 312-11-37, +7 812 393-11-83)
Deputy Director: Marina Evgen'evna Malevinskaia (tel. +7 812 312-86-15, +7 812 393-20-26)
Deputy Director: Liudmila Viacheslavovna Tolkacheva (tel. +7 812 312-86-15)
Deputy Director: Valerii Nikolaevich Chumak (tel. +7 812 315-90-54, add 24)
Head of Reading Room (ul. Millionnaia): Nataliia Alekseevna Gots (tel. +7 812 315-90-54 add. 39)
Head of Reading Room (Serebristyi bul'var): Elena Viktorovna Nikandrova (tel. +7 812 393-14-83, add 223)
About RGAVMF
The archive was established in 1724 attached to the State Admiralty Collegium for the collection and preservation of the records of the collegium, its expeditions and offices. RAVMF houses the complete records of the Russian and the Soviet Navies from the eighteenth century through 1940. These include fonds of central administrative institutions, commands of fleets and flotillas, naval educational establishments and scientific and research institutions, naval ports, shipbuilding and other navy yards, hydrographic and scientific expeditions, as well as personal papers of eminent navigators and naval commanders.
