ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: C-5
Tsentral'nyi voenno-morskoi arkhiv (TsVMA)
[Central Naval Archive]Agency: Arkhivnaia sluzhba Ministerstva oborony Rossiiskoi Federatsii
[Archival Service of the Ministry of Defence of Russian Federation]
General'nyi shtab Voenno-Morskogo Flota RF
[General Staff of the Navy of the Armed Forces]
Address: 188300, Leningradskaia Oblast, Gatchina, Krasnoarmeiskii prosp., 2; General Staff: 103175, Moscow, K-175
Telephone: (813-71) 948-81, 944-76, 939-93
Opening hours: M–F 8:20–16:40
Transport: suburban train from Baltic or Varshavskii Station to Gatchina
Chief: Igor Vladimirovich Shchetin (tel. [813-71] 948-81)
Deputy Chief: Mikhail Alekseevich Levkin (tel. [813-71] 944-76)
About TsVMA
Based in Gatchina since 1961 and subordinate to the Chief of the Navy General Staff, the Archive serves as the central repository for all post-1941 naval records. The Archive holds the records of central administrative agencies—fonds of the Navy General Staff, the Main Administration of the People’s Commissariat of the Navy, and the Ministry of the Navy—as well as those of staffs and commanders of fleets and flotillas, as well as various formations, military units, ships, and other institutions subordinate to them, all fleets and flotillas, naval units, research and educational institutions, naval ports, shipbuilding and other enterprises, and naval hydrographic and scientific expeditions, dating from 1941 to the present. The Archive is one of the largest repositories in the country for records of the World War II.
Arkhivnyi otdel Tsentral'nogo voenno-morskogo arkhiva
[Archival Division of the Central Naval Archive]
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