Russian archives

[Spielhahnjaeger]

My apologies if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find anything in the search.

Naturally, large collections of written material were captured by the Red Army and Soviet Occupation forces at the end of the war (and earlier, for that matter). Is this material accessible to the public? Is there a record of what documents were captured? I unfortunately cannot read Russian, but I was hoping some of the members here who can would have an answer. From what I've heard, archival practices in Russia are inconvenient, at best, but tons of material has been made available to researchers.

Thank you in advance for your help!

[G. Trifkovic]

Hi Spielhahnjaeger,

please check this thread out:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... t=archives

Cheers,

G.

[Spielhahnjaeger]

Hi Spielhahnjaeger,

please check this thread out:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... t=archives

Cheers,

G.

Thanks very much for the relevant thread. That's very sad to read.

[Dann Falk]

A related site you should check out is the following link:
http://militera.lib.ru/

This site contains digital copies of thousands of Soviet/Russian and other nations WW2 books. They can easily be translated using a online software, like Google translate: https://translate.google.com/

It well worth the time and effort to look it over.

Dann

[AMVAS]

They can easily be translated using a online software, like Google translate: https://translate.google.com/

Dann

Dann you are an optimist
Russian military language is quite a secret thoing for online translators

[AMVAS]

My apologies if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find anything in the search.

Naturally, large collections of written material were captured by the Red Army and Soviet Occupation forces at the end of the war (and earlier, for that matter). Is this material accessible to the public? Is there a record of what documents were captured? I unfortunately cannot read Russian, but I was hoping some of the members here who can would have an answer. From what I've heard, archival practices in Russia are inconvenient, at best, but tons of material has been made available to researchers.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I have catalogue of translated (into Russian) records in TsAMO. but they are about 3% from total amount of records hidden there. Unfortunately access to original records is restricted very much. Also nobody knows about any catalogues or other kind of classification of untranslated records. There were some movements for making some two-side (German/Russian) commission for investigating and digitising of those records, but knowing style of work of our archival structures I'm not very encouraged with possible time within which they can do it, if of course political obstracles won't close this project at all.

[Natter]

The Russian-German project to digitize German documents in the archives of the Russian Federation:
http://www.germandocsinrussia.org/de/no ... foderation

Lot's of material available for download - check the findbooks: http://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/de/n ... estand-500


...and of course, already covered: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 8&t=215741