Previous Names

• 1991-2003 - Moskovskoe gorodskoe ob"edinenie arkhivov (Mosgorarkhiv)
  [Moscow Consolidated Municipal Archives]
• 1961-1991 - Arkhivnoe upravlenie Mosgorispolkoma (AU Mosgorispolkoma)
  [Archival Administration of the Moscow City Executive Committee]

About Glavarkhiv Moskvy

An independent archival administration in the city of Moscow was first established in 1961 as a separate division within the Moscow City Executive Committee (Mosgorispolkom), replacing the earlier consolidated archival administration for Moscow city and oblast. The first Moscow municipal archive was established in 1962 within the structure of the City Executive Committee. From 1963 to 1976, there was a single Central State Archive of the City of Moscow (Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv g. Moskvy - TsGA g. Moskvy), to which had been transferred the Soviet-period records from the Central State Archive of Moscow Oblast (TsGAMO). In 1976 TsGA g. Moskvy was divided into three separate central archives: the Central State Archive of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction of the City of Moscow (TsGAORSS g. Moskvy), the Central State Historical Archive of the City of Moscow (TsGIA g. Moskvy), and the Central State Archive of Documentary Films, Photographs, and Sound Recordings of the City of Moscow (TsGAKFFD g. Moskvy).

At the end of 1989 the three Moscow municipal archives were brought together in a new building (ul. Profsoiuznaia, 80) and administratively reorganized with consolidated management under the Moscow City Executive Committee-and subsequently under the Mayor's Office, as the Moscow Consolidated Municipal Archives (Mosgorarkhiv). Since 1997, Mosgorarkhiv came under the restructured municipal Government of Moscow. In 2003 Mosgorarkhiv was renamed the Main Archival Administration of the City of Moscow (Glavnoe arkhivnoe upravlenie goroda Moskvy, Glavarkhiv Moskvy).

After the CPSU archives came under the administration of Roskomarkhiv in the fall of 1991, the local Moscow Party Archive became a fourth archive under Mosgorarkhiv (now Glavarkhiv Moskvy) and was renamed first the Central State Archive of Social Movements of Moscow (TsGAODM) and then in 1993 assumed the name of the Central Archive of Social Movements of Moscow (TsAODM, now Central Archive of Social-Political History of Moscow, TsAOPIM, see D-3). In late 1992 the audiovisual archive TsGAKFFD g. Moskvy was moved to that same facility, and in 1993 it was renamed the Central Moscow Archive for Documents on Special Media (TsMADSN, now Central Archive of Audio-Visual Documentation of Moscow, TsAADM, see D-4). TsGAORSS g. Moskvy was renamed the Central Municipal Archive of Moscow (TsMAM, now Central Archive of the City of Moscow, TsAGM, see D-1).

Simultaneously in 1992 under Mosgorarkhiv five other divisions were established: a Laboratory for microfilming and restoration, a Center for acquisitions and relations with agency archives, and Information center, a Center for scientific utilization and archival publications, and a publishing house "Mosgorakhiv."

In May 1993 three new archives were formally established as part of Mosgorarkhiv (now Glavarkhiv Moskvy) on the basis of specialized holdings within the previously existing archives and materials still under agency administration: the Central Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation (TsANTDM, D-5), the Central Archive of Literature and Art of Moscow (TsALIM, now abolished), and the Central Archive of Documentary Collections of Moscow (TsADKM, now the Central Moscow Archive-Museum of Personal Collections, TsMA-MLS, see D-7). TsMA-MLS is devoted to personal papers, predominantly from the Soviet period, and has already acquired most of the personal fonds previously housed in TsMAM. In 2002 an additional special archive was established for digital documentation — the Central Archive for Records on Electronic Media of Moscow (Tsentral'nyi arkhiv dokumentov na elektronnykh nositeliakh Moskvy, TsADENM, see D-6).

Guides

• Tsentral'nye arkhivy Moskvy: Putevoditel' po fondam tsentral'nykh arkhivov Moskvy. Compiled by I. G. Tarakanova et al. Edited by A. D. Stepanskii et al. 5 vols. Moscow: "Mosgorarkhiv," 1999-2000; reprinted 2002. [Mosgorarkhiv] (Lib: DLC[vols.1-4]; MH)
  • Vol. 1. 1999. 364 p.
  • Vol. 2: 1999. 268 p.
  • Vol. 3: 1999. 336 p.
  • Vol. 4: 2000. 344 p.
  • Vol. 5: 1999. 168 p.
  A fifth-volume guide, organized by subject matter, to fonds in all of the Moscow municipal archives (Mosgorarkhiv). Coverage includes records of prerevolutionary municipal and guberniia institutions in TsIAM (D-2); post-1917 institutions and agencies in TsMAM (now TsAGM, D-1) and former TsALIM (now divided between TsAGM and TsAOPIM) and related Communist Party organizations in TsAODM (now TsAOPIM, D-3), as well as scientific-technical documentation in TsANTDM (D-5), with dates and name changes for many of the creating agencies. Each volume includes indexes of personal names, place names, and institutions, as well as lists of fonds by number in each archive.
  The first volume covers records of prerevolutionary guberniia and municipal administrative judicial agencies, and local military authorities in TsIAM (D-2), postrevolutionary municipal and raion administrative and judicial agencies in TsMAM (now TsAGM, D-1), and major local municipal and oblast Communist Party and Komsomol agencies in TsAODM (now TsAOPIM, D-3). Appended lists of fonds indicate those included for each archives. Helpful introductory essays describe the institutional development of local administrative and judicial authorities, as well as a history of archives in the Moscow region.
  The second volume covers records of municipal and prerevolutionary guberniia agencies in economic and commercial spheres (over 1,900 fonds) with separate rubrics for statistical and planning agencies, banks, credit societies, and insurance companies, as well as agencies involved in trade and commerce, agriculture and forestry, and cooperatives. Coverage includes records in TsMAM (now TsAGM, D-1), TsIAM (D-2), and TsAODM (now TsAOPIM, D-3). 
  The third volume covers records of agencies and organizations in the fields of education, culture, art, music, theaters, museums, and architectural monuments; health services, physical culture, and sports; and social service and charitable agencies (over 1,750 fonds). Coverage includes records in TsMAM (now TsAGM, D-1), TsIAM (D-2), TsAODM (now TsAOPIM, D-3), TsANTDM (D-5), and former TsALIM (now divided between TsAGM and TsAOPIM).
  The fourth volume has separate sections (with separate subdivisions for prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary periods) covering records of transportation, communication, and construction agencies, and housing and communal services (ca. 1,450 fonds), TsMAM (now TsAGM, D-1), TsIAM (D-2), TsAODM (now TsAOPIM, D-3), and TsANTDM (D-5).
  The fifth volume covers records of social organizations, trade and professional unions, and political parties (ca 550 fonds), including new political and social movements of the post-Soviet period. Also covers records of religious agencies and organizations, including eparchial administrations, churches, monasteries, and parishes of Moscow Eparchy for the Russian Orthodox Church and religious institutions of other demoninations-Roman Catholic, Protestant, Armenian, Muslim, and Jewish. Includes indexes of churches and other ecclesiastical agencies. Covers records in TsMAM (now TsAGM, D-1), TsIAM (D-2), TsAODM (now TsAOPIM, D-3), and former TsALIM (now divided between TsAGM and TsAOPIM).
  The earlier announced sixth volume never appeared and is now not expected.