A new multimedia exhibition-presentation of the Presidential Library - to the 100th anniversary of the State Archival Service of Russia

From March 7-21, 2018 a multimedia exhibition-presentation dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the State Archival Service of Russia will be open in the Presidential Library. The Main Directorate of Archival Affairs (GUAD or Glavarkhiv) under the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR was established on June 1, 1918 by the Decree "On the reorganization and centralization of archival affairs", since then this organization has implemented a single archival policy in our country.

The plasma panels of the gallery on the ground floor demonstrate visitors of the exhibition unique historical documents, such as the passport of the famous Russian diplomat K. K. Benckendorff, the letter of Catherine II, the orders of the Tobolsk Military Revolutionary Committee, the Regulations on elections to the Constituent Assembly of 1917 and many others .

The Presidential Library has a direct relationship to the archives, not only in the nature of its activities. From 1925 to 2006 in the historical complex of buildings of the Senate and the Synod was housed the Russian State Historical Archive, which today is located in a building specially built for it. The Archive is one of the key partners of the Presidential Library in the field of fund acquisition, exhibition and scientific activities.

The Presidential Library as a nation-wide electronic storage of digital copies of the most important documents on the history of Russian statehood has close ties with the leading archives of the country. Partnership agreements have been concluded with the following institutions: the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Historical Archive, the Archives Department of the Leningrad region, the Leningrad Regional State Archives in Vyborg, the State Archives of the Tyumen region.

To visit the exposition, you should first pre-register by phone (812) 334-25-14 or send an email to: excursion@prlib.ru.

Applications for accreditation should be sent in the attached form with the note "Media Accreditation" to e-mail addresses: media@prlib.ru, hudjakova@prlib.ru, Alexandra Khudyakova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 167; mob.: +7 981 788-28-08.

The letter should indicate the full name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), list of equipment carried by the phone, contact numbers, name of the media.

Please, note, that the entrance to the Presidential Library is carried out only upon prior request and upon showing a passport: participants and guests of the event go through entrance № 1, representatives of the media go through entrance № 2.