Internet and history: The website "Documents of Soviet-era" enriched with new materials

About 41 thousand electronic copies of documents from the fund of the USSR Council of People's Commissars (SNK USSR) of the Great Patriotic War, stored in the State archive of the Russian Federation, are presented at the website "The documents of the Soviet era". Unique inter archival project, created by the Federal Archival Agency, aims to promote further scientific and objective knowledge of the Soviet period, a broader historical literacy of Russian and foreign citizens.

Facts and information from reliable sources make it possible to better understand the undistorted, full image of the national past in its true heroism and drama, to help researchers in the development of certain complex and insufficiently studied stages of Soviet history.

The website in addition to materials from the State archive of the Russian Federation are placed the electronic copies of the documents stored in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History: electronic copies of documents from the Politburo of the funds (1919-1932), J. V. Stalin (1866-1986), the Comintern (1919-1943), the State defense Committee (GKO) (1941-1945). 

It is placed a number of electronic copies of documents from the fund of the city of Gorky Defense Committee (GGKO) from the state of social and political archives of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

October 5, 2016 the State Archive said that the website "Documents of the Soviet era" was enriched with new documents from the collections of Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI).

"At the website during the digitization will be presented complexes of documents that are crucial for understanding the Soviet era: the database and collection of digitized copies of archive documents which are stored in federal archives and publicly available, as well as the texts of the relevant documentary publications and directories", - said in welcoming the head of the Federal archive agency Andrei Artizov.