Institutional Directories

Index

General Directories of Archives and Manuscript Repositories

USSR/CIS

Kutik, Vitalii Naumovich; and Grossman, Iurii Mironovich.
Spravochnik nauchnogo rabotnika: Arkhivy, dokumenty, issledovatel'.
2d ed. Lviv: "Vyshcha shkola,"1983. 499 p.
[IDC-R-14,560]
1st ed. Lviv, 1979. 335 p.
[IDC-R-14,870]
The most comprehensive directory available with helpful descriptions of holdings in many repositories and extensive bibliography of finding aids, although often uneven and incomplete in institutional coverage. Awkwardly presented for reference use. Considerably expanded in terms of descriptions of archival holdings and bibliography of finding aids from the first edition. See below the Grimsted review article with additional bibliography.

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy.
Recent Soviet Archival Literature: A Review and Preliminary Bibliography of Selected Reference Aids.
Washington, DC, 1986. 122 p. "Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Occasional Paper," vol. 204.
[IDC-in R-18,864]
SUMMARY VERSION: in Slavic Review 45, no. 3 (Fall 1986): 534–44.
A lengthy review of the Grossman and Kutik handbook, together with supplemental bibliography. See also the more recent Grimsted review article <"Increasing Reference Access to Post-1991 Russian Archives," Slavic Review 56, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 718–59,> covering Russian archival reference literature.

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy.
Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belorussia.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. xliii, 929 p. "Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University;" "Harvard Ukrainian Series."
[IDC-R-18,865]
REPRINT ED.: Ann Arbor: UMI Books on Demand.
Now significantly outdated, especially with the new names for many institutions, but still useful for basic data on the history and holdings and for comprehensive bibliography of earlier published general literature and specialized finding aids. The directory was suppressed in the USSR, and hence only available in restricted library collections (spetskhrany).

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy.
Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Ukraine and Moldavia. Book 1: General Bibliography and Institutional Directory.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. liii, 1107 p. "Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies;" "Canadian Library of Ukrainian Studies."
[IDC-R-18,866]
REPRINT ED.: Ann Arbor: UMI Books on Demand.
Now outdated by the new names for many institutions and extensive declassification, but still provides basic data on the history and holdings and a comprehensive bibliography of earlier reference literature, including general reference aids. An updated supplement and new electronic version are now in preparation in Kyiv.

Gosudarstvennye arkhivy Soiuza SSR: Kratkii spravochnik.
Edited by G. A. Belov, A. I. Loginova, et al.
Moscow: GAU, 1956. 508  p.
[IDC-R-3533]
REPRINT ED.: Cambridge: Oriental Research Partners, 1973.
Now outdated (see above), but mentions different holdings in some cases.

Akademicheskie arkhivy SSSR za 50 let sovetskoi vlasti: (Trudy 1-go soveshchaniia arkhivistov Akademii nauk SSSR i akademii nauk soiuznykh respublik, 17–23 maia 1967 g.
Edited by B. V. Levshin.
Moscow: "Nauka," 1968. 313 p. [Arkhiv AN SSSR]
[IDC-R-10,948]
An important collection of articles describing various repositories under the Academy of Sciences. Several cover holdings and publications in ARAN (AAN SSSR) and PFA RAN, while others describe archives in different institutes including Pushkinskii Dom and the Institute of the History of Material Culture.

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Moscow/St. Petersburg

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy.
Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Moscow and Leningrad.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. xxx, 437 p. "Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University."
[IDC-R-18,864]
REPRINT ED.: Ann Arbor: UMI Books on Demand.
SUPPLEMENT 1: Bibliographical Addenda. Zug, Switzerland: IDC, 1976. 203 p. "Bibliotheca Slavica," vol. 9.
[IDC-R-11,333]
Now significantly outdated, especially as regards the new names for many institutions, but still useful for basic notes on holdings and comprehensive, annotated bibliography of earlier published specialized finding aids. The 1976 Supplement extends the bibliographic coverage and provides a correlation table for the IDC microfiche editions of all of the finding aids listed in both volumes. See above additional supplemental bibliography.

Myl'nikov, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
Rukopisnye fondy leningradskikh khranilishch: Kratkii spravochnik po fondam bibliotek, muzeev, nauchno-issledovatel'skikh i drugikh uchrezhdenii.
Leningrad: GPB, 1970. 92 p.
[IDC-R-10,654]
A brief characterization of manuscript holdings in a wide range of Leningrad repositories.

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Archival Research Handbooks (with Directory Coverage)

Shepelev, Leonid Efimovich.
Arkhivnye razyskaniia i issledovaniia.
Moscow: "Vysshaia shkola," 1971. 144 p.
[IDC-R-10,652]
A brief introduction to archival research, principally for history students using nineteenth-century records (with emphasis on RGIA), with charts of government institutions and bibliography of administrative histories. Updates the same author’s 1966 handbook.

Gorfein, Grigorii Magnusovich; and Shepelev, Leonid Efimovich.
Arkhivovedenie: Uchebnoe posobie.
Leningrad: LGU, 1971. 85 p.
[IDC-R-10,653]
A brief student introduction to archival research.

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Library Directories

 

USSR/CIS


Biblioteki SSSR: Spravochnik. Compiled by V. A. Kniaziatova and N. P. Kuz'mina.
Edited by I. Iu. Bagrova, E. P. Andreeva, and O. A. Barukina. 2 vols.
Moscow: "Kniga," 1973–1974. [GBL]
[Vol. 1]: Biblioteki RSFSR. 1974. 430 p.
[Vol. 2]: Biblioteki soiuznykh respublik (bez RSFSR). 1974. 368 p.
[IDC-R-11,302]
The last published comprehensive directory of 1,972 libraries in the RSFSR and 6,637 in other union republics. Capsule treatment of each library is organized systematically, but includes only minimal notation about manuscript holdings. Updated by the typescript revision.

Biblioteki SSSR obshchestvenno-politicheskogo, filologicheskogo i iskusstvovedcheskogo profilia: Spravochnik Compiled by V. A. Kniaziatova and N. P. Kuz'mina.
Edited by I. Iu. Bagrova and M. I. Rabei.
Moscow: "Kniga," 1969. 344 p. [GBL]
[IDC-R-11,300]
Provides systematic coverage of 1,506 libraries throughout the former USSR with basic reference data and statistics about holdings, although coverage of manuscript holdings is uneven. Includes libraries in many state archives and museums.

Biblioteki SSSR: Spravochnik. Estestvennye i fiziko-matematicheskie nauki.
Compiled by N. K. Davidenkova.
Edited by A. I. Mankevich.
Leningrad: BAN, 1967. 403 p.
[IDC-R-11,301]
A companion volume <to the 1969 issuue> with coverage of libraries specializing in the physical, mathematical, and natural sciences.

Biblioteki Akademii nauk SSSR: Spravochnik.
Compiled by A. I. Chebotarev.
Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1959. 323 p.
[IDC-R-11,311]

Levinson, E. Z.
Biblioteki vysshikh uchebnykh zavedenii SSSR: Spravochnik.
Edited by R. T. Ablova.
Moscow: Izd-vo MGU, 1964. 442 p. [MGU; NB im. A. M. Gor'kogo]
[IDC-R-11,310]
Lists university libraries, followed by libraries of other institutions, subdivided by subject type. It each case, gives brief notes about manuscript holdings and a bibliography of published catalogues. Includes an index by city.

Rklitskaia, Anastasiia Dmitrievna.
Muzykal'nye biblioteki i muzykal'nye fondy v bibliotekakh SSSR: Spravochnik.
Moscow: GBL, 1972. 175 p. [GBL; Otdel notnykh izdanii i zvukozapisei]
[IDC-R-14,721]
A comprehensive directory with capsule coverage of music scores and music-related holdings in libraries throughout the USSR.

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Russian Federation

Biblioteki RSFSR (bez Moskvy i Leningrada): Spravochnik.
Compiled by V. A. Kniaziatova, G. S. Bocharova, Iu. P. Balasheva, et al.
Edited by I. Iu. Bagrova.
Moscow: "Kniga," 1964. 276 p. [GBL]
[IDC-R-11,312]
Updated by <the 1973–1974 issue, vol. 1 (see above). Issued as a companion volume to the 1979 edition.>

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Moscow

Biblioteki Moskvy: Spravochnik.
Compiled by L. A. Zykova, I. V. Kruglova, and L. M. Tianova.
Edited by E. O. Maio-Znak.
Moscow: "Kniga," 1979. 327 p. 1st ED.: Compiled by V. A. Kniaziatova and N. P. Kuz'mina.
Moscow: "Kniga," 1967. 240 p. [GBL].
[IDC-R-11,298]
The last published directory, covering 746 Moscow libraries, including those in archives and museums.

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St. Petersburg


Biblioteki Leningrada: Spravochnik.
Compiled by S. M. Babintsev.
Edited by B. M. Tolochinskaia and I. A. Fedorovskii.
Moscow: "Kniga," 1964. 158 p.
[IDC-R-11,297]
Lists 277 Leningrad libraries, updating the more extensive 1948 edition compiled by V. I. Granskii and B. I. Itskovich, but now replaced by the much more comprehensive <guide (1993)>.

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Prerevolutionary Collections and Their Fate

Mez'er, Avgusta Vladimirovna.
Slovarnyi ukazatel' po knigovedeniiu.
Leningrad: "Kolos," 1924. xii, 928 cols, viii p.
[IDC-R-11,219]
SUPPLEMENT: 3 vols.
Moscow:/Leningrad: Gos. sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1931–1934.
[IDC-R-11,220]
Articles arranged alphabetically by subject cover a broad range of library-related topics with extensive bibliography. Provides coverage with bibliography of many earlier library and manuscript collections, including an annotated list of manuscript catalogues (cols. 649–70).

Druganov, Ivan A.
"Biblioteki vedomstvennye, obshchestvennye i chastnye i sud'ba ikh v sovetskuiu epokhu." Sovetskaia bibliografiia: Sbornik, 1933, no. 1–3, pp. 185–214. 1934, no. 2, pp. 43–78; 1934, nos. 3–4 (7–8), pp. 127–67.
[IDC-in R-1798]
SUPPLEMENT: "Bibliotechnye fondy v 1918–1923 gg. (Biblioteki obshchestvennye i vedomstvennye)." Sovetskaia bibliografiia: Sbornik, 1935, no. 3(11), pp. 81–93.
[IDC-in R-1798]
An impressive survey of the fate of prerevolutionary libraries in the immediate postrevolutionary period. The first series (1933–1934) covers predominantly private libraries. The 1935 supplement covers more social and institutional collections. Both mention manuscript holdings, often with statistics.

Mintslov, Sergei Rudol'fovich.
"Sinodik bibliotek, arkhivov i kollektsii, pogibshikh vo vremia Velikoi voiny i revoliutsii." Vremennik Obshchestva druzei russkoi knigi (Paris) 1 (1925): 43–51.
Also published separately as an offprint (100 copies)—Berlin [n.d.].
[IDC-in R-3454]
An alphabetic register of over 100 predominantly private libraries, many with rich archives and manuscript collections, that perished during World War I and the revolutionary years. The data should be compared with the Druganov (1933) and Shilov (1929) accounts.

Shesterikov, Petr Stepanovich.
Postanovka bibliotechnogo dela v universitetskikh i nekotorykh drugikh bibliotekakh Rossii.
Odessa: Kommercheskaia tip., 1915. 266 p.
[IDC-R-14,617]
Surveys prerevolutionary libraries with emphasis on those in higher educational institutions.

Ivask, Udo Georgievich.
"Chastnye biblioteki v Rossii: Opyt bibliograficheskogo ukazatelia." Russkii bibliofil, 1911, no. 3, pp. 55–74; no. 4, 45–54; no. 6, 71–85; no. 7, 77–95; no. 8, 68–77.
[IDC-in 1861 mf. 4-19]
Pt. 2: Published as Prilozhenie k "Russkomu bibliofilu" 1911 goda (St. Petersburg, 1912; 80 p.).
A directory of 1,346 private libraries arranged alphabetically by name of proprietor, with brief description of holdings, including manuscript collections, location at the time, and a bibliography of published references and descriptions.

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Museum Directories

USSR/CIS


Spisok gosudarstvennykh muzeev SSSR (po sostoianiiu na . . .).
Moscow, 1969–. NII muzeevedeniia i okhrany pamiatnikov istorii i kul'tury Minkul't RSFSR]
1980 ED.: Spisok gosudarstvennykh muzeev SSSR (po sostoianiiu na 1 ianvaria 1980 goda).
Moscow: 1980. 242 p.
[IDC-R-14,692].
1969 ED.: Spisok gosudarstvennykh muzeev SSSR (po sostoianiiu na 1 ianvaria 1968 goda).
Moscow: 1969. 116 p.
[IDC-R-11,309].
Similar lists of museums throughout the USSR were published in other years, in the same format as the latest 1990 edition, but only a few were released to libraries.

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