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GENERAL REFERENCE AIDS:
Guides
Putevoditel' po Tsentral'nomu gosudarstvennomu voenno-istoricheskomu arkhivu.
Moscow, 1941. 199 p.
[IDC-R-11,226]
The first and only Soviet published guide to the archive that was openly available to researchers, but much less complete than subsequent initially classified ones (see above).
"Voenno-morskaia sektsiia: I–Voennyi otdel."
In Arkhivy SSSR: Leningradskoe otdelenie Tsentral'nogo istoricheskogo arkhiva: Putevoditel' po fondam, edited by A. K. Drezene, pp. 167–96.
Leningrad: Lenoblizdat, 1933.
[IDC-in R-10,816]
Describes fonds that comprised the Leningrad Branch of TsGVIA and were later moved to Moscow.
RGVIA History
"[Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv]."
Informatsionnyi biulleten' [GAU], 1958, no. 9.
[IDC-R-11,315]
The entire issue of the GAU journal contains articles devoted to the holdings and work of TsGVIA. Includes a brief history of the archive and a survey of the prerevolutionary opisi prepared by the Moscow Division of the General Archive of the General Staff.
Khripach, I.
"Moskovskii tsentral'nyi istoricheskii arkhiv—Voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv."
Arkhivnoe delo, 1926, no. 8–9, pp. 3–25.
[IDC-R-10,755]
A detailed survey of the formation of the archive as it existed in 1925, after the formation of the separate Archive of the Red Army (now RGVA), with important coverage of prerevolutionary reference publications.
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Opisi del (Katalog) Moskovskogo otdeleniia Obshchego arkhiva Glavnogo shtaba.
Edited by D. F. Maslovskii.
4 vols.
Moscow–St. Petersburg, 1890–1893.
Vol. 1: Opis' del sekretnogo povyt'ia Moskovskogo otdeleniia Obschego arkhiva Glavnogo shtaba: (47-ia opis'). Moscow: Tip. shtaba M. voennogo okruga, 1890.
Vol. 2: Opis' del voinskoi komissii i kabineta (121 i 119 opisi). St. Petersburg: Tip. I. N. Skorokhodova, 1891.
Vol. 3: Opis' del fel'dmarshalov grafa Rumiantseva-Zadunaiskogo i kniazia Potemkina-Tavricheskogo (193 i 194 opisi). St. Petersburg: Tip. I. N. Skorokhodova, 1892.
Vol. 4: Opis' del: a) Prezidenta voennoi kollegii, general-fel'dmarshala grafa Nikolaia Ivanovicha Saltykova, b) Vitse-prezidenta Lamba i v) Korpusa byvshego v Gollandii (199, 200 i 153 opisi). St. Petersburg: Tip. I. N. Skorokhodova, 1893.
[IDC-R-9818]
The first four volumes of this series, with the designated opis' numbers, cover eighteenth-century materials.
Opis' kazach'ikh del Moskovskogo otdeleniia Obshchego arkhiva Glavnogo shtaba.
Compiled by I. I. Dmitrenko.
St. Petersburg, 1899. 538, 47 p.
[IDC-R-10,825]
A separate publication in the same general series as the above (b-129), this large volume covers the Cossack section of the archive for the documents dating from 1723–1812.
Opisi del Moskovskogo otdeleniia Obshchego arkhiva Glavnogo shtaba.
Compiled by N. P. Polikarpov.
8 (unnumbered) vols.
St. Petersburg, 1912–1913.
Op. 152. 1912. Op. 160. 1912. vii, 143, 543 p.
Op. 161a i 161b. 1912. vii, 106, 566 p. Op. 291 (11a). 1912. vii, 240, 752 p.
Op. 292 (9a). 1912. vii, 51, 136 p. Op. 293 (7a). 1913. vii, 67, 208 p.
Op. 133–136, 138–147. 1913. 2, vii, 60, 300 p.
Op. 208a, 208b, 208v i 208g. 1913. vii, 142, 500 p.
[IDC-R-9897]
A series of inventories covering early nineteenth-century records in the former Moscow Branch of the Russian Army General Staff Archive. The first volume covers records relating to the Imperial chancellery (1796–1812); op. 160 and op. 161 cover records of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich (1800–1932); op. 291 and 292 cover records of the Danubian Army (1809–1847); op. 293 covers the army of Barclay de Tolly and others (1813–1847); op. 133–136, and 138–147 cover records of the Army Inspector’s Department (1812–1816); and the final volume (op. 208a–g) covers records of the armies of Wittgenstein, Wintzingerode, and others (1812–1817). Some additional volumes in this series were prepared but their publication was not completed before World War I. A table available in RGVIA coordinates these opisi with current fond arrangement.
Katalog Voenno-uchenogo arkhiva Glavnogo upravleniia General'nogo shtaba.
Compiled by M. O. Bender.
Edited by Viv'en-de-Shatobren.
4 vols. 2d ed.
St. Petersburg: Tip. "Berezhlivost'," 1905–1914.
[IDC-R-10,824]
The inventories in these volumes, expanded from the first edition, cover some of the fonds from the former Military Science Archive (VUA). A new updated electronic catalogue is in preparation for the entire VUA holdings.
Suvorov Aleksandr Vasil'evich (1730–1800): Opis' dokumental'nykh materialov arkhivnogo fonda no. 43.
Edited by N. P. Shliapnikov.
Moscow: GAU, 1952. 76 p.
[IDC-R-10,740]
Covers materials dating from 1760 to 1820.