Russian Foreign Ministry archive official page. Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation (AFP RF)

The AVP of the Russian Federation was created from the very beginning as a departmental archive of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID), formed in November 1917 after the liquidation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire. In September 1917, during the evacuation of valuables from Petrograd, part of the documents from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire was transported to Moscow to the premises of the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, another part to the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in the former Novgorod province, and the third remained in Petrograd. Thus, after all government institutions moved from Petrograd to Moscow in March 1918, the NKID was faced with the need to create a new foreign policy archive.

It is known that the first People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, L.D. Trotsky, who headed the People's Commissariat from November 1917 to February 1918, was not directly involved in foreign affairs. Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin, who served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs from the beginning of March, and on May 30, 1918, was officially appointed People's Commissar, attached great importance to the safety of documents. Apparently, family upbringing, the atmosphere of the cultural noble environment that surrounded the future diplomat, and his own work in the archives of the Tsarist Ministry of Foreign Affairs had an impact here. G.V. Chicherin’s attitude towards the archive was expressed later in the form of a figurative comparison: “The NKID needs documents, just as the Red Army needs cartridges” Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation (hereinafter - AVPRF), f. 04, op. 59, p. 437, d. 57714, l. 33.

Therefore, it is no coincidence that the NKID archive arose precisely at the office of the People's Commissar as his personal archive, transformed after the NKID moved to the building on Kuznetsky Most in 1920 into the Current Political Archive. This is probably where the tradition of forming personal archival funds of the secretariats of people's commissars and their deputies came from, which then existed for almost 40 years.

In June 1920, for the first time, the General Archive of the NKID appeared as an independent structural unit in the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. It was headed by Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Adamov, who later received the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences and the title of professor for his numerous works on international law and the history of international relations - as an exception, without defending a candidate's and doctoral dissertation.

The responsibilities of the General Archive of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs included the collection, classification, processing and storage of unclassified correspondence from all six political departments of the People's Commissariat that existed at that time. The secret and telegraphic correspondence of the People's Commissar, as well as notes signed by him and his deputies, international treaties remained in the Current Political Archive at the Office of the People's Commissar. According to the decision of the NKID Collegium of October 27, 1922, the General Archive began to report directly to the secretariat of the NKID Collegium. Gradually his role increased. Already in October 1926, the Current Political Archive entered the General Archive as a subsection.

As the Soviet state expanded its comprehensive relations with the outside world and created diplomatic and consular missions abroad, the volume of documents received from abroad, which were temporarily stored directly in embassies and consular offices, increased. Acute political conflicts with a number of countries that arose in 1927 in connection with the assassination of the Soviet plenipotentiary in Warsaw

P.L. Voikov, employees of the USSR Consulate General in Canton (Guangzhou), a search by the British police in the premises of the Soviet-English joint stock company ARCOS, the subsequent severance of diplomatic relations with Great Britain and other similar facts prompted the leadership of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs to take care of greater safety of documents of Soviet foreign institutions. A commission was created, which included A.M. Kollontai, Y.H. Davtyan, I.I. Spilvanek. Members of the commission examined the situation in the General Archives and presented a report to the NKID board, which sharply criticized the current situation. It was indicated that the Archive is a warehouse of unassembled and unsystematized materials received for storage from abroad; there is no plan for processing these materials. WUA RF, f. 048, op. 33, p. 5, d. 15, l. 341-345.

Taking into account the decision of the commission, the NKID board made a decision on December 8, 1929 to combine all the documentary materials of the People's Commissariat, secret and general, into a single Political Archive. Ibid., l. 64.

In subsequent years, the activities of the Political Archive were repeatedly considered at meetings of the NKID Board, and decisions were made there aimed at further improving the archival service in close connection with the tasks of operational diplomatic work.

On April 19, 1936, Deputy People's Commissar B.S. Stomonyakov approved the first regulation on the Political Archive, which provided, along with the storage and recording of documents, including interstate treaties and agreements, authentic cartographic materials on the state borders of the USSR, the development of archival materials, the compilation of dossiers and certificates on issues of foreign policy of the USSR and its relations with foreign countries and much more. Right there, op. 14, p. 8, d. 2, l. 7-11.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Politarchive contained more than 500 thousand archival files, of which only a little more than one tenth were secret files. In connection with the decision of the Soviet government to evacuate government institutions from Moscow, including the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, the head of the Political Archive I.K. Zyabkin reported on June 27, 1941 to the General Secretary of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs A.A. Sobolev on the plan for the evacuation of archives, for which it was planned to split them into several groups. Materials of primary importance included genuine contractual acts (about 2 tons), notes and orders for the NKID (about 1 ton), archives of the secretariats of the People's Commissars and the NKID Collegium (about 6 tons), archives of the territorial departments of the central apparatus of the NKID, personal files of employees.

Politarchiv workers, working from morning until late at night, packed all the documents and materials of the first stage in four days, preparing them for evacuation. There wasn't enough containers. On July 2, 1941, the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs requested from the Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR an additional 200 boxes and 200 bags, and the next day - another 400 boxes.

On July 5, 1941, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR issued a decree according to which the People's Commissariats and institutions were ordered to take measures to unload archives of materials that were not subject to long-term storage. In accordance with this resolution, the NKID issued an order on July 7 to create a commission “to unload archives and current office work from materials that do not have operational and scientific-historical value.” The chairman of the commission was A.P. Pavlov, it also included G.N. Zarubin, I.K. Zyabkin, G.F. Saksin, V.N. Pavlov and others. All of them later became famous Soviet diplomats, and then only began their diplomatic career. The commission, mobilizing employees of the Archive and a number of other departments of the NKID, did this gigantic work in the shortest possible time, and the review of materials, their selection and registration for destruction were carried out in the most careful manner, without making allowances for the circumstances. For example, the entire unclassified fund of the Press Department for the years 1917-1941, which was not of particular value, was destroyed. Of course, there were also flaws, but they were more connected with the fact that the new generation of Soviet diplomats, “raised by the party,” was intolerant of their predecessors expelled from the NKID, the so-called “enemies of the people.” “It’s not enough to shoot you,” then-Deputy People’s Commissar Dekanozov, who came to the NKID from the NKVD and spoke with employees in his usual language, told the leaders of the Political Archive when he learned that Chicherin’s personal correspondence with foreign political and public figures had been destroyed.

By July 17, 1941, 510 boxes (about 26 tons) were packed and ready for shipment. The next day, July 18, the Evacuation Council issued an order signed by N.M. Shvernik, which, in particular, said:

"1. Allow the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs to evacuate a highly secret part of the Political Archive of the NKID from Moscow to the city of Melekess, Kuibyshev Region.

2. Oblige the Kuibyshev Regional Executive Committee to allocate appropriate premises to the NKID to house the archive.

3. Oblige the NKPS to allocate 6 cars to the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs for transporting the archive and the accompanying security. Krutitskaya E. Save for posterity. - Pages of courage, perseverance and heroism in the history of the Soviet diplomatic service, vol. V. M., 1969, p. 75.

On July 28, the first batch of archives arrived at their destination. The archive in Melekess was placed in the clubhouse of an organization called “Glavmuka,” and the diplomats who worked in the archive became “club employees” for outsiders. At the end of August, the rest of the archives arrived in Melekess.

In the fall, the central apparatus of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, headed by First Deputy People's Commissar A.Ya. Vyshinsky, moved to Kuibyshev (Samara). People's Commissar V.M. Molotov with a small team of employees remained in Moscow.

Work in the archive did not stop, despite the difficult conditions in which they had to work. In 1942 alone, more than 3.5 thousand archival files were sent to Kuibyshev from Melekess at the request of the NKID leadership. Scientific processing of the funds continued.

After the victory of the Red Army in the Battle of Kursk, the first batch of archival documents was returned to Moscow, and all other archives were returned in February 1944.

We must pay tribute to the military generation of archivists who, despite serious everyday and professional difficulties, managed to preserve the most valuable documentary materials for posterity.

In December 1945, in accordance with the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars, the Archive Directorate of the NKID of the USSR was created, which included the Political Archive. This government decision provided for a significant expansion of the functions of the archive service in connection with the general intensification of the foreign policy activities of the USSR after the end of the Great Patriotic War. New departments appeared within the Archival Department: scientific publishing, the Archive of Russian Foreign Policy, consisting of documents of the Collegium and the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 1720-1917, which were previously under the jurisdiction of the NKVD, and the Archive of Foreign States, created from those exported from Germany and other countries' so-called "trophy funds", which were later returned.

In March 1946, all People's Commissariats of the Soviet Union were renamed ministries.

In August 1958, the Archival Directorate was transformed into the Historical and Diplomatic Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which consisted of the USSR Foreign Policy Archive, the Russian Foreign Policy Archive, research and scientific publishing departments. The existing structure turned out to be stable and lasted for more than three decades. In 1992, the Historical and Diplomatic Directorate was transformed into the Historical and Documentary Directorate, and in 1993 into the Historical and Documentary Department of the Ministry.

The creation of the Historical and Diplomatic Directorate in 1958 coincided with a very significant event for the Archive of Foreign Policy of the USSR - the move to the new building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If earlier the Archive huddled in the basements of a house on Kuznetsky Most, where the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs was located, now it has moved to the risalit of a high-rise administrative building on Smolenskaya Square, to archive storage facilities specially equipped for this purpose. The safes in which the most important documents were stored could withstand fire for 48 hours, according to the manufacturer. Thus, the Archive received first-class premises for those times.

Unfortunately, the then leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs failed to foresee the information “boom” that, over the course of several years, “ate up” the existing insignificant reserve of archival storage space. Already in the mid-60s, the question arose about the construction of a new building for the Archives. After numerous petitions and approvals, funds were allocated for the construction of a new building.

However, instead of a 12-story building, as planned, it was proposed to build an eight-story archive building in order to save money. It was even planned to move into this building the Archive of Foreign Policy of the USSR and the Archive of Foreign Policy of Russia, the documents of which were located in a separate building on the street. B. Serpukhovskaya, 15. The merger of two archives would create unimaginable conditions for work. Only thanks to the energy and perseverance of the staff of the Historical and Diplomatic Department, this ill-conceived action was prevented and the archive premises on Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya were preserved. The construction of the new building lasted for 10 years, during which time archival technology advanced.

In the summer of 1977, the first hundreds of thousands of cases were moved to the new building at 11 Plotnikov Lane. The remaining cases were transported in the summer of the following year. Enormous physical work was done, mainly by women employees of the Archive, deeply devoted to their work. At the same time, the current operational activities of the Archive were not interrupted for a single day.

In the late 1980s, as glasnost and openness in foreign policy gained momentum, the need to provide researchers with access to Foreign Office archival materials became increasingly pressing.

Issues related to the declassification of archival documents are regulated by a number of legislative acts of the Russian Federation** In particular, this refers to the Law of the Russian Federation on State Secrets of July 21, 1993 No. 5485-I as amended and supplemented by July 18, 2010; The fundamentals of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the Archival Fund of the Russian Federation and archives, etc., are within the competence of the Federal Archival Agency, federal and departmental archives, and the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets.

Since 1992, the WUA of the USSR began to be called the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation.

Currently, in the WUA of the Russian Federation, several large groups of materials can be named, which are listed in 1873 funds. The funds are numbered in accordance with the order in which they were originally listed on the List of Funds.

Collection "International Treaty Acts". This collection has been developing since the creation of the Political Archive and began to grow especially quickly after the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a resolution on March 2, 1951, entrusting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the responsibility for permanent storage of authentic international treaty acts. This depository function is assigned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Law of the Russian Federation “On International Treaties”

dated June 15, 1995. The collection consists of three parts: bilateral treaty acts, multilateral treaty acts with the participation of the Russian Federation (USSR) and documents on the demarcation and re-demarcation of the state border. Materials from this collection are not issued to the reading room, so as not to break the seals that seal them. Most of the treaties are published in the Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation, and were previously published in the series “Collections of existing treaties” and “International treaties”, published by the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The next group of materials are the funds of the secretariats of ministers (people's commissars), their deputies, members of the NKID Collegium, materials and resolutions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Collegium (NKID). These funds, formed mainly in the 20-40s of the last century - the funds of G.V. Chicherin, L.M. Karakhan, M.M. Litvinov, N.N. Krestinsky and others - contain rich correspondence on the subjects they supervised countries.

In the fund of the secretariat of the Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs S.A. Lozovsky from 1939 to 1946, numbering more than 1,700 cases, one can find notes from the NKID to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, memos to the People's Commissar, recordings of his conversations with foreigners, as well as recordings of conversations of other senior officials NKID, musical correspondence with foreign diplomatic representatives in Moscow, mainly from the countries of the East, which he supervised, reports and bulletins of the NKID Press Department, information on various foreign policy issues, correspondence of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), USSR Academy of Sciences, Union of Societies Red Cross and Red Crescent (SORC), Union of Soviet Writers, etc.

Along with correspondence on general issues, this fund contains materials on individual countries, for example, documents on the steps of the Egyptian government to establish diplomatic relations with the USSR in 1943, on cooperation with China in 1945 and on the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Song Jingwen to Moscow, about the inter-union control mechanism for Japan, etc.

Not all the issues that S.A. Lozovsky had to deal with are mentioned here. The range of his interests was very wide and also covered the countries of Europe and the Far East.

A significantly larger number of archival files and, accordingly, documents on various issues are stored in the funds of the secretariats of those ministers who were in office for a longer time. Thus, in the fund of the secretariat of G.V. Chicherin there are over 9 thousand cases, in the fund of the secretariat of M.M. Litvinov - about 3 thousand cases, in the fund of the secretariat of V.M. Molotov - over 12 thousand cases. The formation of secretarial funds continued until the mid-50s. The General Secretariat, recreated in 1957, no longer concentrated in its fund the varied palette of documents that was characteristic of the funds of the minister and his deputies.

The funds of territorial departments contain materials on specific countries. The names of the departments (for example, the First European Department, the Second Asian Department, etc.) and the number of countries they include may change, but the files of the reference or department for a particular country continue to be archived according to a strictly defined inventory in the order chronology. For each of the countries with which the Russian Federation, the legal successor of the USSR, maintains diplomatic relations, a fund is formed, which consists of secret and unclassified documents. The number of cases varies depending on the country and the activity of foreign policy relations, but the principle of creating archival cases remains general.

Let's take the reference fund for Norway as an example. It contains files reflecting the progress of negotiations on concluding a trade agreement between Russia and Norway in 1920-1921, draft concession agreements, documents on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1924. There are materials on negotiations on various issues, in particular on neutrality and non-aggression pacts concluded in the 20s and 30s. Documents from the Second World War period testify to the joint struggle of the two peoples against fascism and the liberation of Northern Norway by Soviet troops. Archival materials from the post-war years reflect Soviet policy in connection with Norway's accession to NATO. There are documents on trade and economic cooperation, in particular between the northern regions of the two countries.

Some departments that do not have clearly directed regional studies structures and perform purely intra-ministerial functions submit their materials to the Archive for other reasons. For example, personal files of employees are submitted by the Human Resources Department using the appropriate numbers. The Historical and Documentary Department or the Department of State Protocol have their own specifics in the formation of archival files. This also includes the Legal Department, Monetary and Financial Department, etc. As a rule, archival files of these departments are not given to researchers.

The next category of archival materials are embassy funds. The funds of the embassies of the Russian Federation abroad are formed directly at the embassies and are constantly replenished. There are so-called “dead funds”, i.e. funds of those embassies that have ceased to exist, for example, the embassy in the GDR. At the same time, former “dead funds”, for example, in the Baltic countries, came to life again. Currently, the materials of the embassy funds, due to the improvement of communications, are somewhat poorer compared to the past. But still, many documents can only be found there. The embassy funds contain musical correspondence with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the host country and embassies of third countries, correspondence on economic and cultural issues, student exchange, etc.

In many embassies, documents such as a chronicle of events and reviews of the press of the host country are compiled. Considering that it is not always possible to find newspapers in our libraries, for example, from Bolivia or Singapore, press reviews made by embassy employees are very valuable for Russian researchers.

By the nature of the documentation, the funds of the embassy funds are also related to the funds of the representative offices of the Russian Federation at international organizations, in particular at the UN (New York), the UN European Office (Geneva), UNESCO (Paris), etc.

Consular offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs abroad may be of interest to those researchers who are engaged not so much in the study of big politics, but in the study of the details of bilateral relations or the history of a particular country. In this regard, I would like to mention the documents of consular offices of the 20s. It was in one of them that N.K.’s autographs were discovered. Roerich.

The funds of international meetings and conferences contain documents not only of our delegations, but also official materials of various bodies of the organizations themselves, for example, the Peace Conference in Brest-Litovsk in 1918, the Genoa Conference in 1922, the Disarmament Conference within the League of Nations in 1932, Tehran , the Yalta and Potsdam conferences of heads of state and government during the Second World War, the conference on the development of the Charter and the creation of the UN in San Francisco, the Paris Peace Conference of 1947, etc.

Each archive is proud of its rarities. The Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Federation is also proud of its rare, unique documents, which stores the autographs of many state and political figures of the USSR and Russia, as well as other countries of the world (I.V. Stalin, N.S. Khrushchev, F.D. Roosevelt, Sh . de Gaulle, W. Churchill, etc.). Many interesting finds associated with the names of famous writers, scientists and musicians (M. Gorky, S. Yesenin, A. Einstein, F. Chaliapin, etc.) were discovered in the WUA of the Russian Federation.

One of the activities of the Archive is the collection of materials of personal origin related to the history of Soviet and Russian diplomacy. Now the Archive already has 142 personal funds of diplomats of different generations. There are materials reflecting the activities of G.V. Chicherin, V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko, A.M. Kollontai, Ya.Z. Surits, Ya.A. Berzin, S.S. Aleksandrovsky.

Thanks to the son of S.I. Aralov, Mstislav Semenovich Aralov, who preserved his father’s documents, we became the owners of previously unknown autographs of G.V. Chicherin, ambassadors Y.H. Davtyan, L.M. Karakhan, F.F. Raskolnikov, M.M. .Slavutsky, Soviet painter and graphic artist E. Lansere and many others.

Evgenia Nikolaevna Menshikova transferred for permanent state storage to the AVP of the Russian Federation materials related to the life and activities of her husband, the USSR Ambassador to a number of countries and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR M.A. Menshikov. He is the author of the most interesting memoirs about India, Jawaharlal Nehru. A man of the most diverse interests, M.A. Menshikov collected a whole library, which contains books on history, philosophy and art. Among the materials of this personal fund are autographs of various political and public figures, for example, the unique autograph of Rabindranath Tagore.

Materials from personal funds - memories, correspondence, posters and certificates, anniversary medals, photographs - in contrast to ordinary official documents stored in the Archive, have a vivid illustrative and emotional quality. They provide an opportunity to feel the spirit of the era.

The documents and materials stored in the WUA of the Russian Federation, covering a relatively short historical period, represent a truly priceless asset, without which it is impossible to study all the nuances and turns in Soviet foreign policy.

An important feature of the WUA of the Russian Federation is that it has always been and remains a structural unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and carries out tasks closely linked to the operational activities of the Ministry.

Currently, the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, located in two buildings - on Smolenskaya-Sennaya, 32/34 and in Plotnikov lane, 11 - has more than 26 km of shelves on which about 1,500 thousand storage units are located.

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation (AFP RF)

G. Chicherin Foundation

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 04. 1920. Op. 51. P. 327. D. 55030.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 04. 1921/1922. Op. 51. P. 330. D. 55072.

M. Litvinov Foundation

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 05. 1937. Op. 17. P. 129. D. 30.

V. Molotov Foundation

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 06. 1939. Op. 1. P. 1. D. 4.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 06. 1941. Op. 3. P. 8. D. 82.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 06. 1942. Op. 4. P. 16. D. 163–166.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 06. 1943. Op. 5. P. 20. D. 215.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 06. 1943. Op. 25. P. 208. D. 6.

L. Karakhan Foundation

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 08. 1933. Op. 16. P. 153. D. 9.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 08. 1933. Op. 16. P. 154. D. 25.

N. Krestinsky Foundation

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 10. 1934. Op. 9. P. 36. D. 19.

V. Dekanozov Foundation

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 012. 1939. Op. 1. P. 3. D. 28.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 012. 1941. Op. 2a. P. 25. D. 241.

S. Lozovsky Foundation

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 013a. 1940. Op. 2. P. 2. D. 20.

S. Kavtaradze Foundation

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 015. 1945. Op. 3. P. 4. D. 1.

Personal archive of Ambassador L. Stark

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. Personal archive of L. Stark. 1929. Op. 13. P. 4. D. 5.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. Personal archive of L. Stark. 1930. Op. 13. P. 4. D. 5.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. Personal archive of L. Stark. 1932. Op. 14. P. 4. D. 1.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. Personal archive of L. Stark. 1931. Op. 15. P. 5. D. 1.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. Personal archive of L. Stark. 1932. Op. 16. P. 5. D. 2.

References on Afghanistan

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1919–1920. Op. 1. P. 101. D. 1, 4.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1919–1920. Op. 2. P. 102. D. 2, 3.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1921. Op. 3. P. 103. D. 1.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1921. Op. 3. P. 105. D. 20.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1934. Op. 16. P. 170. D. 3.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1936. Op. 16. P. 170. D. 3.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1935–1936. Op. 16. P. 173. D. 20.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1936–1937. Op. 17. P. 129. L. 30.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1935. Op. 17. P. 177. D. 29.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1936. Op. 18. P. 178. D. 3.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1937–1938. Op. 20. P. 185. D. 3.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1938. Op. 20. P. 185. D. 3, 4.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1939. Op. 21. P. 189. D. 4, 6.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1939. Op. 21. P. 190. D. 17.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1940. Op. 22. P. 192. D. 4.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1940. Op. 22. P. 193. D. 12.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1941. Op. 23. P. 195. D. 2.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1941. Op. 23. P. 196. D. 4, 5, 6, 8.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1941. Op. 23. P. 197. D. 9.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1941. Op. 28. P. 39. D. 1.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1942. Op. 24. P. 199. D. 2.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1942. Op. 24. P. 200. D. 8, 9, 14.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1942–1943. Op. 25. P. 203. D. 5.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1943. Op. 25. P. 203. D. 5, 6.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1943. Op. 25. P. 205. D. 30.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1943. Op. 26. P. 206. D. 4, 5.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1944. Op. 26a. P. 208. D. 2.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1945. Op. 27. P. 208. D. 2.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 071. 1946. Op. 28. P. 210. D. 2, 4.

References for India

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 090. 1919. Op. 2. P. 1. D. 1.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 090. 1920. Op. 3. P. 1. D. 2, 3.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 090. 1920. Op. 3. P. 2. D. 7, 9.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 090. 1921. Op. 4. P. 2. D. 1, 4.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 090. 1923. Op. 6. P. 5. D. 2.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 90. 1940. Op. 14. P. 141. D. 141.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 90. 1941. Op. 8. P. 4a. D. 1.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 90. 1941. Op. 8. P. 49. D. 1.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 56-b. 1936–1937. Op. 14. P. 139. D. 15, 16.

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 56-b. 1940. Op. 14. P. 141. D. 25.

References for Germany

WUA of the Russian Federation. F. 082. 1940. Op. 23. P. 95. D. 5.