State Archive of the Russian Federation
The State Archive of the Russian Federation is a large Russian state archive managed by Rosarkhiv. It houses documents from the highest bodies of Russian authority, including:
- some official documents relating to the history of the Russian Empire
- personal records
- official documents of the supreme national legislative and executive institutions of the Russian Provisional Government
- records of Soviet Russia as an independent state and as a territorial entity of the USSR
- archives of the Soviet Union
- records of the Russian Federation
- documents from many other sources
- the Central State Archive of the October Revolution
- the Central State Archive of the Russian SFSR .